The Katz Modern Line Dancers!

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Post Easter classes...

Dear Dancers,

Tonight (Wednesday 27th April) we are open for business as usual at Six Villages Sports Centre (behind Westergate Community School) from 6.30 (beginners) to 9.45 p.m.) for a mere £3 for one hour 15 mins....or £4 to stay all night!

This Fridays class in the Newell Centre is cancelled due to a royal family somewhere having a Wedding and someone is filming the shenanigans on TV and making us all stay home to watch it! Tee Hee....I for one WILL be watching - I like a wedding! especially a big fancy one! So I will see you all next week (Friday 6th May)..

Saturdays class at the Viking is on from 1 p.m. as usual - if you are an absolute beginner your class is from 1 - 2 p.m. please do come along as early as possible.....Improvers/intermediates and advanced dancers classes run from 2 - 4 p.m.!

next Monday is yet another Bank Holiday and so we are open on TUESDAY instead..(just like we were this week - thank you to everyone that came out and had a boogie with me!)......so Ill see you then!

Thats all for now folks! See you in a class sometime very soon..

Julie xxx

Monday 18 April 2011

Week beginning April 17th 2011!!

Dear Dancers!!

Well the sun is shining and April is getting its act together - with lovely light evenings line dancing is more fun than ever....tonight we will fling the windows and doors open at Oak Lodge and boogie on down to some fabulous summery, happy smiley music!!

All classes are open this week as normal apart from Friday at the Newell Centre which is closed for Good Friday....next Monday Oak Lodge is closed for the Bank Holiday BUT WE ARE IN ON TUESDAY INSTEAD!!!!! whooopie I hear you cry haha....

Well Im off to get ready for class now......

See you in a class sometime soon!

Julie x

Friday 15 April 2011

Friday 15th April - CLASS CANCELLED!

Dear dancers, many apologies but I have a very bad migraine that got a whole lot worse when I drove to the hall today at midday.......I put a notice on the door - Im so sorry I didnt get time to give you a warning not to come along, and hope you understand the reason why?

Our Friday classes are closed for the next two weeks also due to Good Friday and the Royal Weddding - so I will see you all again on the 6th May..

My apologies once again...

Julie (going for a lie down in a darkened room....)

Tuesday 5 April 2011

April in The Katz Line Dance Club!

Dear Dancers.....

Firstly can I just thank you all for taking party in this year's Daffodil Dance at Oak Lodge, Six Villages and (unexpectedly!) also at The Newell Centre in Chichester!

I am very pleased to announce that YOU raised a grand total of £179.52p in your combined efforts of buying Daffodil Pins, raffle tickets for Easter Bunnies, glasses of lemonade, cups of tea and coffee and biccies!! Every penny was added up and I have today (Tuesday 5th April) banked the cash and posted the cheque to the Marie Curie Cancer Care group on your behalf! Many many thanks for all your efforts, and, I have to say this bit too, for agreeing to learn said 'Daffodil Dance' even tho the music may not have been to everyones taste!! tee hee....The dance in question that was taught is called 'Baby Tonight' and is by Robbie McGowan Hickie (for those of you who may want to look it up and have a practice at home)

OAK LODGE NEWS....MONDAY NIGHTS...

As you all know there are THREE Bank Holiday Mondays coming up - one in april (25th ) and two in May (2nd and 30th)....because closing the classes on Bank Holidays puts us all out so much, the school have agreed to let me run the classes on THE TUESDAYS of those weeks instead......so there are NO CLASS CLOSURES AT ALL - NOT IN THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS - EASTER HOLIDAYS - OR ANYTIME SOON!!!

Classes are ON as normal EVERY Monday - apart from on the three bank holiday Mondays when the classes will run on TUESDAYs instead..

I hope Ive made this clear - haha - I know people often get confused by my attempts to get information across - so if you have any doubts as to what Ive just typed - PLEASE DO CONTACT ME ON 07799741288, either by a quick text or a quick call.....Im happy to help! hehe...

SIX VILLAGES - WEDNESDAY NIGHTS

There are NO class closures imminent at all for the next few months....yipee!

THE NEWELL CENTRE - FRIDAY AFTERNOONS

There is ONE class closure in April - and that is the day of THE ROYAL WEDDING! Friday 29th April........we did a quick show of hands and the vast majority of dancers would not be able to make dancing that day even if I were to open - so lets all take the day off and watch the wedding on the telly.....nice....!! Tea, biccies and cucumber sandwiches at our sides - haha....

VIKING CLASSES - SATURDAY AFTERNOONS...

there are NO closures to take place on these classes for the foreseeable future.....

SPECIAL SOCIAL IN AID OF THE JAPANESE DISASTER FUND....

ON SUNDAY 29th MAY (THAT'S MAY AND NOT APRIL!!) I will be holding a special line dance social to raise funds for this incredibly worthy cause...I'm sure we all sat and watched in horror as the tsunami swept across the coastline of Japan and felt totally helpless? I know we did....and there isnt anything we, so far away, CAN do except raise much needed funds to send to those places that need so much help to put their lives back together. So, with those charitable thoughts in mind, we really hope you will support Riley for an evening of LINE DANCING at the Newell Centre, Tozer Way, Chichester.....

Doors will open at 7 p.m. and close at 10.30 p.m.

We have been given the hall FREE OF CHARGE by the committee (thank you very much!!)

I am giving my services FREE OF CHARGE, and the lovely Steve Riley (of Westcoasters fame) is also giving his services FREE OF CHARGE...which means that every single penny taken on the door that night will go straight to the charity!!!

Tickets are only £5 each....you can bring your own drinks and nibbles - and if you have something you would like to donate to a 'Raffle Table' please do that also....we are keeping costs to the barest minimum so that we can raise as much money as we can.

We have a maximum of 60 tickets to sell - and tickets for our socials SELL OUT FAST!! so Please do let me know ASAP if you would like me to reserve tickets for you...

Tickets will be on sale in all West Sussex classes soon......

Other news....

If you have yet to pay your deposit for next years trip to Bournemouth - returning to the lovely Wessex Hotel...please do ask me for a booking form in class.....everyone that came on this years trip has a guaranteed reserved place (unless you have told me otherwise) so do NOT panic if you havent booked yet....we have had to close the books for any new dancers wanting to join us now as we have had several new people giving us deposits (thank you!) and do not want to overcrowd the venue....however IF you are bitterly disappointed that the annual trip is full, do not dispair as we have laid on a SECOND LINE DANCE BREAK!!!

This August sees our first ever SUMMER TIME SPECIAL three day midweek break to SOUTHSEA.......staying at the rather lovely Royal Beach Hotel (right across from the beach in Southsea) from Tuesday August 16th to Friday August 19th...we are offering three days and nights of line dance fun for only £179 each......this includes return coach travel!! (sorry we are unable to give a discount for any self drivers as the cost has been equally spread across the trip to enable more people to join us!)..however if you do not require the coach, you are, of course, very welcome to self drive and join us at the hotel....

Please do email me on julieandthekatz@msn.com for a booking form - or ask me for one in class...

Ok folks!! I thinks thats all our news for now...(I can hear you all saying 'ABOUT TIME!!!') so I look forward to seeing you all in a class, somewhere, sometime, very soon....

oh there is something else!!

Dances recently taught in class (all levels ) are:-

SPEAK TO THE SKY - WALK THE LINE - ONE STEP FORWARD - BABY TONIGHT - STUCK WITH YOU - I'M NO GOOD - DR. WANNA DO - DANCING IN CIRCLES - and our 'blast from the past' KIND OF MAGIC!!!

take care peeps!

Julie xxx