Board
Members
Gary and Kathy Willmes 343-3309
Henry Olivier and Linda Splittstoesser 399-9813
Dennis and Arlene Wilkerson 255-4383
Don and Elaine Reed 343-8929
Treasurer – Dennis Wilkerson 255-4383
Committees
Cards: Kathy Goodrich-Willmes 343-3309
Clean up: Need Volunteers
Telephone/E-mail/Newsletter & Web page -
Donald Reed
(reed_de@hotmail.com) 343-8929
Membership:
Elaine Reed 343-8929
Practice:
Linda Splittstoesser 399-9813
Public Relations: Terry Marvin 341-1285
Area Representatives
Belle Fourche /
Deadwood / Lead / Spearfish
Sturgis / Whitewood / Vale
Need Volunteer
Rapid City
Arlene and Dennis Wilkerson 255-4383
Linda Splittstoesser 399-9813
The Board of Trustees
includes all elected positions at large, area representatives, and the last
past president. If your area appoints a
new representative contact the president so he/she can be included.
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with a brief worksheet explaining your figures to Dakota Territory Dance Club,
ATTN: Treasurer, PO Box 9583, Rapid City, SD
57709.
Newsletter
article deadline is the 20th of the month previous to publication. Contact a
board member or send information to Dakota Territory Dance Club c/o Newsletter
Chairman, PO Box 9583, Rapid City, SD 57709
Check out our DTDC Website!
http://rap.midco.net/reedde/www
Notes From the board
Happy Holidays from the
Dakota Territory Dance Club Board!
Our board members met
at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at the CLSCC Viking Hall where we
finalized plans for the annual DTDC Christmas Dinner/Dance.
Our annual Christmas
Potluck Dinner/Dance will be held on Sunday, December 4th at 12:00
noon at the Rapid City Moose Lodge on East St.
Patrick St.
Everyone is invited! We request that you
bring a dish to share. Please come around 11:30 a.m. so we can set up the food
and begin eating at noon. The club will
provide ham and buns, coffee, cups, plates, utensils, etc. A cash bar will be open. Dancing to
the Midnight Sun band will be from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you would like to do a spotlight dance
(couples, group or line dance) please contact Linda Splittstoesser or any board
member. We had a great program last
year with outstanding attendance for the dinner/dance. Be sure to put it on your calendar.
Please note there will
be no DTDC Dance lessons in December.
Lessons will begin again on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in the
Viking Hall of CLSCC with Linda and Henry instructing. Be sure to thank them for donating their
time and talents to our club.
Attendance at the
lessons this fall has been great. We
had a nice turn out for 2-step and swing dance lessons in October and an even
larger group learning some old favorites: polka, waltz and cha-cha in November.
A small but lively
group of 14 people attended our September Potluck Dinner. As usual the food was fantastic and the
company superb! Many other club members
joined us for dancing later that evening with the Wilt Brothers.
The October Fest was a
great success with over 200 people in attendance. We enjoyed lots of traditional German food and then danced to
German music with the Rick Borger Band.
What a great event! Special
thanks go to Henry Olivier for spearheading the event!
Any ideas or suggestions for additional
activities are welcome from all of you.
Just give your ideas to any board member or attend the board meetings,
which are scheduled on the 2nd Tuesday of each month except
December.
Remember to attend the monthly DJ dances on
the second Friday of each month except December. The next DJ dance will be on January 13th. These dances are held at the Moose
Lodge with Linda and Henry furnishing DJ music from 8:45 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Free-will donations are welcome. There
is plenty of floor space and great music for dancing!
Also, we want to
encourage and support your attendance at the monthly dances held upstairs at
the new Roosevelt Recreation/Swim Center. These dances are scheduled from 7:30 – 10:30 p.m. on the fourth
Friday of each month and are hosted by Debbie Ellerton. DJ music is provided with a free dance
lesson beginning at 7:00 p.m. The wood floor is wonderful for dancing and the
room is smoke-free. Plan to check out
this new facility. Admission is $5 per
person. Attendance at the dances has
been great, and includes line and couples dancers of all ages having a great
time dancing to great music!
Les Harrington will be
available every Sunday afternoon (1:00 – 3:00 PM) at the Rapid
City Moose Lodge, to assist those dancers and students who wish to practice and/or
receive instruction.
