Hello Gainesville Ocala Social Dancers,
Lots of great swing dancing this week. Starting Friday night with the UF Swing Club.
Saturday night is our big dance. Come out for our First Swinging Soul Saturday Night Swing Dance Party at 308 West. This is the first one in a long time. There will be a mix of mostly slower music suitable for West Coast and all kinds of Swing with some Cha Cha, Hustle, Salsa and some surprises.
Listen to some selections from the music mix.
www.gainesvilledance.com/w/wbr/gainesvilledance_com/music/20110205_swing_party_mix.mp3
To sign up for the dance on Facebook and invite others. You can also sign up for the Gainesville Dance Facebook group there, for future Facebook invites. This is different than the Dance Gainesville group, but we are all friends.
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143357005724521
308 West is in the old Firestone Building located immediately to the east of the Seagle Building on University Avenue. We are upstairs. You can park in the Seagle Building lot for $2 per night. Get a parking permit from us when you come inside. You can park underneath or on 3rd street for free.
Sunday the Stephen White workshop at the Eagles Club is open. Get over there from 3 to 4 for instruction from a professional dancer and stay for the dance party.
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You will have to wait until Sunday for Tango.
UF Tango Club was in session Thursday, not tonight Friday.
Tango Pavadita meets from 2 to 5 at 308 West. This is for all levels. Beginners get personal attention. This is somewhat informal and an opportunity for instruction, practice and dancing.
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175016559208815
Barbie's excellent Basic Two-Step continues at Richard's class at the Boltin Center.
Hustle! starts Sunday February 13.
Hustle does not start this week February 6 due to the Super Bowl. This Saturday night's Swing Dance counts as your fourth session, if you want the package of 4 sessions for the price of 3.
Magnificent Buenos Aires dancers, but what is with the light hair?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZiuc7VTcA
Three articles this week. I do not know what got into me. I could not stop writing.
Happy Dancing,
Andy
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Schedule: confirm all programs before going
1. Friday 2/04 - UF Swing Club
2. Saturday 2/05 - Swinging Soul Saturday Night Dance Party
3. Sunday 2/06 - Tango Pavadita Practica
4. Sunday 2/06 - West Coast Swing Workshop and Dance at the Eagles Club
5. Tuesday 2/08 - Basic Two-Step
6. Wednesday 2/09 - West Coast Swing
7. Thursday 2/10 - West Coast Swing with Judi
8. Thursday 2/10 - Tango in Ocala
9. Friday 2/11 - UF Tango Club
10. Friday 2/11 - UF Swing Club
11. Saturday 2/12 - Tango Pavadita Milonga
12. Sunday 2/13 - Hustle!
Article: How to Get Free Pizza
Article: How to Be Nice and Pick Up Chicks
Article: Marty, Again - Save yourself some worry.
Other:
Argentine Tango with David and Thuy on Tuesdays in a downtown private home. david.chayes@gmail.com
Argentine Tango with Andrea Pham on Wednesdays in a NW private home. pham.andrea@gmail.com
Ballroom Semi-Private Classes with Caroline Picart in private homes. cjpicart@gmail.com
Latin dancing on Tuesdays 8-10 class and 10-11 free dance social, Thursdays 8-10 class and Sundays 5-7, Bachata, Cha Cha, Salsa at the Unified Training Center, $6/hour. leydi@salsacalientestudios.com
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Quotes:
- All right, so I'll go to the Stardust Ballroom. I'll put on a blue suit, and I'll go. And you know what I'm gonna get for my trouble? Heartache. A big night of heartache. ~ Marty (Ernest Borgnine), screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky
- I don't know what's gotten into me. I can't stop talking. ~ Marty
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1. Friday 2/04 - UF Swing Club
Unified Training Center, 809 W University Ave
8:00 - 11:00
www.FloridaSwingDance.com
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2. Saturday 2/05 - Swinging Soul Saturday Night Dance Party
Gainesville Dance and Music Association, 308 W University Avenue
8:00 - 11:00+ : Social dancing
$10, $5 students
Mix of mostly slower music suitable for all types of Swing
with some other types of social dancing mixed in.
Andrew, 352-327-2378, publish@gainesvilledance.com
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3. Sunday 2/06 - West Coast Swing Workshop with Stephen White and Dancing
Eagles Club, 4562 NW 13th Street
3:00 - 4:00 : West Coast Swing Workshop with Stephen White
4:00 - 8:00 : Dancing
$10 Workshop, $3 Dancing
Josh Angel, joshuadancer79@gmail.com
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4. Sunday 2/06 - Tango Pavadita Practica
Gainesville Dance Association, 308 W University Avenue
2:00 - 5:00 : Tango technique, all levels
8:30 - 12:00 : Milonga
$10, $5 Students
Informal Argentine Tango class, practice and dancing.
