Slower in the summertime?

[pygmalion]

A bunch of my usual dance classes have been suspended for the summer. :x Is that normal? Is your dance calendar slower in the summertime? If so, what do you do to compensate?

[pygmalion]

LOL. If not, where are you taking classes, and can I sign up? :wink: :lol: :lol:

[Genesius Redux]

Come on out to Nashville, Jenn! We have a very busy dance calendar for the summer. Lucky for me, I'm not doing anything theatre-wise until the directing gig I've got in the fall, so it's dance dance dance throughout the summer, and hang out by the pool listening to Puccini and Pink Floyd! You are most welcome to join me--I need a good buddy who will share a Buffalo Chicken Pizza with me on occasion (none of my friends here like it!).

[delamusica]

Our studio offers fewer classes in the summer - but it's only because fewer people sign up for group classes since they're vacationing and whatnot. On the other hand, we see a huge increase in private lessons as people are getting ready for our local comp, the Colorado Star ball. So it sort of balances out . . .

[MacMoto]

The classes I used to go to ran through the summer last year, but the number of people turning up went down sharply. These were drop-in classes, and there were times when the teacher had to call off lessons because there weren't enough people. Many monthly salsa clubs in my area also take a break during summer.

[DancePoet]

Looks like the dance studio I go to is full speed ahead with classes and dancing opportunities!

[pygmalion]

Come on out to Nashville, Jenn! We have a very busy dance calendar for the summer. Lucky for me, I'm not doing anything theatre-wise until the directing gig I've got in the fall, so it's dance dance dance throughout the summer, and hang out by the pool listening to Puccini and Pink Floyd! You are most welcome to join me--I need a good buddy who will share a Buffalo Chicken Pizza with me on occasion (none of my friends here like it!).

Buffalo Chicken Pizza? Gotta try it. :D

[salsachinita]

I miss my summer :cry: .......

GR, Tahiti.....?

[dr daffy]

lol, my dance studio cancels all my classes over the summer. they do, however, have summer classes that you can take. but they're only six weeks, once a week. it's pretty expensive too. in the summer, i do a lot of my dancing by myself and with my friends

[Sagitta]

Where I am the opportunities for ballroom dancing and learning that drops sharply in the summer. Probably something to do with college kids not being in school, I guess. The salsa/latin crowd used to be smaller, but with nearby venues, such as at Syracuse, closing, I think we may be in luck for a good crowd this summer. I'm actually happy with my club latin experiences, and I see even more opportunities to get some free time practicing and helping out then before due to my increasing experience. Monday nights helping out with a beginner rueda and another beginner sasla class. If I could get enough ballroom group lessons as I manage to get with club latin I would work on increasing the ballroom scene. (I'm co-teaching a basic rueda class the next two Sunday etc.) But, as I don't...it is ballroom's loss.

[Genesius Redux]

Come on out to Nashville, Jenn! We have a very busy dance calendar for the summer. Lucky for me, I'm not doing anything theatre-wise until the directing gig I've got in the fall, so it's dance dance dance throughout the summer, and hang out by the pool listening to Puccini and Pink Floyd! You are most welcome to join me--I need a good buddy who will share a Buffalo Chicken Pizza with me on occasion (none of my friends here like it!).

Buffalo Chicken Pizza? Gotta try it. :D
Is it a date?

[etchuck]

I think I mentioned this before... we have a full 9-hours-worth of dancing schedule for most of the summer here. This week is a "practice week" only due to Memorial Day commemorative holiday (or Blackpool Observance Week ;) ).

I guess my point is... it's the summer, and I wind up ramping up my practice time during these hot months. If everyone's going away for the month, more practice time for me. :bouncy:

[dancin_feet]

Our studio generally closes for a fortnight over Christmas which is our summer. Thought I wasn't going to cope last year! The first day the studio reopened, I was there, ready to go! :lol:

[KevinL]

I've cancelled My Monday and Thursday night classes because those venues are already small, and would probably not be worth the effort during the summer. Besides, teaching is presently a second job and I want to be able to enjoy part of my summer as well!

I'm continuing my Tuesday night classes, and other teachers continue through the summer.

Kevin

[ShyDancer]

I find it much slower in the winter around here. Summer is rocking! Lots more people show up for the summer classes, now that its cold and miserable the numbers drop.

