Desert Swing Dance Club Newsletter

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1 WINTER 2016 Desert Swing Dance Club Newsletter P.O. Box 2001, Rancho Mirage, CA PRESIDENT Ann McGowan (760) CO - PRESIDENTS Rich Stenton & Paula Matos (760) VICE PRESIDENT & MARKETING & PUBLICITY Ron Bishop (951) ronfbishop@outlook.com Dear members, President s Message This is my eighth and final newsletter as you will have a new president when the next newsletter comes out. In some ways the last four years have gone quickly. We have weathered the transition of multiple dance locations and are now nicely settled into our permanent home, have negotiated a new contract with the Pavilion, have had many wonderful events and are financially sound. Our membership continues to grow and our demographic is getting younger. This has all been accomplished by a board that has generously worked together to resolve any of our issues. I have been so fortunate to work with such wonderful people. To the whole board I give my deepest gratitude and thanks for a job well done. This quarter saw us have the best Welcome Back Pizza party. So many people attended it was surprising but we did not run short of pizza, salad or dessert thanks to Josie Nelson s great planning. We also had a beautiful Holiday Party where everything seemed perfect. The board was gratified to have so many positive comments about the event. I am pleased to announce we will have the party at Desert Island again next year. Feb. 20 th is the date for our Tri City party. We plan to have about as many dancers as last year. If you have never attended a Tri City party it is truly fun to see 240 mostly senior citizens dancing and having such a great time. It is now time to renew your membership and think about what talents you have that you can contribute to the club. We have had people volunteer for all the board positions but one. If there is one that you are particularly interested in doing and want to volunteer we will have an election for that position. We are in great need of someone to edit the newsletter as Chase Berke, who has done a fantastic job, wishes to move on to other things. There are four newsletters sent out per year and if you have expertise in this area please step forward. It has been my pleasure to serve you and I look forward to seeing all of you at our dances. Ann SECRETARY Polly Culbreth - Past President (760) dsdcsecretary@yahoo.com TREASURER Sara Roth Avenida San Fernando Indio, CA (630) slr704@gmail.com EVENTS Josie Nelson (760) MEMBERSHIP & OPERATIONS Larry Soriano Send Payments to Treasurer Sara Roth CARES & CONCERNS Donna Lofgren lofgrend@aol.com PUBLICITY Ursula Auer Longo Text NEWSLETTER Chase Berke chaseberke@hotmail.com WEBMASTER Larry Kroeze (562) larrykroeze@aol.com Visit us online at desertswingdanceclub.com We are licensed through affiliation with the National Fast Dance Assn.

2 WINTER 2016 Desert Swing Dance Club Newsletter DANCE SCHEDULE Dance Every Tuesday Night: 7-9 PM PAVILION DANCE STUDIO 401 S. PAVILION WAY PALM SPRINGS, CA Main intersections: Sunrise Way and Baristo, Baristo to Pavilion way. Just west of Camelot Theatre, FREE PARKING ALTERNATING INSTRUCTORS Janis Hill with Beginning & Beyond West Coast Swing Raymond Stanton with West Coast Swing, Country & other dances DANCE LESSONS Every Tuesday Night: 6-6:50 PM Members: $ 7 Dance $12 Lesson & Dance Non- Members: $15 Lesson & Dance Members & Non-Members: $10 Lesson Only can also access Facebook from your smartphone. And directly to our Facebook page. Now that is cool! DSDC needs you to LIKE us on FACEBOOK and View this Newsletter on our website. If you like our newsletter and our photos then DSDC needs you to access these newsletters online. Why? It s a geeky newsletter but that also greatly increases the file size. And a large file is not very good for ing. Images take up more bits and bytes than words. Then when we compress them for they are not as clear as you probably would like. The solution is for our members to access the newsletter from the DSDC website by clicking on link to the Newsletter in . Then your is not clogged up with an attachment that the Internet Provider doesn t like, and it s easier for you to directly save that file on your computer. Some of the images can then be removed from the newsletter for your use. But we will save that for another Please link to us on FACEBOOK. We now have 53 LIKES on Face Book. If Facebook but we have 147 members. So where are you guys? We had more of our members on Facebook, we would post more of these pictures. And once you are on Facebook, you can share your mug with friends, children, grandchildren, and the press and show the world what a wonderful dancer you are! The truth is we haven t done Facebook. WE NEED YOU ON FACEBOOK. It s fun and easy, and convenient for getting the word out! HERE IS HOW TO SIGN UP FOR FACEBOOK: If you don't have a Facebook account, you can sign up in a few easy steps. To sign up for a brand new account, enter your name, birthday, gender, and address into the form on Then pick a password. After you complete the sign up form, they will send an to the address you provided. Just click the confirmation link to complete the sign up process. Now all you need to do is search for the Desertswingdanceclubdsdc and click on the LIKE button. Then you will be notified if we post something to Facebook. You if you take a great picture at one of our dances, you can post it Dance Bag Holds a couple pairs of dance shoes, water bottles and any other essentials That you can think of. Various colors are available. Can be purchased at Tuesday night dance for $18. Each. BEYOND the BEAT DANCE STUDIO Cook St. Suite 401 Palm Desert, CA (In Back by Dental Spa} JANIS HILL, Dance Instructor RAY STANTON Dance Instructor Dancing with Ray 4 th Sun Monthly at BUDDY SCHWIMMER S THE DANCE CENTER Swing, Country and More!

