"Floating" Dance Floor
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DanceMentor
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A floating dance floor is elevated by "ribs" that keep it slightly above the concrete so that it has some give to it. If you go from dancing on a tile or marble foot to a floating floor, you'll really notice the difference because your feet and knees won't get sore as easily.
MissAlyssa
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oOoOo I want to dance on a floating dance floor!
MissAlyssa
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No, I haven't been there but I've been hearing a lot about it. I don't travel to Chandler too often [it's in the boonies lol] but I'm sure it would be worth my while! So how are you enjoying this weather? lol :lol:
Spitfire
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MissAlyssa said:
The Paragon seems to be the best place up there; in the three times I've been there I've enjoyed it tremendously. It's worth the one and three quarter hour drive and back when done every so often. Last night at the dance I go to here there was a couple that came down here who also go there. Lonnie Mitchell who is the owner of the Paragon taught down here at two studios that I took lessons from when I first started out.
Where do you do your dancing at? I've also been to the Kyote.
The weather? not enjoying it as usual this time of year, but the big concern here is the Aspen fire in the Catalinas
MissAlyssa
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I do most of my dancing at my studio, the bash on ash, at my father's house [he's got a room with wood flooring] or just when I go out at night.
Oh yea, you are down there where all the fires are going on! How contained are they? I haven't had time to watch the news lately.
Oh yea, you are down there where all the fires are going on! How contained are they? I haven't had time to watch the news lately.
Spitfire
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MissAlyssa said:I do most of my dancing at my studio, the bash on ash, at my father's house [he's got a room with wood flooring] or just when I go out at night.
Oh yea, you are down there where all the fires are going on! How contained are they? I haven't had time to watch the news lately.
About 55% containment, but you wouldn't know that from seeing it.
You have a studio?
MissAlyssa
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No, I don't own one, but at the Fred Astaire studio that I am an instructor at. That IS my goal for the next 5 years though I might add..hehe 
Spitfire
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MissAlyssa said:No, I don't own one, but at the Fred Astaire studio that I am an instructor at. That IS my goal for the next 5 years though I might add..hehe
One of the instructors from the studio I go to moved there about five years ago and was teaching at one of the Fred Astaire's up there. Her name is Krista.
MissAlyssa
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Does she have a husband named Chris?
MissAlyssa
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Hmm, I'd have to ask. I never knew her maiden name. She's an awesome dancer if it's the same girl. She's not teaching at the moment because she's had a child. Who knows :?:
Spitfire
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MissAlyssa said:
She taught here at the Arizona Ballroom Company where I do most of my dancing. I took some private lessons from her. She came down to visit one time and that's the last I saw of her.
You may know a lady named Karen Maxwell; she taught at the Fred Astaire's here which later became Dance Centers USA and closed down a few years ago. She moved to Phoenix and was teaching as an independant. This I discovered when I went to the Paragon for the first time last year and saw her business cards on the table by the door.
MissAlyssa
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I'm fairly new to teaching so I do not know too many people I look forward to meeting a ton of people in the industry at the next comp.
I look forward to meeting a ton of people in the industry at the next comp.