Great for beginners to get personal attention.
http://gainesvilletango.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/tango-pavadita-argentine-tango-milonga-and-practica-in-gainesville-florida/
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5. Tuesday 2/08 - Basic Two-Step
Thelma Bolton Center, 516 NE 2 Ave
6:45 - 9:15 : Lesson and dancing
With Professional Dance Instructor Barbie
Richard, 352-213-8769, mostlyswinggainesville@yahoo.com
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6. Wednesday 2/09 - West Coast Swing with Essie
Eagles Club, 4562 NW 13th Street
7:00 - West Coast Swing class and dancing
$3 members, $5 non-members
Essie Jennings, essie.jennings@gmail.com
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7. Thursday 2/10 - West Coast Swing with Judi
Imperial Dance Studio, SW 34 Street
7:00 - 8:00 : Class
$35 Month
Judi Markell, jlmarkell10@comcast.net
352-375-7763, imperialdancestudio@hotmail.com, www.imperialdancestudio.net
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8. Thursday 2/10 - Foundations of Argentine Tango in Ocala
Las Palmas Restaurant, Ocala, FL
7:00 - 9:30 pm : Argentine Tango class
$10, $5 students for lesson
Free for practice, social dancing afterwards
David Chayes, david.chayes@gmail.com, 352-328-7916
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9. Friday 2/11 - UF Swing Club
Unified Training Center, 809 W University Ave
8:00 - 11:00
www.FloridaSwingDance.com
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12. Friday 1/11 - UF Tango Club
Possibly at
UF Housing Tanglewood Common Room, 2907 SW 13 Street
8:00 - 9:15 Tango class
9:15 - 11:00 Tango practica and social
Class and practica is FREE for UF Tanglewood residents and students. $5 donation minimum is asked from others.
UF Argentine Tango Club, http://grove.ufl.edu/~tango/
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13. Saturday 2/12 - Tango Pavadita Opening Night
Gainesville Dance Association, 308 W University Avenue
7:30 - 8:30 : Tango technique, all levels
8:30 - 12:00 : Milonga
$10, $5 Students
Argentine Tango milonga. Elegant dancing, light refreshments
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14. Sunday 2/13 - Hustle!
Gainesville Dance and Music Association, 308 W University Avenue
7:00 - 8:00 : Beginners Hustle!
8:00 - 9:00 : Intermediate Hustle!
9:00 - 9:30 : Advanced Hustle!
$10, $5 students
Andrew, 352-327-2378, publish@gainesvilledance.com
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Article: How to Get Free Pizza
After a year layoff, I recently started up Israeli dancing again. There were only three of us tonight, so we ended early.
That gave me time to get to 308 for English Country Dancing, which ended at 9:30, and from there over to Leonardo's in time for $1 a slice pizza before closing.
On my way in, a homeless guy, sitting outside the parking lot with his backpack, asked me for some food. I brushed him off.
The night before, there was a homeless guy hanging around when we came out from Salsa. I brushed him off too, but Richard gave him some money. I told Richard he should not give the guy money there, because we do not want him waiting for people to come out.
Two more homeless guys were camping out in the parking lot. They all had backpacks. Why were there so many and what happened to the plastic bags?
Richard told me to chase them off, but I told him I would rather have the police do it. I left them there yesterday, but we cannot have them there. It is bad for business. So far, I have not seen them again. Maybe they were passing through. That would answer my questions.
I ordered a slice of cheese pizza to go. It cost $3. No more dollar deals.
When I got back to the parking lot, the homeless guy said, "Can I have your leftovers."
I said, "These are not leftovers." I started to open my car door, then went back and handed the guy my pizza.
He said, "I really am hungry."
I said, "I know you are."
Better that the homeless guys congregate by Leonardo's than our place.
I started to drive out the back way, but decided I still wanted a slice of pizza, so I parked my car again and went in. I told the woman, "I need another slice. I gave mine to a homeless guy."
Then I asked her what happened to dollar-pizza before closing. She said they discontinued it.
While my pizza was being warmed up, we had an interesting discussion about homeless people.
She did not charge me for my pizza and I tipped her a dollar, so my $1 slice cost $4 dollars.
www.gainesvilledance.com/Articles/tabid/79/Gainesville-Dance/171/How-to-Get-Free-Pizza.aspx
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Article: How to Be Nice and Pick Up Chicks
Two weeks ago there was a bat mitzvah at the synagogue. Behind me was sitting a teenage girl who was by herself. I started talking to her. She went to Buchholz and was on the soccer team with the bat mitzvah girl. I introduced her to my nephew and they already knew each, at least from sight. They were both in the band.
Most people went in to lunch, but my sister and nephew were leaving. My sister said there were too many people she did not know. I told her Josh needed to go talk to that girl because she did not know anyone else, but they left anyway.