Keep on Dancing!
Treasurer’s
Report:
8-28-05 through 11-07-05
Beginning Balance 860.22
Income:
Member Renewals 305.00
Total Income 305.00
Expenses:
New Deposit Book 3.00
Copy Country 10.60
Total Expenses 13.60
Ending Balance $1151.62
Dennis Wilkerson
DTDC Treasurer
next
dtdc board meeting: 01/10/06 6:30 p.m. clscc viking hall
We will continue to hold monthly DTDC board
meetings at 6:30 p.m., on the second Tuesday of the month during the coming
dance season in the Viking Hall at CLSCC.
All DTDC members are invited to attend.
Please give your input and ideas to the board members. The meetings are brief and completed at 7:00
p.m. before the dance lessons begin.
PRACTICE
THE DANCE CLUB NEEDS YOU & YOU & YOU! We can’t have too many people!
We
will not be having lessons in December.
Our
lessons will begin again on Tuesday, January 3rd in the Viking Hall at
CLSCC. We will be teaching
_____________
We will continue this format each Tuesday
evening in January. Lessons cost $2 per
person and dancers may stay for either or both sessions for the same price.
If anyone
would like to volunteer to teach a move at the intermediate class, please
contact me. If you have never done this kind of thing before and would like to
try it; now is the time. Again just call me.
Our lessons
are held at the Canyon Lake Senior Citizen’s Center, Tuesday evenings from
October through April. The charge is $2 per person. Beginner level lessons,
emphasizing basic footwork, are at 7:00 PM.
Intermediate level lessons, emphasizing patterns and moves, begin at
8:00 PM.
[We need single men and women!]
Linda Splittstoesser, Henry Olivier Practice Chairmen
Kathy’s kard korner
No cards sent this
month.
Kathy
Goodrich-Willmes,
Cards Chairman, 343-3309
Email
We appreciate all of the E-mail addresses we have now. It has saved many hours on the phone when notifying members of club activities. More addresses can save more time. We encourage those of you who have not shared your E-mail address with us, to do so.
Send your E-mail address to: reed_de@hotmail.com
MEMBER’S
NEWS
Several DTDC members attended the Dakota
Country Dance Club Fall Fest in Sioux Falls during the first weekend of
October. Terry and Colleen Marvin, John and Lorry Talley, Don and Elaine Reed,
Henry Olivier and Linda Splittstoesser, and
Les Harrington all enjoyed taking lessons from Omaha dance instructor,
Ron Shepard, as well as several excellent instructors from the Sioux Falls
area. Les performed with partner Judy
in a wonderful night-club two-step during the final program.
If
you have attended a dance function or have other family news to share please
email the information to Don Reed, Newsletter Editor and we will include it in
the next newsletter.
Membership News
We need more members! Please encourage your
dancing friends to join us!
Membership Due Dates are printed on the
newsletter-mailing label “Membership Due” is stamped on
newsletters the month previous to and the month of your membership due date. “Last
Newsletter” is used the month after your due date. E-mail recipients
will receive a follow up memo
regarding their due date. Please use the
attached membership registration form to send your renewal ($15/ person.)
See you on the dance floor!
Elaine Reed,
Membership Chairman
Upcoming Events
The
fourth Friday of each month, dance
at the Rapid City Recreation (Swim) Center. Host Debbie Ellerton, with DJ
music. 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM, $5.00.
On the second Friday of
the month, catch Linda & Henry’s open house DJ dances at the Rapid City
Moose Lodge (8:30 – 11:00 PM).
Sunday Afternoons from
1:00 PM until 3:00 PM Les Harrington will be
at
the Rapid City Moose Lodge, for those dancers and students who wish to practice
and/or receive instruction over the summer period.
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Dance Basics
Relationships:
All You Ever need to Know Can Be Learned in a West Coast Swing Class
By:
Skippy Blair 3/95; rev. 1/96
1. Lead her gently
and she’ll follow you anywhere. For
every action
there is an equal and opposite reaction.
2. Never criticize
a partner. The only person you can fix
is you. (The person who is
responsible for making an adjustment is the one who knows an adjustment needs
to be made.)
