by Beki Crider
All Members Meeting
2006 TCWDA Christmas Party
Dance Workshops Abound
Chapter Meeting
Need email addresses for upcoming events!!!
Hawaii Trip
Chris Myers and Lynda Kauffman of the Fort Worth Chapter (our social chair persons) have
put together a Hawaii trip to Maui and Oahu for October 2006. They have gotten some great
prices for the whole trip including airfare and car rental included. You may have seen the
information on our dance announce list emails and there will be something I'm sure in our
newsletter on it. But here is the contact information to the travel agent handling this for us:
Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them but you always know they are there.
Yes, it's time again for our All Members Meeting. This year it's our Halloween Theme again so come in costume/or not...your choice. It happens on Sunday, October 29th at 7:30 at Lockheed Martin Recreation Association at 3400 Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth.
If you are a TCWDA/LMRA member it's free with a Pot Luck dish and $5.00 without a dish. All non-members will need to pay $5.00 at the door and bring a dish also. Couples need to bring a double dish (hey it's only fair). The host is the Executive Board with the Fort Worth Chapter assisting in this venture. If you have never been to LMRA them you are in for a treat. The room is great and the floor great so expect some outrageous costumes and wonderful music from our
DJ, fun with you dance family and some awesome dancing to watch and say..."maybe someday I can do that"...WOW! Keep taking lessons from our DFW instructors and let them turn you into the WOW dancer on the floor.
In your sparkles or your jeans come one come all to our Holiday Christmas Party on Sunday, December 3rd at 7:30 at Lockheed Martin Recreation Association at 3400 Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth. TCWDA/LMRA gets in free at the door with a Pot Luck dish and $5.00 per person with no dish. Non-members must pay $5.00 also with a dish or $10.00 without a
dish.
If a couple bring a double dish.
But the main thing is be prepared to have so much fun with your Christmas dance family. The music will be great and your friends will be there so be prepared to have a wonderful Christmas Ball.
We have been so lucky this year to have some of the best workshops put on by our E-Board. They have been geared to all levels of dance and some good instructors have given us good technique and patterns to take to the dance floor or use in competition whether it be a large competitive event or a local club contest. We are so lucky now to have the level of dance and dance instructors we have in the DFW area. This was not the case 16 years ago when TCWDA started. Don't get me wrong we had some awesome dancers & great competitors but around 1992 certain individuals in TCWDA began to bring in these national instructors from
across the United States who turned our heads round and round with the style and technique that we could hardly understand and really could not totally comprehend but boy did we want to learn to do it. We were like sponges soaking as much as our little minds and bodies could withstand. Because of these individuals who worked very hard to bring you that level of dance you can now take lessons all over the DFW area from really quality instructors. So when you hear someone talking about the old TCWDA days just remember it was an explosive time in the DFW dance world and because of their (the old-timers) belief in promoting dance TCWDA helped to bring about the dance you see today whether it be in competition or our Friday and Saturday night favorite dance spot. Attend the workshops that your E-Board puts on...we can always work on being a better dancer and with the great instructors in our area...HOW CAN WE LOSE?
Friday
night... we have decided to visit our
sister chapter the Westside Shufflers at Electric Cowboy’s on
Friday nights for a while. As you know we usually leave around 9:30 to 10:00 as it gets
more crowded by
then and the restaurants clear out so it’s a win win situation for both of us.
Saturday night...you will find us at
The Horseman Club doing our thing. This is our home base so come out
and join us for a fun night of dancing and being with friends.
If you would like to be informed about upcoming events or reminders on top of the
dance announce list then send me your email address and I will see that you get a
reminder. We have more workshops coming up and you need to be informed about
these. A lot of time is spent putting these together for you and I know if you just know
about them sooner you would want to attend. Ron and I and Donnie and Melinda and
so many others have gone to so many workshops over the years and I never come away
without some new knowledge or a reminder of something I knew to do but just had let
that idea or technique slip away. You know we are not getting any younger and the
minds are starting to go...so come to the workshops to try and stay ahead of this old age
thing.
We are looking for ideas for a road trip. We love taking these short weekend
excursions around Texas. If you know of a fun club you have been to before and
it’s a town we can drive to on a Saturday, dance that night at the club and
see some sights the next day in the area and then drive back let me know. We
might plan this for May or June. Just send an email to me at: CronBekiC@charter.net
Beki
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