Dance News

 

From this weekend till May 1 we can dance every Saturday.   Silvio has a dance Mar 13, I'm having my 5th Anniversary Dance (start of year 6) Mar 20, then my Easter Dance Mar 27, then Bill's dance, then my dance, then Silvio....   Life is good

And that's just the Saturday dances.  Robyn Picard and Maggie Bretton also have Friday dances - Click the "Lower Mainland Dance Calendar above!

 

My March 20 Dance

Celebrating 5 years of dances and the start of year 6!

All regular tickets are reduced $5.00 as a big thank to everyone who’s supported us all these years! Every ticket $10.00 for this celebratory night! In addition, I’m giving away an Official DVD set of the Olympic Games and two pairs of Official Olympic wool Mitts! According to the Olympic Store the DVD’s will be available by April 10. So if you’re the lucky winner at my Mar 20 dance you will be able to get it from me at a future dance!

To book a table reservation click here

Date:        Saturday, March 20 2010
Place:       RMSS Ballroom @ the RMSS – 12150 - 224thStreet, Maple Ridge
Contact:    Ray Johnson 836-7295 or rayj@ilovetodance.ca
Price:        All tickets $10.00 for this night!
Teacher:    Robyn Picard
Lesson:     7:00-8:00 - Beginner / Intermediate Single Rhythm Jive Lesson
Dance:       8:00-12:00 (doors open at 7:00)
Details:      As with our regular dances we serve Tim Horton's coffee decaf & Regular, Starbucks Tazo tea, assorted juices & pop, plus a large food layout, including snacks, veggies & fruits.

Also mark your calendar for my March 27 Easter Dance. Easter decorations and I’ll be giving away Chocolates! More about that in my next

 

Olympic info you may not know!

 

Wow, we’re 1/6th through 2010, how time flies! And the Olympics! What a show the Olympic committee put on, what a performance from our athletes, and what spirit it engendered in all Canadians. Although we’re told not to worry, as an accountant I can’t see how the numbers will add up. A reporter quoted a month ago “This has been Jim Furlong’s dream for 10 years”, our Premier stated Sunday “you can’t put a price on the inspiration of these games”. Maybe that’s why HST is so important to our government. 

Most impressive were the level of detail for the entire event. It really was ultra slick and CTV must have had some of the best graphics artists working for them because when something happened or someone won Gold, we had cool graphics with that persons pictures incorporated in them within minutes.

The Olympic theme song “I Believe” was written by a 37 year old Toronto composer Stephan Moccio who’s also penned songs for Celine Dion, Josh Grobin and Sarah Brightman over 5 years ago. My first clue that so much thought was put into the music came about when Joannie Rochette lost her mom and CTV played a version of the song that was very soulful and sad. In fact there were 220 different versions/cuts made of the song! Stephan who was overwhelmed by the theme song our own David Foster wrote for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, was driving when the tune came to him. Years later he played it for Alan Frew, frontman for Glass Tiger and who then wrote the lyrics for it now with a title “I Believe”. A while later at a dinner party they cornered consortium president Keith Pelley and told him they had his theme song, and the rest is history. Celine Dion was asked to sing the song, but she declined and eventually 15 year old Nikki Yanofsky and Annie Villeneuve delivered the song to us.
 

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