3. A Lead is
an indication of direction (a
suggestion, not a demand).
4. A partnership
in today’s society is 50/50. Both
partners are equally responsible for the outcome of the partnership.
5. If either
one of us insists on deciding who is right and who is wrong, we both
lose.
6. The first
rule in learning something new is—Don’t Hurt Anybody.
7. Be sensitive
to your Partner. Never blame or
ridicule. You can make it right
(don’t adjust the Partner—adjust you).
8. Always
concentrate on what rather than who is right.
9.Teamwork
gets the most points. You are judged by how good you make your partner look.
10. A good
partnership requires Patience, Understanding, and an Awareness of the needs of
the partner. Stay focused.
11. The way
to help a partner improve is to do your part so well that you are not
part of the problem.
12. Life is
a joy when we’re both in step to the same beat.
13.
Praise works wonders. Applaud
little accomplishments and bigger accomplishments will follow.
14. We
frequently judge others, not by who they are, but by who we are when we
are with them. Make your partner feel
wonderful.
15. Every
dance is a 3-minute relationship. If
someone can’t complete one whole dance without criticism, it is highly probable
that when the music stops, the criticism won’t. Run!
16. A
successful Partnership maintains the separate uniqueness of each individual,
without disrupting the connection of the partnership.
"3-Toe Base"
Another Educational Journey with Skippy
Blair © 4/02
One of
the most important discoveries in recent years is the use of the term
"3-Toe Base". "Toe Base" has become a common term,
relating
to the area starting where
the
base of the toes connect to the
rest of
the foot and ending on out through the end of the toes.
Doing a
"check" in any direction using "Toe-Base" simply means that
you would not have the ball of the foot on the floor; but by stretching the
toes, you would use the entire "Toe Base". Then came the discovery
that more than a few dancers roll their weight to the outside of their foot,
resulting in an open knee frame or worse yet, "toeing in".
Many
dancers "toe-in" on their turns.
Weight on the outside of the foot, also encourages turned ankles and
loss of balance. Telling people to lift
the little toe worked for some people; but recently, we started focusing on the
pressure of the toes needed to project the body forward. This approach is
working wonders. Dancers who use that technique look more lifted in the center,
more balanced and more in control.
It has
become obvious that expanding the term Toe Base to read "3-Toe Base"
has solved a lot of problems for a lot of people. It never ceases to amaze me
that simple little discoveries like this one can make such a difference.
Anytime
you walk forward (even walking down the street)think of landing in the center
of the front part of your heel and then roll through the toes as if you only
had three toes; the big toe and the next two. Pretend that the little toe and
it's
companion are not there. This takes practice, but you will be amazed at the
feeling of strength and control that runs up through your center.
I have had
runners tell me how much the "3 Toe Base" has improved their speed
and their feeling of perfect balance. Needless to say, the dancers in the
Motion Study Classes report experiencing a big difference, the very first time
they try it.
Here is
an exercise that can help you find the control that everyone searches for. Hold
onto something (back of a chair, kitchen sink, or
whatever)so
you don't have to worry about balance. Now spread your toes apart, as if you
were trying to make a shoetree out of your foot. Better yet, go ahead and take your shoes off so you can SEE the
difference. Now press the 3 toes (Big one & next two)down into the
floor.
If you
stay in place, that action will make you go up! Don't buckle your knees or you
won't go anywhere. Now use that same pressure into the floor and try sending
your body forward. The same pressure
that moves you UP, can move you OUT!
It's
simply a matter of direction! Check
on your little toe, you
should
not be aware that the little toe exists.
Many
people find it difficult to stretch their toes, particularly if they have not
been in the habit of doing that.
Stretching the toes is a vital, necessary element, in order to keep the
feet in good condition. Stretching the
toes takes the pressure off of bunions - (if you have any) - and if you DON'T
have
Bunions,
stretching the toes will serve as a preventative measure. Many of us "work out" to keep the
body in shape for dancing. The feet
really need the same "work out". Stand on your "3 Toe
Base", stretching the toes, move up and down through control of the ankle.
This is the "workout" for our feet. Your feet will thank you - and
your dancing will improve.
Guaranteed!
Email: Articles@SwingWorld.com or - Phone: 562-869-8949
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