Join Us For an Evening of Ballroom and Social Dance
Triangle StarDusters Ballroom Dance Club offers a welcoming space for dance lovers and newcomers to gather monthly to connect with beautiful music and like-minded ballroom dance enthusiasts. Each event features a one-hour lesson by a professional instructor followed by two and a half hours of dancing.
Join us on Saturday, December 13th, and Encounter Samba.
Multiple Rhythms, One Dance
Dancing to Samba music can seem intimidating. The tempo is fast and there are multiple rhythms that are hard to sort out at first. West Coast Swing sort of works, sometimes Salsa works, Hustle mostly works. But none of these really capture the feeling of the music. They just leave out way too much of what you’re hearing.
That’s because this music is built on a combination of African and Latin American rhythms which, when blended together, form a complex but super infectious new rhythm, a rhythm to which you’ll feel compelled to dance.
Pop artists have known this for decades: think of “Macarena”, or the Bee Gee’s “Stayin’ Alive” or Elvis Presley’s “Latest Flame”. These songs are so much fun to dance to, despite their fast tempo, because they have a Samba rhythm. But getting Samba to feel right and to be able to lead and follow does require some practice. Still, we social dancers can begin to dance to Samba music by learning just the basic parts of the rhythm and then learning basic figures and technique to go with it. To help us sort all this out we need great teachers to get us started at this dance, teachers such as Ian McAreavy and Madison Burnette.
Ian is an NC State alumnus and an Open level competitor in all four Dancesport styles. He has taught Ballroom and Latin dancing for more than 15 years for university ballroom dance organizations and privately owned studios. He is a nationally ranked USA Dance competitor and travels extensively to regional and national competitions. Ian works as the lead entomologist at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC.
Madison is also an NC State alumna. She competes at the Open level in American Smooth and International Latin styles and helps coach Latin and Rhythm styles for the NC State ballroom dance team. She is a nationally ranked USA Dance competitor and travels the East Coast to regional and national competitions. She works as an Environmental Scientist based in Raleigh.
So join us on December 13th for an evening of engaging Samba and ballroom dance. Dance fits perfectly with the spirit of lively joy that we all want for this holiday season. We’ll do our part to help make it a reality.
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Stardusters Location:
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro St, Carrboro, NC 27510
(Note: Enter by going up the steps near the fountain on Weaver Street)