[CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of October 20, 2025

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On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM CMU Ballroom Dance Club <ballroom-general at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:ballroom-general at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:

Hello Ballroom Friends,

Welcome back! We hope you had a relaxing Fall Break and you’re feeling refreshed. ✨ Rochester Dancesport Festival lands THIS weekend! Costume rounds this Monday and Wednesday — bring your outfits! Let’s bring the energy and light up the floor! 💃🕺

  *   Sign up to go apple picking<https://forms.gle/R8PuAP8nddSxrpS19> with the club on Saturday, November 1! The form is due Wednesday, October 29.

  *   Join our group ballroom dance shoe order here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYFkI2-hvFyf7zHnVb3yI9e7taT2LRyUnyB0wQk-gVf2YuAw/viewform>! The form is due Thursday, October 23.

  *   New to Ballroom?

     *   Beginner lessons run Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:40 PM. See this week’s lesson schedule below!

     *   Join our Slack channel using this link<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-34jz67dzn-N5sIDQeSZuKpIVe3zZddeA>!

     *   Follow us on Instagram @cmuballroom<https://www.instagram.com/cmuballroom/>!

  *   We are now taking semester membership dues! Cash, check, or Cashnet<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_1T5WMRG1t8QDjebvwHMo8VPniSbSbFHah879Vw22g/edit?usp=sharing>! Your first two lesson days are free (excluding Rush). After that, it’s just a one-time payment for the whole semester of lessons twice a week: $40 for students and $90 for the general public. Please forward CashNet receipts to cmuballroom at gmail.com<mailto:cmuballroom at gmail.com>.

  *   Interested in competing with us? On the comp team, you’ll learn more dances, improve faster, and have a lot of fun together in a supportive community. See the Competition Team section below for more details

     *   Please Note: Registration for our last competition, DCDI, is due THIS Monday, October 20th!

  *   Practice Space We won’t have our usual practice space this weekend — instead, we’ll be going to Rochester Dancesport Festival!

Weekly Lesson Schedule (Newcomer Lessons Highlighted)

Monday 10/20 – Peter Wright Mckenna (CUC 2nd floor)

Professional-

Taught Standard

Int 3 Lesson

5:20-5:55

Int 2 Lesson

5:55-6:30

Int 1 Lesson

6:30-7:05

Adv Lesson

7:05-7:40

Newcomer Lesson

7:40-8:10

Costume Rounds

International Rounds

8:10-8:30

American Rounds

8:35-8:55

Veteran-Taught Lessons

American Foxtrot

8:55-9:30

Professional-

Taught Social Dance

Nightclub 2-step

9:30-10:30



Wednesday 10/22 – Peter Wright Mckenna (CUC 2nd floor)

Professional-

Taught Latin/Rhythm

Rhythm Lesson

5:20-5:55

Int 2 Lesson

5:55-6:30

Int 1 Lesson

6:30-7:05

Adv Lesson

7:05-7:40

Newcomer Lesson

7:40-8:10

Costume Rounds

International Rounds

8:10-8:30

American Rounds

8:35-8:55

Veteran-Taught Lessons

American Swing

8:55-9:30

Professional-

Taught Social Dance

Bachata

9:30-10:30


Competition Team

If you have any questions about competing or want to be added to our comp team slack channel message Kyr via slack or 904-827-3211!

  *   Fall competitions (in date order)

     *   Rochester Dancesport Festival (Rochester, New York — October 25–26)      THIS WEEKEND!!!

     *   DC DanceSport Inferno (University of Maryland — November 8–9)

        *   Last competition of the semester

        *   An Intercollegiate and Adult Open Amateur DanceSport Festival hosted by Ballroom at Maryland at the University of Maryland

        *   Registration: Individual Commitment Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDi7sAJuunM8N37-q8546VsIRQVEqiC4B9s4qF5-ZjyrzXCg/viewform> and the Partnership Registration Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMpM825Vx6u3S8hGW05BDKWBX28AowMXK28A8THiEoLQ1T8w/viewform>

           *   Regular Deadline: Monday, 10/20


Practice Spaces

Thursday 10/23

7:00 - 9:00pm

CUC Activities Room

Mentoring Sessions (Thursdays/Weekends): Sign up at this link<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/186j8eao4HpN1bw-AXooxdMTM42T-8eG_6u3vNCBod_c/edit?gid=0#gid=0>. Open to any level and any style!



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-34jz67dzn-N5sIDQeSZuKpIVe3zZddeA>

     *   For competition news and updates, join our #comp-team channel on Slack by messaging our comp team captain, Kyr!

  *   Instagram: Follow us on Instagram @cmuballroom<https://www.instagram.com/cmuballroom/>!

  *   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!

  *   Board Meeting Minutes<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/0AL20pKu-etjXUk9PVA/18HnvKqh2U5yL7FTpl59rb8zwvhdx_77i/1sOrHnJU8zwIB40vaH3B1TGuvXjvkQ37x/1I6TAsiKwK0J4OUtbjwg9LAKo3ZIdIHgm?dmr=1&ec=wgc-drive-hero-goto&sort=13&direction=a>

  *   Code of Conduct<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1eELxRPItFmEuzwUIvN8Z9rWSlTw9qmhzZu283nslQ/edit?usp=sharing>


This week’s most meme-ingful message

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Happy Dancing!

Helen, Brenna, Aditya, Kyr, Shakira, Isaiah, Karishma, & Sefi

https://linktr.ee/cmubdt – cmuballroom at gmail.com<mailto:cmuballroom at gmail.com>
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