Those kind of opportunities do not happen every day. A cute girl from your High School, unescorted in your synagogue, in the band, on the girls soccer team, not knowing anyone and waiting for someone to talk to her. If only we knew then ...
Soon after that, on the Rikud (Israeli Dance) list, a woman complained she went to a group in a city she was visiting and nobody spoke to her.
Reminded me of a time at the JCC in Boca in Ira Weisburd's group. After playing basketball, I got to dancing late. I asked my cousin, "Who is the new guy?"
She said, "I don't know. I was going to meet him at the end."
I said to her, "That's not nice. That means he spends the whole evening not knowing anybody and feels out of place. You are supposed to introduce yourself right away, so he feels welcome."
At another group we used to go to, we used to joke that the oldtimers would not talk to you until you had been there for two years, because they did not know if you were coming back.
www.gainesvilledance.com/Articles/tabid/79/Gainesville-Dance/168/How-to-Be-Nice.aspx
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Article: Marty, Again - Save Yourself Some Heartache
A friend of mine had been taking lessons for a while, but never made it out dancing anywhere. He felt rejected every time he went. He said to me, "I can tell. The women run away from me." I danced with him. He was a good dancer and he was a nice looking guy. I tried to get him to go Contra Dancing where he would have a positive experience, but he was too discouraged. He had taken lessons for a few years and it was ashame he quit.
Last night was a long, crazy night of dancing, first Richard's Swing party at the Boltin Center and then the Tango Milonga at 308 West. After 5 hours, I was, as my dad would say, "a little punch drunk".
When I got home, I was too wound up to sleep, so I cut up an organic apple, doled out some local blueberries from Wards, topped with whip cream and my secret ingredients and put on the TV to settle down.
TCM host Robert Osborne was interviewing Ernest Borgnine, which was a treat and then Marty came on, my lucky night.
Angie (Marty's best friend): "How about calling up that big girl we picked up in the movies about a month ago up in the RKO Chester?...You know that big girl that was sittin' in front of us, with the skinny friend...Remember her name was Mary Feeny - we took 'em home all the way out in Brooklyn. What daya say? Think we ought to give 'em a call? I'll take the skinny one."
Marty: "She maybe got a date already, Ange...I didn't like her. I don't feel like calling her up."
...
When Marty gets home, he goes in his room and makes a phone call.
Marty: "...Oh, hello there. Is this Mary Feeney? Hello, there. This is Marty Pilletti. I-I wonder if you recall me. Well, I'm kind of a stocky guy. The last time we met was in the RKO Chester. You was with a friend of yours, and I-I was with a friend of mine, name of Angie. This was about a month ago - The RKO Chester on West Farms Square. Yeah, you was sitting in front of us, and we was annoying you, and - you got mad and - I'm the fella who works in a butcher shop. Oh, come on, you - you know who I am! That's right, and then - then we went to Howard Johnson's. We had hamburgers. You hadda milkshake. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, well, I'm the stocky one, the heavy-set fella. Yeah, well, I'm - I'm glad you recall me because I hadda pretty nice time that night, and I was wondering how everything was with you. How's everything? That's swell. Yeah, well, I tell you why I called. I was figuring on taking in a movie tonight, and I was wondering if you and your friend would care to see a movie tonight with me and my friend."
The camera zooms in slowly. Marty closes his eyes, he already knows he is going to get rejected.
Marty continues: "Yeah, tonight. Why, I know it's a little late to call for a date, but I didn't know myself till - yeah, I know."
Might as well make the rejection complete.
Marty: "Yeah, well, what about - well, how about next Saturday night? Are - are you free next Saturday night? Well, what about the Saturday after that? Yeah. Yeah, I know. Well, I mean, I understand that. Yeah. Yeah."
When Marty comes to dinner, his mother starts up with him.
Mrs. Pilletti: "Why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom?"
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Marty: "I chased after enough girls in my life. I-I went to enough dances. I got hurt enough. I don't wanna get hurt no more. I just called up a girl this afternoon, and I got a real brush-off, boy! I figured I was past the point of being hurt, but that hurt. Some stupid woman who I didn't even want to call up. She gave me the brush. No, Ma, I don't wanna go to Stardust Ballroom because all that ever happened to me there was girls made me feel like I was a-a-a bug. I got feelings, you know. I-I had enough pain. No thanks, Ma!"
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Mrs. Pilletti: "Marty, put on the blue suit, huh?"
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Marty: "All right, so I'll go to the Stardust Ballroom. I'll put on a blue suit, and I'll go. And you know what I'm gonna get for my trouble? Heartache. A big night of heartache."
While I was writing this newsletter I made this delicious bean soup, all organic, from stuff I had gotten from Wards. Yum. It is really good. Did not need to use any seasoning. If you have good ingredients, you do not need to add anything else.
Where was I? Oh, yeah.
Marty meets his wife that night.
Save yourself some heartache. Your life can change in a moment and you cannot predict the future.
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