C O U P L E   
D A N C I N G   

Tuesday night classes by
Richard Powers with Mirage Marrou   

at the First United Methodist Church   


      BEGINNING CLUB DANCES - HUSTLE AND CLUB TWO-STEP      7 pm

  • Both of these club dances are new forms of swing.  They provide ways of dancing to the newer popular music, both slower (Club Two-Step) and faster (Hustle) than traditional big band swing music.  Both forms are danced today from coast to coast.

  • The classes will cover 3-Count Hustle, the version most popular today.  If you like swing because of its creativity and high energy, Hustle is both!

  • Club Two-Step, also called Night Club Two Step, NC2S, is an easygoing dance.  The variations come naturally and intuitively.  And it's one of the most useful couple dances because it can be done to more than half of today's popular music.

  • For those who are new to Hustle and Club Two-Step, the easy basics will be covered in the first classes.  Then we'll spend the rest of the time on many variations, also useful for those who already know the basics.  That's where these dances really become fun.

  • Hustle and Two-Step figures are often borrowed from Salsa and Swing, so a part of this class will show how to reverse this by expanding your Swing and Salsa options into these dances.

  • Richard will also emphasize partnering, enabling you to lead a dance partner through something you just invented, or follow anyone through variations you've never seen before.

  • These classes will help you find the freedom to express yourself on the dance floor and will allow you to dance well with anyone you meet.  You'll also become more comfortable with the dancing you've already learned.

    Intermediate to Advanced SALSA, and everything also works in Cha Cha.      8 pm

    • This class focuses on salsa, but all salsa figures also work as Cha Cha, so everything you learn here will be doubly useful.

    • Here are the figures that Richard and Mirage taught before.  The best of these will be taught, plus plenty of new ones.




    • Learn how to dance Salsa and Latin dances without feeling like a poser!  We'll go beyond the basics into the figures that stand out - compound face loops, wraps, cross-swivels, sweetheart and shine steps.

    • Salsa benefits greatly from taking a class one more time.  It sometimes take a while for the moves and style to get comfortably into the body.  Then one day it becomes instinctive.

    • Even though the figures and stylings will be flashier than basic salsa, the emphasis will still be on ease, comfort, flexibility and pleasure.

    • Prerequisite: some familiarity with basic salsa or cha cha (unless you're a quick learner).

      Intermediate to Advanced  CROSS-STEP WALTZ — Beyond the Basics      9 pm     


  • This past year has been an especially creative one on the dance floor, with new Cross-Step Waltz variations coming in from many dancers and teachers around the world.  Some were created through the Waltz Lab.  Many are new since then.

  • But unlike the Waltz Lab, where variations are invented, these will be carefully taught and practiced, until they're as smooth as silk.  You master them here!

  • These are the intermediate/advanced variations which are never taught in the daytime social dance classes.  Most of these figures have never been taught in this series, so you can continue taking this level indefinitely.

  • When Waltz Etcetera in Seattle sent out their fall class schedule, featuring Cross-Step Waltz, they wrote, "Cross-step waltz is a delightful, swooping, playful dance; it's our favorite kind of waltz and the core of a lot of what we teach.  The structure of cross-step waltz lends itself to many elegant variations, much more so than other kinds of waltz."  The director Zachariah Cassady added further, "this wonderful dance, my personal favorite, is the best partner dance in the world."

  • Practical skills include leading and following secrets, plus improving your pivots.

  • Learn it from the source while you can.  Richard is recognized as the world's expert on Cross-Step Waltz.

  • Prerequisite: Knowing basic Cross-Step Waltz, or being a fairly quick study in learning new dance forms.


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