[dancin_feet]

I find it much slower in the winter around here. Summer is rocking! Lots more people show up for the summer classes, now that its cold and miserable the numbers drop.

It's strange isn't it? I actually started dancing again in the middle of winter last year. You would think that people would want to get out and move around to stay warm rather than just sit on the couch! Oh well, maybe I'm just one of the strange ones!! :lol:

[ShyDancer]

I know! Id rather be dancing than sitting in front of the heater feeling sorry for myself.

But maybe...just maybe they arent as die-hard as we are ? :shock:

[dancin_feet]

I know! Id rather be dancing than sitting in front of the heater feeling sorry for myself.

But maybe...just maybe they arent as die-hard as we are ? :shock:

:shock: Not possible!! :lol:

[salsachinita]

I actually started dancing again in the middle of winter last year.

Do you get real winter blues up there too :shock: ?

For us die-hard club dancers, winter isn't a bad thing :wink: ! All the woosies stay home being couch potatoes while we have MORE floor space to ourselves :D !

I miss my Salsa on St. Kilda beach though :cry: .......

[dancin_feet]

I actually started dancing again in the middle of winter last year.

Do you get real winter blues up there too :shock: ?

For us die-hard club dancers, winter isn't a bad thing :wink: ! All the woosies stay home being couch potatoes while we have MORE floor space to ourselves :D !

I miss my Salsa on St. Kilda beach though :cry: .......

Unfortunately I feel the cold really badly. Don't think I would survive in Melbourne! Anything below mid 20's and I need at least long sleeves!

[Sagitta]

I actually started dancing again in the middle of winter last year.

Do you get real winter blues up there too :shock: ?

For us die-hard club dancers, winter isn't a bad thing :wink: ! All the woosies stay home being couch potatoes while we have MORE floor space to ourselves :D !

I miss my Salsa on St. Kilda beach though :cry: .......

Unfortunately I feel the cold really badly. Don't think I would survive in Melbourne! Anything below mid 20's and I need at least long sleeves!

20 celsius? That's nothing!! Cold. Are you ill, ooh, I feel you need a liitle help. Let me warm you with some really close dancing, really close dancing. :wink: :) Speaking of close dancing, and going off a tangent...I found myself dancing really close for bachata and the various dances quite a bit tonight. :? Really felt a connection and could do a lot more dancing wise then I usually do. :)

In summer the dancing schedule used to change over here, but now latin dancing is becoming a year around affair with ballroom suffering, really suffering. There is a latin dance and a social dance this Friday with a beginner salsa lesson, a latin dance two weeks after that, latin nights every Tuesday, some sort of latin practice Thursdays at various places. Nothing like this last year. Plus Monday nights latin classes that i'm going to help with...

Wish me luck with the rueda classes the next two Sundays. If this goes well I may be able to convince people to include this as a dance for the kids in the folk dance class to learn every semester at Cornell. This is why this is very important for me. Must get more latin into every possible venue.

Oh, yes. Speaking of Cornell, Cornell just started a salsaerobics class. Great instructor. She has the latin motion down pat, with fantastic ladies styling. I'm recommending it to all my friends who want to laern lady styling. :)

[MacMoto]

Unfortunately I feel the cold really badly. Don't think I would survive in Melbourne! Anything below mid 20's and I need at least long sleeves!
In my part of the world, anything above 20 Celsius is called "summer weather" and people complain it's too hot for dancing. Mid 20's and above and it's "a heat wave". :lol:

[pygmalion]

It's all relative. At about 20 Celsius where I live, people start wearing their heavy winter parkas. :shock: I'm not kidding. :lol:

[Kitty]

It's all relative. At about 20 Celsius where I live, people start wearing their heavy winter parkas. :shock: I'm not kidding. :lol:

I saw that in South of France:-). Cause if they don't do it now when will they have another opportunity to show off their coat?:-)

[pygmalion]

Exactly. The minks come out when the temp goes down to 50F. You never know. It may not get cooler, so take the opportunity to show off whenever it comes. :wink: :D

[Sagitta]

Okay a high of 61 F today and I was in a T-shirt, and slacks. :wink: :)

[dancin_feet]

Okay a high of 61 F today and I was in a T-shirt, and slacks. :wink: :)

What's the calculation for celsius? From what I know celsius is more than half of farenheit so looks like it would have been a bit chilly for me today!! :lol:

Please come and dance me around Sagitta and warm me up!! We are only 3 days into winter here and I'm cold already! :wink:

[pygmalion]

Hi of 61? It's June!!! High of 95 here. :D

[MacMoto]

Okay a high of 61 F today and I was in a T-shirt, and slacks. :wink: :)

What's the calculation for celsius?
61F is 16C. The way I remember is:

60F is about 16C (warm - get your t-shirt out)
70F is about 20C (summer - go sunbathing! :D)
80F is about 26C (heat wave! - melt in the sun :lol:)
90F -- don't bother, we won't get it :lol: (though we got close last summer).

