From lag4 at williams.edu Sat Sep 14 15:56:04 2019 From: lag4 at williams.edu (Gordon, Lilian) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:56:04 -0400 Subject: [Williams Ballroom] Welcome to Ballroom Message-ID: Dear Friends, New and Old, Emma Levy and I, Lily Gordon, are so excited to kick off the fall semester with our first Ballroom this coming week! We've decided to have ballroom meetings starting* this Wednesday* at *7:00pm in Currier Ballroom*, hoping the majority of you can make it. This will be our regular meeting time each week. We usually dance for an hour, but you're welcome to stick around and goof off with us afterwards for a bit! Each meeting is part lesson, part dancing practice, and all fun. ;) We'll introduce ourselves more in person, but I'd like to do a quick intro right now on what Williams Ballroom Dancing is about. David Vascones '18 and Erica Chang '18 started this club a few years ago, and Emma and I both started dancing as freshman. Neither of us had really done partner dances before, so we started as complete beginners, as many of you might be. Dancing is incredibly important to both of us and we love the way social dancing connects people and inspires joy and lightness. Our vision for Ballroom is to create a fun, safe, experimental social dancing space for *all* skill levels. We're not a performance group, and we offer a low-pressure, low-commitment, and non-competitive environment for learning many styles of social dancing. Dances we've taught in the past include Swing (Lindy Hop), Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Hustle and Chachacha. This semester we're considering narrowing it down to just a few of these in order to focus more on each and learn more intermediate moves. We welcome your input, and would love to know which dances you want to learn! Also, although Emma and I technically lead the club, we're by no means experts, and we always welcome any dancing knowledge you may have to share (YouTube has a ton of instructional videos you can check out on your own time!). We also think it's important to honor the history and origins of each of these dances, and want to dedicate some time to learning more about them. We're very pumped to meet/see all of you. See you Wednesday, and please bring your friends! Love, Lily and Emma P.S. We left emails on the listserv from past semesters. Some of you might be graduated by now or not want to keep getting these emails. If you would like to unsubscribe from the listserv, look out for an email that instructs you on how to unsubscribe from listserv lists in general. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lag4 at williams.edu Wed Sep 18 18:00:22 2019 From: lag4 at williams.edu (Lilian Gordon) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:00:22 -0400 Subject: [Williams Ballroom] Ballroom in ONE HOUR! Message-ID: Hi all, Don?t forget that ballroom starts in one hour in Currier Ballroom! See you soon! - Lily and Emma From lag4 at williams.edu Wed Sep 25 09:28:59 2019 From: lag4 at williams.edu (Gordon, Lilian) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:28:59 -0400 Subject: [Williams Ballroom] Ballroom Tonighhhht Y'all Message-ID: Hi friends, Please join us tonight for some more Swing Dancing!! *7 pm- 8pm in Currier Ballroom. *If you didn't make it last week, don't worry! We'll review what we taught and teach some more fun moves. Beginners always welcome. See you soon! - Emma and Lily -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: