From ballroom-summer-26 at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sun Jul 5 23:36:43 2026 From: ballroom-summer-26 at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (CMU Ballroom Dance Club) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 23:36:43 -0400 Subject: [CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of July 6, 2026 Message-ID: Hello Ballroom Friends! ?? We are pleased to announce that, for the rest of the summer, we will be running purpose-built Newcomer lessons on Wednesdays at 6pm! If you?re not feeling confident enough or don?t wish to pay for our professional-taught classes, these veteran-taught Newcomer lessons are a great place to start. Join us for Bolero this Wednesday if you?re interested! For any of our newer mailees, do note that CMUBDC has a slack where we have local event postings, past recordings, and a special channel just for you summer dancers! - Upcoming Events & Reminders - Summer Lessons - Our last day of summer lessons will be one month from now: Wednesday, August 5. Weekly Lesson Schedule - On a typical summer Monday, Christine will be joining us from 6:00?9:00pm. On a typical summer Wednesday, Dmitry will teach two lessons?one from 6:30?7:15pm, one from 7:20?8:05pm. - Here is what our terms mean: - Professional-taught lessons: Classes taught by our professional instructors, Christine Zona and Dmitry Demidov - Rounds: Short, music-to-music practice blocks by style and level, similar to a mini-competition - Workshops, rounds, and practice spaces are open to dancers of all levels! Monday 07/06 ? Rangos 3 Practice Space 5:00 - 6:00 Standard Int 2 6:00 - 6:30 Smooth 2 6:30 - 7:00 Standard Int 1 7:00 - 7:30 Smooth 1 7:30 - 8:00 Standard Int 3/Adv 8:00 - 8:30 Smooth 3/Adv 8:30 - 9:00 Rounds 9:00 - 9:30 Wednesday 07/08 ? Studio Theater Practice Space 5:00 - 6:30 (NEW TIMESLOT) Jive Newcomer Lesson 6:00 - 6:30 Jive w/ Dmitry 6:30 - 7:15 Mambo w/ Dmitry 7:20 - 8:05 Rounds 8:10 - 8:30 Practice Space 8:30 - 10:00 Dmitry's summer schedule: Practice Spaces By popular demand, we are instating practice space at approximately our usual times over the summer! With the exception of May 23 and 24, these are the times and locations we have reserved through to August: Thursday 7/09 6:30 - 8:00pm CUC Kenner Studio Saturday 7/11 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio Sunday 7/12 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio 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! - For competition news and updates, join our #comp-team channel on Slack by messaging our comp team captain, Sefi! - Instagram: Follow us on Instagram @cmuballroom ! - Google Calendar: Click this link to add our Google Calendar and stay updated on lessons, practices, socials and more fun events! - Board Meeting Minutes - Code of Conduct - Harassment Form : If you experience or witness any inappropriate behavior at our events, you can report it to us confidentially. This week?s most meme-ingful message [image: Screenshot 2026-06-28 225545.png] -- Happy Dancing! Aditya, Brenna, Edward, Helen, Karishma, Kyr, Sefi, Shakira, Trishla, & Victoria https://linktr.ee/cmubdt ? cmuballroom at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Weekly Lesson Schedule - On a typical summer Monday, Christine will be joining us from 6:00?9:00pm. On a typical summer Wednesday, Dmitry will teach two lessons?one from 6:30?7:15pm, one from 7:20?8:05pm. - Here is what our terms mean: - Professional-taught lessons: Classes taught by our professional instructors, Christine Zona and Dmitry Demidov - Rounds: Short, music-to-music practice blocks by style and level, similar to a mini-competition - Workshops, rounds, and practice spaces are open to dancers of all levels! Monday 07/13 ? Rangos 3 Standard/Smooth Int 2 7:00 - 7:30 Standard/Smooth Int 1 7:30 - 8:00 Standard/Smooth Int 3/Adv 8:00 - 8:30 Rounds 8:30 - 9:00 Wednesday 07/15 ? NO ACTIVITIES Dmitry's summer schedule: [image: image.png] Practice Spaces By popular demand, we are instating practice space at approximately our usual times over the summer! With the exception of May 23 and 24, these are the times and locations we have reserved through to August: Thursday 7/16 6:30 - 8:00pm CUC Kenner Studio Saturday 7/18 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio Sunday 7/19 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio 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! - For competition news and updates, join our #comp-team channel on Slack by messaging our comp team captain, Sefi! - Instagram: Follow us on Instagram @cmuballroom ! - Google Calendar: Click this link to add our Google Calendar and stay updated on lessons, practices, socials and more fun events! - Board Meeting Minutes - Code of Conduct - Harassment Form : If you experience or witness any inappropriate behavior at our events, you can report it to us confidentially. This week?s most meme-ingful message [image: image.png] -- Happy Dancing! Edward, Helen, Sefi, Serena, & Victoria https://linktr.ee/cmubdt ? cmuballroom at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 298552 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 2880230 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ballroom-summer-26 at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jul 20 08:00:00 2026 From: ballroom-summer-26 at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (CMU Ballroom Dance Club) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Subject: [CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of July 20, 2026 Message-ID: Hello Ballroom Friends! ?? This is your third-to-last week of summer lessons! Preparations