Alternatively, you can use Google to do the conversion. Type in "61F in celsius" and it will give you the equivalent figure (16.1111111 degrees Celsius, apparently).

[twnkltoz]

Here in Sacramento, the summers are 100+f for most of the summer, and we can only get the studio just so cool (the ceiling is very, very high). We tend to slow down in the summer, but we still offer 9-10 classes per night and dances every friday and saturday. We do cancel classes if there aren't enough people in them, but out of the 38 or whatever classes we offer each week, only a couple will be cancelled due to lack of participation.

[pygmalion]

Maybe climate is part of it. Here, the summers are 90 - 100F, with 90% humidity or greater and daily severe thunderstorms. Maybe it's just too much to expect people to go out dancing much. :roll: :?:

[Sagitta]

No excuse is acceptable for not dancing. :wink: :)

[dancin_feet]

Never understood what the weather has to do with dancing. At our studio you are in an airconditioned building, what difference does it make?

Other than one time where there was a wild storm that I thought was going to blow the roof off my house, there are pretty much no weather conditions that will stop me from going to dancing!

[pygmalion]

Florida's a little different. In the summer, we have some wild, wild thunderstorms, often every day for a period of months. Once people go home, they sometimes don't make it out again.

[dr daffy]

No excuse is acceptable for not dancing. :wink: :)

i so agree :D

[dr daffy]

here in maryland the weather is incredibly boring. snow in winter, rain in spring, sun and some rain in summer, and wind in fall.

as much as i hate that they get rid of most dance classes in the summer, it's my favorite season, lol

[bjp22tango]

[quote="dr daffy"]here in maryland the weather is incredibly boring. snow in winter, rain in spring, sun and some rain in summer, and wind in fall.

Don't forget the humidity. I moved to Columbia, MD from Newport, OR in the early 80's. I moved in February. I still remember the first spring day. looking out of my window, running downstairs to go out into the great weather.... and was hit with a wall of heat I couldn't believe. It was only about 70 f and I felt like I was being boiled :D
I lived in Maryland 8 years and I never did truly aclimatize (sp).
Maryland was the first place I heard of that let school out for hot days, because the buildings don't have air conditioning.
I did get used to going to Swing dances with a couple of extra shirts and a towel though... something I still do here.

Here on the Oregon coast our weather is Sun, Wind and Fog in summer; Sun, wind, and rain in fall; Rain, wind and fog in winter; and wind, rain, fog, and sun in Spring :D We tend to wear shorts as soon as any sun stays out for longer than 15 mins, so it could be 50f and windy and people will be walking around in shorts and flip flops right alongside the tourists in their heavy coats LOL

[pygmalion]

Oh thank goodness! I got a job offer there earlier this year, and, just by the sound of it, I'd never survive! :shock: :lol:

[Genesius Redux]

Acceptable excuse for not dancing--

It's been sunny and clear and in the 80s here in Nashville. I'm lying out by the pool. 8)

[pygmalion]

What! Not dancing because of a little sunshine? Scandalous! :shock: :lol:

[Genesius Redux]

What! Not dancing because of a little sunshine? Scandalous! :shock: :lol:

The view is currently better at the pool. 8)

[pygmalion]

Silly man!

[Sagitta]

Just put on some music, do your wiggle wiggle thing and you'll soon have even more to look at and even closer..n'est pas? :wink: :)

[pygmalion]

Not necessarily. Women are strange and incomprehensible creatures, sometimes. :wink: :lol:

[DancePoet]

I'm considering cutting back on the time spent taking lessons over the summer, but it will be difficult to resist my usual amount of social dancing!

However, all dancing, and nothing else (oooh...I am imagining some other very nice things...and GR's pool side example is one of many enticing ideas milling around in my mind...) might create an imbalance in the ever widening of life's variety of experiences.