[CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of February 3rd, 2025

Sun Feb 2 23:54:09 EST 2025

Hello Ballroom Friends,

Congratulations to everyone who competed at the Penn State Snowball this
weekend! You all looked amazing!

If you missed it and are still interested in competing, don’t forget to
sign up for the Big Apple Dance Competition at Columbia University in New
York! Late registration is due by tomorrow, Monday February 3rd. Practice
spaces are also back to normal this week for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Reminders for this week (02/3-02/9) - More details below!

General:

- We are starting to take semester lesson payments! Check, Cash, or Cashnet
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_1T5WMRG1t8QDjebvwHMo8VPniSbSbFHah879Vw22g/edit?usp=sharing>
!

- Sign up for BADC by Wednesday, Feb 5 (Late registration)

- Veterans: If you are interested in teaching, please sign up using the form
<https://forms.gle/6WsnLivHASxLSAwD6>!

- Join the slack by clicking this link!
<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-2h427oryv-q~Y_rbzhxEuZLWKmrOrgYQ>

Payment Information:

We hope you are having a great time taking lessons with us! Your first two
lessons (excluding rush) are free. After that, we ask that students pay $40
and non-students pay $90 in membership dues. This amount covers all the
lessons we offer for the entire Spring semester.

BADC:
This February we are attending the Big Apple Dancesport Challenge (BADC),
which is hosted by Columbia University in New York City! This competition
will take place during the weekend of February 14-16, and we are so excited
to see all of you there. Please sign up if you’d like to join us! Regular
registration closed last week but you can still register late until Monday,
February 3rd. Please register as soon as possible so that we can arrange
housing and travel arrangements for you.

Exciting news! Thanks to donations made by CMUBDC alumni on Giving CMU Day, we
are able to reduce the registration fees for BADC. If you signed up by the
Wednesday deadline, you owe $30 for 3+ entries as a student. Non-students
pay $60 for 3+ entries. If you register late, the fees increase to $50 and
$75 respectively. BADC fees are due Wednesday, February 12th.

To be registered both the individual
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and partnership
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4oU8EbqvDd02Q4ZMO26uxw0JX0nmnupMQhVfk7Rla9qmOkA/viewform?usp=sf_link>
commitment
forms should be filled out by Monday, February 3rd.

Weekly Lesson Schedule (Newcomer lessons highlighted!)

Mondays 02/03 – Rangos

Professional-Taught Standard

Standard Int 3 Lesson

5:20-5:55

Standard Int 2 Lesson

5:55-6:30

Standard Int 1 Lesson

6:30-7:05

Standard Adv Lesson

7:05-7:40

Standard Newcomer Lesson

7:40-8:10

Rounds

International Rounds

8:10-8:30

American Rounds

8:30-8:40

Veteran-Taught Lessons

Veteran-taught Smooth Tango

8:40-9:05

Veteran-taught Standard Quickstep

9:05-9:30

Professional-Taught Social Dance

Jitterbug

9:30-10:00

Polka

10:00-10:30

Wednesday 02/05 – Peter Wright McKenna

Professional-Taught Standard

Rhythm Lesson

5:20-5:55

Latin Int 2 Lesson

5:55-6:30

Latin Int 1 Lesson

6:30-7:05

Latin Adv Lesson

7:05-7:40

Latin Newcomer Lesson

7:40-8:10

Rounds

International Rounds

8:10-8:30

American Rounds

8:30-8:40

Veteran-Taught Lessons

Veteran-taught Lesson (TBD)

8:40-9:05

Veteran-taught Rhythm Rumba

9:05-9:30

Professional-Taught Social Dance

Jitterbug

9:30-10:00

Merengue

10:00-10:30

Practice Space

Friday

5:30-7:00pm

Keeler

Saturday

12:15-1:30pm

Kenner

Sunday

10:00-11:30am

Kenner

Reminder Details

Veteran Teaching:

If you are an upper level veteran and are are interested in teaching
veteran-taught lessons for the upcoming semester (for a lesson discount!),
here is the form you can fill out: https://forms.gle/6WsnLivHASxLSAwD6

Community Events

   -

   USA Dance Pittsburgh, February 15
   -

      Come to Arthur Murray - Robsinson to dance with the Pittsburgh
      chapter of USA Dance!
      -

   CMU Social, February 22 (6pm)
   -

      Come dance with us for a fun social and Jack & Jill mini competition
      hosted in Rangos!

Resources

Slack:

The slack channel is a group chat where we talk about all things ballroom.
Ex: coordinating groups for dance outings, finding people to practice with
for the weekend, or reporting a lost item. We also use this to communicate
about competitions, especially travel and timelines.  Join the slack by
clicking this link!
<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-2h427oryv-q~Y_rbzhxEuZLWKmrOrgYQ>

Google Calendar:
Click this link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YjYyOWVzNDVsZ2w2ZW0wNzM0ZjVpcWNibGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>
to add our google calendar and stay updated on lessons, practices, socials
and more fun events!

This week’s most meme-ingful message

Happy Dancing!

Erin, Brenna, Aditya, Kyr, Peter, Sasha, Isaiah, & Karishma
https://linktr.ee/cmubdt – cmuballroom at gmail.com
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