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Welcome to Our Website!LOOKING FOR FUN, EXERCISE, AND NEW FRIENDS?
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| Ask any square dancer, and that person will tell you that dancing makes them happy and keeps them healthy. Square dancing is | |
Enjoy a video of Swedish caller Anna Johansson calling a square dance to "Super Trouper." It is posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWw8oH3EOhM. |
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SPECIAL NOTICE! SNOW CANCELLATION! Fox Valley Mixers' Mardi Gras Dance on Saturday, February 10, 2018, has been canceled due to weather conditions. Stay home. Stay warm. Stay safe! Join us at our upcoming dances! Our Clown Around Dance on April 14 will be at the Mainstream/C50 level. Bring your new dancers! |
Special - For those interested in a FREE introduction to this uniquely American dance hobby that can change your life, don't miss our FREE Square Dance Party on Sunday, September 17, 2017, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Baker Community Center. The dancing is at the fun level – no prior square dancing experience is needed. Laugh, have fun, enjoy today's music and free refreshments. All ages are welcome, and no partner is needed. Questions? Call Chuck or Bobbi (847-231-2291) or email kcdbc@aol.com), Marilyn or Jules (630-762-9936 or email preston52@comcast.net), Mona (708-703-7656), or Bob (630-308-3547 or email rdgsduke@hotmail.com). You've been intending to start getting more exercise. Do it NOW – in a way that is lots of fun! |
We hope you have a such a wonderful time at our Intro to Square Dancing Party that you decide to return the following week and begin square dancing lessons! We will have the same Caller/Instructor, Howard Hoffman; and lessons will be held each Sunday evening beginning September 24, 2017, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Baker Community Center. The leader verbalizes "calls" during the music that tell you what steps to take as you move to the beat of the music. As a new dancer you will learn and practice these calls during lessons. You are actually square dancing and having fun within a few minutes after the first lesson begins! |
Fox Valley Mixers is also sponsoring beginning Round Dance Lessons on Sundays at Baker Community Center that began September 24, 2017, from 4:30-6:00 p.m., taught by Howard and Anna Hoffman. The cost is just $60 per person per 10-week session! Round dancing is a type of social ballroom dancing in which the steps for each dance have been choreographed precisely to the music. You learn the names for the figures and the movements during lessons, and a cuer announces the steps just in time for the couples to dance them. The couples dance in a large circle around the room, with a counter-clockwise forward direction, and everyone is doing the same movements at the same time. For information about our Intro to Square Dance Party, Square Dance Lessons, and Round Dance Lessons, please contact Chuck or Bobbi at 847-231-2291 or by email at KCDBC@aol.com. |
GOT PRECONCEIVED IDEAS ABOUT SQUARE DANCING?
- This is not your school gym class.
- You don't have to wear a special costume.
- Much of the music is not country western.
- No dance skills are required.
We welcome people in all sorts of outfits – jeans, tee-shirts, short poufy skirts, long skirts, Western gear, or New York chic. If it’s decent, we endorse it. Today’s square dance music is a mix of traditional, popular, classics, and rock – basically, any music with a steady beat.
Teens to silver-haired new dancers are welcomed to the New Dancer program where they will be joined in squares with experienced dancers who provide gentle assistance while learning, practicing, and dancing.
ALREADY A SQUARE DANCER?
Join us for our regular and special dances. We normally dance at Baker Community Center, 101 South Second Street (Rt. 31), St. Charles, IL. Our dances are held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of most months from September through mid-May. NOTE NEW DANCE TIMES – Rounds are at 7:30 p.m., and squares are 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Refreshments are always served, and we try to have some fun themes to enliven each evening. Our full 2017-2018 Schedule is online including the themes for each dance. All dances are at the plus level except our Mainstream/C50 dances on February 10, 2018, and April 14, 2018.
For additional information contact Marilyn or Jules at 630-762-9936 or by email at preston52@comcast.net or Pat or Barb at 630-640-0616 or by email at Mrpacain@aol.com. Our banner is available at all dances through April 2018.
We have a wonderful wood floor, great snacks to enjoy, and lots of friendly smiling dancers ready to welcome you to our dances! We look forward to seeing you soon!
| The square dancing photos below include some taken at Baker Community Center and others taken at various locations from Anchorage, Alaska, to California, along with demos done before a Kane County Cougars baseball game, in a park, at a county fair, and even during a flash mob dance at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Dancers range in age from children to seniors and attire from very casual to dressy. Many dancers prefer to wear dressier clothing when dancing on New Year's Eve or at the Sweetheart Dance held each February by the MCASD (Metro Chicago Association of Square Dancers). No matter where we dance or the clothing styles we wear, square dancing is good exercise and a lot of fun!
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| Square dancing has been called friendship set to music. Join us at the Fox Valley Mixers Square Dance Club! |
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Email Susan Miller at GGM81@aol.com |
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This page last updated February 10, 2018. © 2014 Fox Valley Mixers Square Dance Club |
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