for the fall rush and lesson season are underway. - Upcoming Events & Reminders - Summer Lessons - Jamie and Jamie will be joining us for Newcomer lessons this week! Be sure to catch them at the Studio Theater this Wednesday. - We?re on the home stretch! Our last day of summer lessons will be Wednesday, August 5. The first day of Rush will be Monday, August 24th. For those of you staying in Pittsburgh, we hope to see you there! - Fall Competitions - We?re excited to announce that we have a confirmed list of competitions that we will be attending as a team! They are: Carnegie Classic (October 10); the OSU Dancesport Classic (October 23); and the DC Dancesport Inferno at UMD (November 7?8). (Huh?all red-themed universities. Conspiracy . . . ) Information for these competitions will go out on our school-year mailing list, as well as in our slack . If you are interested in competing with us in the fall, be sure to join the latter and ask secretary Eddie ejli at andrew.cmu.edu to add you to the former! Weekly Lesson Schedule - On a typical summer Monday, Christine will be joining us from 6:00?9:00pm. On a typical summer Wednesday, Dmitry will teach two lessons?one from 6:30?7:15pm, one from 7:20?8:05pm. - Here is what our terms mean: - Professional-taught lessons: Classes taught by our professional instructors, Christine Zona and Dmitry Demidov - Rounds: Short, music-to-music practice blocks by style and level, similar to a mini-competition - Workshops, rounds, and practice spaces are open to dancers of all levels! Monday 07/20 ? Rangos 3 Practice Space 5:00 - 6:00 Standard Int 2 6:00 - 6:30 Smooth 2 6:30 - 7:00 Standard Int 1 7:00 - 7:30 Smooth 1 7:30 - 8:00 Standard Int 3/Adv 8:00 - 8:30 Smooth 3/Adv 8:30 - 9:00 Rounds 9:00 - 9:30 Wednesday 07/22 ? Studio Theater Practice Space 5:00 - 6:00 Cha Cha Newcomer Lesson (Jamie and Jamie!) 6:00 - 6:30 International Cha Cha w/ Dmitry 6:30 - 7:15 American Cha Cha w/ Dmitry 7:20 - 8:05 Rounds 8:10 - 8:30 Practice Space 8:30 - 10:00 Dmitry's summer schedule: [image: image.png] Practice Spaces By popular demand, we are instating practice space at approximately our usual times over the summer! With the exception of May 23 and 24, these are the times and locations we have reserved through to August: Thursday 7/23 6:30 - 8:00pm CUC Kenner Studio Saturday 7/25 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio Sunday 7/26 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio 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! - For competition news and updates, join our #comp-team channel on Slack by messaging our comp team captain, Sefi! - Instagram: Follow us on Instagram @cmuballroom ! - Google Calendar: Click this link to add our Google Calendar and stay updated on lessons, practices, socials and more fun events! - Board Meeting Minutes - Code of Conduct - Harassment Form : If you experience or witness any inappropriate behavior at our events, you can report it to us confidentially. This week?s most meme-ingful message [image: image.png] -- Happy Dancing! Aditya, Brenna, Edward, Helen, Karishma, Kyr, Sefi, Shakira, Trishla, & Victoria https://linktr.ee/cmubdt ? cmuballroom at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is primarily intended for school-year students who have already taken Newcomer or Int 1 (Bronze-level) lessons; even if you haven?t, you are welcome to attend to get a sense of the curriculum! - We?re on the home stretch! Our last day of summer lessons will be Wednesday, August 5. The first day of Rush will be Monday, August 24th. For those of you staying in Pittsburgh, we hope to see you there! - Fall Competitions - We?re excited to announce that we have a confirmed list of competitions that we will be attending as a team! They are: Carnegie Classic (October 10); the OSU Dancesport Classic (October 23); and the DC Dancesport Inferno at UMD (November 7?8). Information for these competitions will go out on our school-year mailing list, as well as in our slack . If you are interested in competing with us in the fall, be sure to join the latter and ask secretary Eddie ejli at andrew.cmu.edu to add you to the former! Weekly Lesson Schedule - On a typical summer Monday, Christine will be joining us from 6:00?9:00pm. On a typical summer Wednesday, Dmitry will teach two lessons?one from 6:30?7:15pm, one from 7:20?8:05pm. - Here is what our terms mean: - Professional-taught lessons: Classes taught by our professional instructors, Christine Zona and Dmitry Demidov - Rounds: Short, music-to-music practice blocks by style and level, similar to a mini-competition - Workshops, rounds, and practice spaces are open to dancers of all levels! Monday 07/27 ? Rangos 3 Practice Space 5:00 - 6:00 Standard Int 2 6:00 - 6:30 Smooth 2 6:30 - 7:00 Standard Int 1 7:00 - 7:30 Smooth 1 7:30 - 8:00 Standard Int 3/Adv 8:00 - 8:30 Smooth 3/Adv 8:30 - 9:00 Rounds 9:00 - 9:30 Wednesday 07/29 ? Studio Theater Practice Space 5:00 - 6:00 American Rumba Newcomer Lesson 6:00 - 6:30 Latin Audition review: Newcomer to Int 1 6:30 - 7:30 Latin Audition review: Int 1 to Int 2 7:30 - 8:30 Rounds 8:30 - 9:00 Dmitry's summer schedule: [image: image.png] Practice Spaces By popular demand, we are instating practice space at approximately our usual times over the summer! With the exception of May 23 and 24, these are the times and locations we have reserved through to August: Thursday 7/30 6:30 - 8:00pm CUC Kenner Studio Saturday 8/01 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio Sunday 8/02 11:30 - 1:30pm CUC Kenner Studio 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. 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