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Hollywood Ballroom Dance Center in Silver Spring
2:59 PMHollywood Ballroom Dance Center is located in suburban Silver Spring, MD.
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11:49 PMDance Q & A: What is “Continuity Style” Foxtrot?
5:24 PMWhat is “continuity-style” American Foxtrot?
Bronze (beginning) Foxtrot is characterized by steps that pretty much go either straight or at right angles, with the feet coming together at the end of each set of steps. It’s a nice form of American-style foxtrot, but it’s really a stripped down version that can look, well, slightly boxy and plain.
Silver Foxtrot (sometimes called “continuity-style” Foxtrot) is a more advanced, varied, and beautiful form of the dance, introducing a more flowing or continuous movement. Rather than bringing the feet together to form angular, box-like steps, in continuity style Foxtrot, the feet rarely close together.
In continuity-style Foxtrot, each step normally continues in a gently curving line beyond the previous
step, adding curved body shaping which gives the whole movement a very pleasing, subtle,
three-dimensional curve through space. All this results in a much smoother, more flowing action.
Watch the short video below for an excellent example of how much difference continuity style movements make.
— Contributed by: Steve Wright, Dance Instructor
You might be encouraged to move up to this flowing,
silver style of American Foxtrot or to develop your
ability further in this wonderful, enjoyable dance.
Raise your glasses! Now you can at the Ballroom’s Cafe.
1:54 AMCafe Now Permitted to Sell Beer and Wine
Beer and wine will now be available from the “Take Five Cafe” at Hollywood Ballroom Dance Center during our evening dances.Dance this Saturday to the sounds of the Olney Big Band while enjoying the food and drink from our newly made-over snack bar, the “Take Five Cafe.”While you toast good times and happy dancing, please also raise your glasses to all who worked so tirelessly over the past months to accomplish this goal. We’d especially like to thank Ron Wagaman, general manager, Richard Zierdt, owner, and Claire Carabello, the driving force behind the re-invention of the cafe.
Don’t forget to order your tickets for the Olney Big Band this Saturday. Tickets may be purchased on-line at
Mailchimp Instructions for Highlights
1:52 PMMailchimp Instructions for Highlights
- Log in to gmail.com using your name@hollywoodballroomdc.com
- At Top Ribbon (You Mail Calendar etc), select More, then MailChimp
- On the left side of the Dashboard screen, select Templates
- In Templates, select My Templates
- Hover over Highlights #2, click on Edit
- Hover over the headline message, and click Edit to change.
- Make changes, then click Save Now (they say they auto-save every 20 seconds, but I don’t think it does)
- Hover over the Highlights main message, and click Edit
- Compose the introductory messages, update the dates, and dance schedules and lessons. Save occasionally
- Review the bulletins that follow the lessons and update as needed
- Click Save now, then Save & Exit
- From the Templates Page, select Campaigns from boxes at top right
- On the left side of Campaigns page, click Campaigns, then “Regular Ol’ Campaign
- Select the list you’ll be sending to (Be careful, this defaults to the primary distribution). For drafts, use the list called “Bea and Rich and Ron and Claire”
- Click gray Next box on right
- Name your campaign (optional), and update the subject line. Unclick the Facebook box
- Click gray Next box
- Select the template for the email. Click My Templates, then Highlights #2
- Click gray Next box
- At plain-text screen, click gray Next box
- On the confirmation screen, all the options must be green. If there is a problem anywhere, has to be edited. This generally happens when you’re creating a new template from scratch, new lists, etc. Following these directions, should all be green.
- At bottom, click Preview & Test then “Send a Test email” if you want to send a test to yourself only. Enter your email address and click Send Test
- Click on X to lose the test window
- If you have edits you want to make before completing the campaign, use the back button, make changes, then continue the Next process.
- When ready to send, click “Send Now”
- A window re-capping what you are about to do asks for confirmation. Make sure you’re sending the right mailing list, then click Send
- You’ll get High Fives
- Get back to the Dashboard and Log out
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2:28 AMUpcoming Classes and Events
2:26 AMFuture Events and Classes
Here’s a glimpse of what we’re planning.
Our calendar is constantly evolving, however, and everything is subject to change. So check back frequently!
Preview the JUNE 2013 Calendar
Dancing on Saturdays – $10 special price
June 1, July 6
Lesson at 8:00 pm, Social Ballroom Dance 9:00 pm
Price includes both lesson and dance!
More details coming soon
Rentals
Please keep the Ballroom in mind if you know any business or person who needs space for an event. We have rental dates available
at this time.
HBDC’s mission is to keep ballroom dancing alive and active in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area by providing a cheerful, high
quality and affordable facility for ballroom dancing. While we are not a rental facility, the rentals help us to achieve our mission.
One day soon we hope not to need rentals. In the meantime, rentals and all referrals are very much appreciated.
Steve Wright’s Tuesday Dance Class at Hollywood Ballroom Dance
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