USA Dance hosts Thanksgiving Ballroom Dance

USA Dance, Eastern Shore, MD Chapter 6098 will host a ballroom dance on Saturday evening November 17 at Asbury UMC in Salisbury. Tickets will be available at the door (cash only please): $12.50 per person or $10.00 for USA Dance members and students with ID.

Ticket price includes an early bird Waltz lesson at 7:00 p.m. with Sam & Denise Miller, world champion dancers of the United Country Western Dance Council (UCWDC), a world-wide dance competition circuit; master dance coaches and national event directors. They are the owners of Dance Arts in Portsmouth, Va.

Open dancing will be from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. with the "Velvetones". Attire is dressy casual. Singles and beginner dancers welcome. No smoking; no alcohol permitted. For more information call 410-749-4914 for visit www.usadanceeasternshore.org

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WHY BALLROOM DANCE?

General Benefits
You will find many profits, many benefits, and many enhancements to life if ballroom dancing is your avocation, pastime, or hobby. You will find an enhanced appreciation of music and its rhythms. You will experience an increased sense of balance, a more fluid movement in walking and running.

Dancing with a partner in harmony with good music will help you develop a more open, understanding, responsive, and supportive relationship with your partner and with others. Your outlook on life will become more positive.

While all dancing has its value, there will be several completely memorable dances in one’s life. A time when the partner, the music, the movement all come together in a sense of achievement and pleasure that stays in memory.

Physical Benefits
Physically, dancing is a great body conditioner, even if done on a near-weekly basis. If done on a regular basis, such as two to three times a week, it becomes quite a beneficial activity. It will increase that mid-afternoon stamina needed on the job, it will develop that circulatory “second-heart,” strengthen your legs, and will generally tone the body over all. As mentioned before, walking and body movement will be easier, more balanced, and more fluid, with greater flexibility in axis of movement.

Mental Benefits
Mentally, dancing serves as a wonderful stress relief. A busy day of pressure melts into the background when evening brings dancing in the arms of another and pursuing the muse with dance? Sleep that night is sound and relished.

Becoming a competent dancer will provide an excellent learning experience in discipline, achievement, goal setting, planning, assuredness, self-confidence, and pride in your abilities. These favorable attributes will transfer to other aspects of your life as well.

Social Benefits
A good dancer is a definite plus to social occasions – especially the men. If a man takes the time to become a skilled and confident, but not overly forceful leader, every lady in the room will appreciate his presence. A good dancer does not need to be handsome to be popular. Similarly, a lady who is a good dancer radiates grace and charm, regardless of whether she is a physical beauty.

Good dancing and good dancers can heighten the atmosphere of an event. The whole affair goes more smoothly when there is competent dancing. In business and professional life, a person can lend to their acceptance and belonging by the ability to dance. On many social occasions it is almost essential to be able to dance well.

As a ballroom dancer you will make many new friends and will find that ballroom dancers are wonderful people. Ballroom dancing will add a new and very beneficial dimension to your life. It is a lifetime social skill that will provide much joy during your entire life.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?
Visit our web site at www.usabda.org
or call 800-447-9047