Social Graces Ballroom Dance

• Welcome

Social Graces teaches partnership dancing including Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Rumba, Cha Cha, East Coast and West Coast Swing-to name a few.

With membership you get to attend unlimited group classes. You must start out only attending beginner classes and as you advance, you may take an achievement test and attend intermediate classes as well. Group classes are only $65 per person and $120 per couple for a month long group class membership. If one joins group class because of your referral you will also receive a free private lesson as a thank you from the studio.

We have an informal dance the second and fourth Saturday of every month, with mini lessons, refreshments and door prizes. Students that are signed up for unlimited group classes can attend at a discount.

We also teach private lessons. Private lessons are tailored to fit your needs and wants as a social dancer. The first four lessons are only $110. This introductory rate is offered to give you a chance to experience a lesson that focuses on you and your partner.

• Our Philosophy

I was asked to describe what dancing meant to me. Dancing can be seen as many different things to many different people. Ultimately, dancing is a means to an end. Dance is a vehicle or expression through which one can communicate to others. People choose cars and trucks based on how that vehicle allows them to feel the road, how it feels when turning a corner. Dancers feel the floor much the same way. They stop sooner and accelerate faster. A dancer is like a fine-tuned machine. Dancing is an every growing process, a rose that never blossoms but to the on looker, dancing is a lot of things to a lot of people. It can be anything to anyone.

I often wonder what a dance instructor should be called: kinesiologist, movement analyst, balance control operator, teacher, or friend. How should the dancer be known? Should they be known as a move mentalist, performer, student, driver, or treasure hunter? If dancers are treasure hunters, what are they looking for? The more I study dance, the more I learn that there is no end, but is it merely the journey that counts. Jonathan Livingston Seagull had a similar realization about movement. He learned that flying was not about speed, but one would in fact reach a point where flying would be unnecessary. Neo, in The Matrix, also had such a realization when he no longer had to dodge the bullets of the agents. As stated above, dance is a means not an end. Use movement with others to brighten your life not to be your life. Dance is a rose bud on the plant of life. Treat is as such and you will be happier because of it. This is what dance means to me.

An Essay written in 1998
By Freddie Ciampi III

A Fact Dancers should know:

Aerobic exercise increases blood flow and volume and triggers the release of hormones that affect the brain and instantly energize. And it doesn’t take much. Researchers at Northern Arizona State found that just ten minutes of moderate exercise raised energy and improved mood.

-TLC for the New Mom, Baby Steps 2003 Edition