Rice Social Dance Society

At the election meeting today, RSDS chose new officers for the 2008-2009 school year.

We are excited to announce that Robbie and Emilia will serve as Co-Presidents for next year. They are excited to hear your ideas and suggestions: robbie.fraleigh(at)rice.edu and emilia.m.stepinski(at)rice.edu

The full roster of new officers is as follows:

Presidents
Emilia Stepinski and Robbie Fraleigh

Treasurers
Michael Dirk and Joe Chang

Publicity and Logistics
Michael Rog

Ballroom Coordinator
Becky Saunders

Swing and Tango Coordinator
Hailey Hinson

Music Director
Michael Rog

Advanced Instruction Facilitators
Emilia Stepinski and Robbie Fraleigh

Harvest Moon Ball Event Chair
Hailey Hinson

Dances With Owls Event Co-Chairs
Emilia Stepinski and Robbie Fraleigh

We also extend gratitude to everyone who served as an officer this year. It has been an amazingly successful year for us — lots of new members and new interest in the program, several awesome workshops (most recently, a HUGE turnout for the West Coast Swing event), and lots of competition wins. Thank you to…

Zhe Loy (2007-2008 President), Michael Dirk, Emilia Stepinski, Joe Chang, Robbie Fraleigh, Hailey Hinson, and Laura Liem

West Coast Swing is one of the most fun and versatile social dances. It can be danced to almost any music written in 4/4 time at speeds ranging from very slow to very fast. Any music from hip hop to blues can be used to dance WCS.

On Sunday April 6th (the sunday of Spring Recess) there will be a west coast swing workshop for beginners taught by a professional dancer Ben Hooten. Ben is 22 years old and has been dancing for 13 years.

The Details:

3:00-4:30: Lesson in the Grand Hall (Students only)
4:30-5:30: Free Dancing

No partner necessary!

and… it’s FREE!

Check out this YouTube video of Ben dancing West Coast Swing:

If these videos don’t convince you to come learn this awesome dance then consider that:

This workshop is….

• perfect for making up a class for a dancing LPAP!
• a great way to learn moves for both hip hop and blues music!
• an excellent place to meet new people!
• a wonderful way to find a date…?

Monday January 14th will be the first day of dance classes in the Grand Hall starting at 7:00 pm.

RSDS 2007 Competition

Sunday November 11th 2007

12pm to 6pm in the Rice Student Center Grand Hall

Newcomer, Intermediate and Advanced categories plus fun dances

$3 per individual and $5 per couple

Free for spectators

LOTS OF PRIZES

Everybody is welcome!

For more information email rdf@rice.edu

Harvest Moon Ball will be:

Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Rice University, Grand Hall

The Harvest Moon Ball, held every Fall, is a co-sponsored HSDS and Rice Social Dance Society event. Come out and join us for a night of swing dancing!

Classes will start next week. Ballroom and Latin on Wednesday, September 12th in the Grand Hall at 7:00 and Swing on Thursday, September 13th in Willy’s Pub at 7:00

There will be no regular RSDS summer classes.

The UH dance classes start this Sunday, June 10. Beginner is 4-5, Intermediate 5-6, and Advanced 6-7, then open floor after that.

It’s held in the Cougar Den, on the ground floor of the UH Student Center (down the atrium stairs, diagonally across the atrium from the arcade/games room). The Student Center is just northwest of the corner of University Drive and Calhoun Rd.

Welcome to the new RSDS website. This new site will be much easier for us to keep updated! Let me know if you see any info missing from here. I am working on getting the pages more filled out.

In the mean time, check the new schedule out in the class schedule page!