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May Balboa update!

We had a great response to our ridiculously insane registration prices for the Hot & Cool Balboa workshops with Mickey & Kelly coming in July! We may have come to our senses, but if you missed out we still have a set of perfectly reasonable early bird discount prices available through June 4. Check them out!

Locally, we’ve been really excited by the turnout for our Pure Balboa Fundamentals class at the Dance Complex this month. For those who are interested in picking up on the Bal-Swing side of things, we’ll be running a Bal-Swing Fundamentals class on Tuesdays at the same location, starting June 3rd at 8pm. Registration is now open with a $10 discount if you sign up before the first class!

Also, just so you know, coming in June, we’re going to have our first Saturday Night Shuffle — a Saturday night social dance geared towards you — our Balboa audience! Stay tuned for more information!

Updates on Mickey & Kelly workshops in July

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Mickey Fortanasce and Kelly Arsenault are coming to Boston July 19-20 and will be teaching a series of awesome classes on fast and slow Balboa.

Check out the event page for updated information on schedule and pricing.

Registration opens on May 1 with ridiculous discounts!

Private lessons with TinkerBal instructors Oct 12-14

We are fortunate to have David Rehm, Bobby White, Teni Lopez-Cardenas, and Kate Hedin in town for TinkerBal the weekend of October 12-14.

There are still a few opportunities to schedule private lessons with any of the four instructors while they are here, so especially if you are not attending the TinkerBal workshops, we encourage you to consider a private lesson.

David, Bobby, and Kate will be available on for private lessons on Friday, October 12.

Teni will be available briefly in the mornings prior to the Saturday and Sunday workshops, October 13-14.

Contact the instructor(s) directly to make arrangements:

Bobby White (robertwhiteiii at gmail.com)
Kate Hedin (kate.hedin at yahoo.com)
David Rehm (david at davidrehm.com)
Teni Lopez-Cardenas (tenishoe at gmail.com)

Lessons will be in Waltham. Contact July or Stan if you have any additional questions.

And now for your viewing pleasure, here’s David dancing with Heather Ballew at the Provence Swing Festival in 2010:

Bobby and Kate dancing at this past Lindy Focus:

and Teni dancing with Andreas Olssen at ILHC this year:

Balboa update for September

Just wanted to give you the heads up before the long weekend — September is right around the corner and that means that we’ve got a bunch of things coming down the pipe!

Sep 6 (Thu) 9pm-11pm — Balboa at the Stomp
We’ve been at a bunch of Lindy events, it’s time for some Balboa! Come join us in Arlington for our monthly FREE Balboa dance at the Episcopal Church of our Savior at 21 Marathon St, Arlington, MA.
(for those interested, we usually swing by Chilly Cow down the street for some tasty frozen custard before the dance.)

Sep 8 (Sat) 1pm-5pm — Balboa Crash Course
Fast on the heels of the Stomp is our Balboa Crash Course on Saturday, September 8. In 4 hours we’ll cover all the basics you’ll need to know to go out and dance Balboa socially. Tell your friends that you’ve always wanted as Bal dance partners or come yourself for a quick refresher! Pre-register online by September 7 for a $5 discount!)

Sep 16 (Sun) 3:30pm-7pm — Balboa on a Sunday Afternoon
As you all should know by now, BoaSA is our monthly Balboa practice/dance at the Crosby Whistle Stop (24 Roland St, Charlestown, MA) This month we’re having guest instructors Sandra Aguiar and Alex Fernandes from Providence Swings teaching the introductory lesson at 3:30pm. The regular practice will start at 4:30pm as usual with music picking up sometime around 5pm.

Sep 22 (Sat) NY — Nick Williams and Laura Keat Balboa Workshops!
For those in, near or interested in travelling to New York, Nick Williams and Laura Keat will be teaching a series of Balboa workshops at Dance Manhattan! (Lindy workshops are offered on Sunday, Sep 23). They are limiting registration to 24 leaders and 24 followers and are offering a discount for those registering by September 7 so register soon!

Do note that this is the same weekend as the Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange. Don’t let the name fool you — Gordon Webster and Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns will be in the house and there should be plenty of hot tunes to get yer Balboa on.
Sep 21-23 — Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange

And just so you know, October is coming up pretty quickly and with it comes TinkerBal with amazing instructors Kate Hedin, Teni Lopez-Cardenas, David Rehm, and Bobby White, ready to give you personalized Balboa understanding and wisdom. Follower registrations are already at capacity but we’re waiting for a few more leaders to register so we can pull the last few followers off the waiting list. Leaders, don’t leave them hanging! Register now!

Oh, speaking of Nick Williams and Kate Hedin, here’s their winning dance in the open strictly Balboa final at this year’s ILHC:

That’s it for now. Hope to see you soon, dancing Bal!

End of Summer Updates

Just a few things:

TODAY, August 19 is our monthly Balboa on a Sunday Afternoon. We’re having our introductory Balboa lesson at 3:30pm with the regular practice starting at 4:30pm.

Coming in September, in case you have friends who have wanted to learn Balboa but haven’t had the chance and missed the recent Balboa series at New School Swing, we’re offering another Balboa Crash Course on Saturday, September 8 from 1-5pm. Tell your non-Balboa-dancing friends so you can finally dance dance Bal with them!

Also, for those in, near or interested in travelling to New York: Nick Williams and Laura Keat will be teaching a series of Balboa workshops at Dance Manhattan! The weekend is September 22-23 and the Balboa series is being taught on Saturday the 22nd (Lindy workshops are offered on Sunday). They are limiting registration to 24 leaders and 24 followers and are offering a discount for those registering by September 7 so register soon!

Finally, TinkerBal registrations are filling up. Followers are at capacity, meaning that if you haven’t registered or already gotten yourself on the waitlist, the only thing you can do is get into the waitlist queue — if people do have to cancel, we’ll be filling from the waitlist. We still have a few leader spots open, and it would behoove you tentative leader types to register soon so we can get followers off the pre-capacity waitlist. They can’t dance Bal without leaders!

Hope to see you soon, dancing Bal!