3 DDddP lllkkkk 2016 Desert Swing Dance Club Newsletter WINTER It s Always Time to Register or Renew your DSDC Membership Newsletter Yes or No Avenida San Fernando, Indio, CA Treasurer, Sara Roth Please fill out completely for our update and data entry Birthday & s To Receive Membership Discounts and Benefits Please Renew by March 1, 2016! Non-Renewals after the first will pay Non-Member price. Ann McGowan 58 Calle Solano Rancho Mirage, CA Forwarding Address & Corrections Requested

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6 2016 DESERT SWING DANCE CLUB WINTER DANCERS SPOTLIGHT DJ RANDY DJ Randy, You Rock and Roll Thanks for the great music. You keep us on our feet with those cool, cool beats. Congratulations! To our Scott Tansor who won a prize at Jay Byam s Swing Boot Camp Extravaganza. Scott, everyone hopes to dance with you every week! I think we will have to start taking numbers. I ve got mine. Come and learn from these outstanding instructors. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Basic West Coast Swing Brand new dancers come join the fun And learn your basic West Coast Swing Steps. Intermediate dancers Et_ Brandy and Jay show you some great skills for pol fishing your dance while you have lots of fun 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm Interm - Adv. West Coast Swing Connection skills and exciting social moves. Let Jay & Brandy show you some GREAT Lead and follow skills while you learn some fun moves for social West Coast Swing. Coming Soon! Thursday Salsa Night In Palm Springs Hosted by Jay & Brandy Contact: Jay, jaybdancer@aol.com Brandy, pwdpsreg@gmail.com This is going to be a great day of West Coast Swing. Please invite your dance friends. New dancers are welcome. Prepay online Special Prices $15 pre pay per class I $20 at the door per class or $28 for both Classes pre pay / $35 at the door You do not miss this fun day of swing dancing and invite your friends; because they'll love it too.

7 2016 DESERT SWING DANCE CLUB WINTER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL 18 Marcie Fiorindo 20 Sara Roth 26 Ken Olsen 05 Carrol Kennedy 06 Marilynne Highducheck 10 Barry Neumayer 15 Lynn Fontana-Krohn 23 Bob Lloyd 25 Humberto Perez 28 Polly Culbreth 31 Charlotte Andre 01 Cheri Hamilton 05 Phillip Highducheck 16 Stuart Ingwersen 16 Ann McGowan 30 Raymond Stanton GREAT MUSIC AND DANCING WEBSITES * * * Beach music: * * * Great Music: * Global Swing Deejays: Great Variety of music and artists: * Great Popular Song site: * GREAT Shag Video- Shag Nation - * What is Lindy Hop? * Johnny Hensley s Shag City the Television Show. First Quarter 2016 NFA NEWSLETTER Has been released and Is Available, Now.

8 2016 DESERT SWING DANCE CLUB WINTER WHERE DO WE DANCE NOW? _ LOOKING AT ONE MAJOR PROBLEM DANCE CLUBS OFTEN HAVE.. Why can t some dance clubs (bars, lounges, etc., that allow dancing by patrons) survive? It seems they often don t, closing for one reason or another, but usually financial in nature. In other words, they don t make enough money. Some reviews have shown that the same problem exists throughout the dance world. The answer or solution may be quite simple; more money per patron for each day of operation. One seemingly sure solution is much more difficult to enact and maintain and is certainly unpopular with many; for many venues to survive, dancers must pay to dance. When you walk into any dance club, you should expect to pay to get in. You cannot and should not expect to go in with no cover charge, drink tap water all night, or buy one drink or one beer and nurse it all night and expect the club to stay in business and support your dance habit. These clubs simply can t support your dance habits for free. Some serious estimates have put the figure of $15 per person per day on this. That is, monies spent at the club, whether to simply get in or combined with drinks purchased, etc. is income for operating the club. Let s face it, dancers often don t drink that much. There s a well-known expression Dancers don t drink and drinkers don t dance. It seems like dancers simply come to dance, not to drink. Like they want to have fun but not go home totally sloshed, maybe get arrested on the way, maybe cause a wreck and kill someone s Mama. This is an enigma to club owners, understandable, yet directly lending to the problem at hand. The fewer drinks sold, the smaller the revenue total. For whatever reason, good or not. So, if these dancers biting more drinks is not the answer, then the dreaded cover charge rears its ugly head. What else is there? The club has fixed, non-negotiable expenses rent usually, utilities, staffing, security, perhaps parking fees, who knows what else? Dance clubs nationwide sometimes end up spending this aforementioned $15 per person or more to simply maintain their venues. When dance clubs attempt to provide the same quality of service in their venues for less than this amount, history shows their days are often numbered. So the estimate that many clubs need at least $15 per person per day in order to survive, may be true. If you are walking into one of them and dancing all evening and you are not spending at least $15 in there, you may be contributing to the club s demise, and sometimes failure. $15 per person per day seems to be the magic number of many dance clubs. If you all had spent this much at those clubs that have closed, they might conceivably TO FINISH READING THE ARTICLE GO TO NFA WEBSITE AND DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE.