[CMUBDC] Ballroom Summer Lessons - Week of May 12th, 2025

[CMU Ballroom Dance Club]

Hello Ballroom Friends,

This Monday, we have lessons taught by our Standard/Smooth professional
instructor, Christine Zona. On Wednesday, we have student-taught veteran
lessons. Christine’s lessons are $100 an hour, split evenly between the
students.

Our Latin/Rhythm professional instructor, Dmitry Demidov, will begin
teaching summer lessons on Wednesday, June 4.


Reminders for this week - More details below!

- Join the #summer-2025 channel on Slack if you are here over summer! We
will coordinate social events over the summer on this channel. Join the
slack by clicking this link!
<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-34jz67dzn-N5sIDQeSZuKpIVe3zZddeA>
If you run into issues joining the Slack, please reach out to us.

Weekly Lesson Schedule


Monday 05/12 – Studio Theater

Standard

5:30 - 6:00

Int 1 and 2

Smooth

6:00 - 6:30

Smooth 1

Standard

6:30 - 7:30

Newcomer

7:30 - 8:00

Int 3 and Gold

Smooth

8:00 - 8:30

Smooth 2

Rounds

8:30 - 9:00

Rounds



Wednesday 05/14 – Studio Theater

Practice Space

5:00 - 7:00

Smooth Tango (Chase and TBD)


7:00 - 7:45

Cha Cha (Chase and TBD)


7:50 - 8:35

Rounds

8:35 - 9:00

Community Events

   -

   USA Dance: Cinco de Mayo. Saturday, May 17. 7–10:30pm. Coraopolis VFW
   (412 Mulberry St, Coraopolis, PA)
   -

      7:00 ~ salsa lesson (Chris Drum)
      -

      8:00 ~ ballroom dancing (DJ Chris Drum)
      -

      $5 students / $15 USA Dance members / $20 non-members
      -

   Apasionado Dance: Casino Bachata with DJ Tay. Saturday, May 17.
   8:30pm–12:30am. Wightman School (5604 Solway Street) Room 306
   -

      Beginner Casino lesson at 8:30 ($4)
      -

      Beginner Bachata lesson with Jessica Taylor at 9:00 ($4)
      -

      Dance 9:30pm ($12)


Need a ride? Just drop a message in #dance-the-night-away on Slack!

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>

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!

Helen, Brenna, Aditya, Kyr, Shakira, Isaiah, Karishma, & Sefi
https://linktr.ee/cmubdt – cmuballroom at gmail.com
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