My husband
and I are social dancers. I would like to really improve my dancing
skills without spending a fortune but find that it is an almost
impossible task to achieve the way private lessons are offered by the
established ballrooms.
I
have decided to finally do something about it. I am looking to get
together an exclusive group of like-minded ladies to see how we can help
each other secure private lessons from the professional Dance
Instructors on a more sustainable basis.
Cost-Sharing Professional
Dance Instructors charge $100 an hour. I am trying to split the hour
with another lady so I can have a half hour lesson every week without breaking my bank account. The
half hour is exclusively yours - You can learn whatever dance you want,
do it alone or with a partner. You can opt to do it weekly and enjoy a
10% discount if you pay upfront ( $180 - $45 for each 4 half-hour lessons )
or once every other week and pay $50 each time. PRIVATE LESSON & HOSTING COMBO You, alone or with your partner, gets a 30-minute Private Lesson plus 6 dances of your choice with your Instructor for just $45. It is the BEST VALUE package for any lady wishing to really improve her dancing prowess quickly and cost-effectively !!! You will need to prepay $450 for 10 combo sessions to be held every other Wednesday evening in order to enjoy being danced hosted for FREE during the Practice Parties that follow your Private Lessons. Any refund requested for unused combo sessions will be net of costs ( $25 for each Practice Party ) incurred for being danced hosted. The above combo deal is not available elsewhere and possible only because the private lessons and practice parties that follow are hosted at my place and I am just looking to share cost of hiring the PRO Dance Instructor !!! Logistics I
am retired so sharing private lessons with me can be done at any time the Dance Instructor is available. I have initially scheduled them for Wednesdays between 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. In keeping with my endeavor to have a Dance Social Club, please feel free to join in the pre-lesson Potluck Dinner and post-lesson Practice Dance. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Potluck Dinner 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Two 30-minute Private Lessons 8:00 pm - 9:00 om Practice Dance Below is a video of my husband, Tom and me, in our old home dance studio, practicing a Rumba routine we had just learned from Primo Garcia in a group class when we first started dancing. We just renovated our place and took the opportunity to pull out the whole rear of our house to build ourselves a "ballroom" ... 31' long by 11' wide with a 12' floor to ceiling wall mirror and a chandelier. Adjacent to it on one side is the sitting area with a wet bar and food counter and a bathroom on the other side. The ballroom opens into a 30' X 9' open rear screen porch for those wanting a break from dancing. What our ballroom lacks in size it makes up in other ways ... You get to have potluck dinner, choice of couple tables at the corners of the dance floor itself or in the sitting area at 2 small group tables for socializing, control of lighting and sound volume of music. You will no longer have dark videos where you can barely be seen !! We want everyone to enjoy themselves and will be restricting attendance to a dozen people as our driveway can only park 4 cars and another 4 cars can park on the curbside in front of the house. We live in the Six Mile Creek sub-division in Viera, just 2 miles north of Brevard Zoo off Murrell Road. | Dance Instructors I
have danced socially with many professional Dance Instructors including
among others, Lance Sexton, Primo Garcia, Barry Johnson, RJ Crandall,
Wade Branham and Brian Oakes. If you are not planning to showcase or compete in the near term, Wade is probably the best Dance Instructor for you as you will enjoy taking lessons or dancing with him without being unduly stressed. If you are relatively new to dancing, or want to really enjoy learning how to dance socially and have fun, Barry is the dance instructor for you. I haven't taken any lessons from Brian yet but hope to do so as I can tell by watching him on the floor and dancing with him that he would be great for those wanting to dance better than just socially. Lance is without question the Dance Instructor you want if you intend to compete and WIN as many of his private students have done that consistently over the years. I could approach any of them to be dance
instructors for private lessons depending on their availability. Lance and Primo are probably the instructors who would be the hardest to schedule. I would
also be happy to consider other instructors of your choice. Dozens
of videos featuring both Ballroom and Latin dances are hosted. Just
scroll down the menu on your left and click on whichever dance
instructors, ballrooms, showcases and competitions you feel like checking out. |