Dear Dancers,
Just a little note to remind you that the Viking is being used for a 'Party weekend' this coming weekend (March 20th) and so therefore there are NO free lessons on Saturday afternoon......if you have tickets for the Viking Party then lessons will be at 10.45 on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings......if you arent coming then I shall see you the following week at 1 p.m as usual!
Take care,
Julie x
p.s. the full itinerary for the weekend is now on Andys Viking site www.vikingcwdc.co.uk
The Katz Modern Line Dancers!
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Comic Relief Final Report!
Dear Dancers,
Well last night was our final night of raising money for the 2009 Comic Relief effort.
We raised a total of £103 at Oak Lodge, which when added to £104 from Westergates Class, £35 from Aldingbourne, and £80 from the afternoon class in Selsey is a grand total of....wait for it!!! (whilst I get my calculator out!)
£322.00!!!!!!!!!!!
We raised a total of £103 at Oak Lodge, which when added to £104 from Westergates Class, £35 from Aldingbourne, and £80 from the afternoon class in Selsey is a grand total of....wait for it!!! (whilst I get my calculator out!)
£322.00!!!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!!
A HUGE THANK YOU to all my lovely dancers for joining in with the fund raising effort - by dressing in red, wearing Red Noses, in some cases Silly wigs and special T shirts, buying cakes and donating raffle prizes and buying lots of tickets!!!
you are all superstars!
I will bring the receipt from the Bank for you all to see in your classes!
In addition to the £322 made by us, the Viking Crew also took it upon themselves to get donations for the raffle from all the local businesses and shops in Selsey and raised a huge £220 from holding an evening raffle at the club - well done gang!
More photos can be found on the 'photos' page of http://www.linedancingevents.com/
Julie x
Sunday, 15 March 2009
THE KATZ DO SOMETHING FUNNY FOR MONEY...The story so far...
Dear Dancers,
Well so far we have raised a grand total of £220.00 for comic relief in three Katz dance clubs! Thats three down and one to go! Tomorrow night in West Wickham in Kent we will be doing our final push for Comic Relief - so dont forget to bring along your cash and donations for the charity raffle!! Please try to wear something red, and dont forget those Red Noses!!!
Last Wednesday we kicked off our charity week in Westergate and had a huge turnout for the event - Raising £104.79 during the course of the evening!! Money was made from selling Red Nose Cakes (made by my own fair hands with a little help from Tescos!!!), dancers paid £1 to dance an A-Z of dances throughout the night - this was great fun - but BOY!!! did our legs ache at the end of it! Many thanks to everyone for joining in the spirit of this event by wearing something red and donning those red noses!
Photos from this event are on our photos page on http://www.linedancingevents.com/
On Friday afternoon - we had what I can only describe as an 'unusual' class.....on arrival at the hall I found I was locked out......Linda and I scratched our heads, and decided to run the beginners class from the car park! Luckily I had a cd on me with most of the music we needed and so with the occasional bemused passerby (erm, passing by) we linedanced in our red clothes (and thongs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) wearing red noses in the middle of the car park to my car radio!!
Thanks to Jane for allowing us to 'set up' the raffle in the back of her 4X4 which had a lovely big empty boot! haha We raised a total of £35 during the course of the afternoon - luckily the caretaker came along and let us in so that we had the improvers class actually in the building!! (although I must admit - I was a little sad to leave the car park!)
Photos from Friday are also on our main site http://www.linedancingevents.com/ just click on photos!!
Saturdays afternoon class took place at the Viking Club in Selsey - the dancers were in good spirits and four of them took control of the raffle and cake selling wearing red wigs and specially made Red Nose Day T shirts - photos from Saturday should be on the linedancingevents website shortly!
We raised a further £80 for Comic Relief during the afternoon......and thanks to the contributions from local stores and buisnesses in Selsey - the Viking made a further £220 for Comic Relief with a HUGE raffle during the evening session....many thanks to Sally, Sue, Lorna and Matt for doing such a great job!
Tomorrow night sees Oak Lodge School doing their bit for this great cause, and I will report back with a final figure on Tuesday....many thanks to everyone for all their efforts so far - and a big special thank to Linda for all her hard work on Wednesday and Friday....xxx
Other news!
Just a quick reminder that there are NO FREE LESSONS this coming Saturday (21st March) at the Viking due to the Mad March Weekender taking place...see Andys viking website for details of that event if you are interested in coming along....otherwise I will see you following Saturday at 1 p.m as usual!!
Take care everyone,
Julie x
Well so far we have raised a grand total of £220.00 for comic relief in three Katz dance clubs! Thats three down and one to go! Tomorrow night in West Wickham in Kent we will be doing our final push for Comic Relief - so dont forget to bring along your cash and donations for the charity raffle!! Please try to wear something red, and dont forget those Red Noses!!!
Last Wednesday we kicked off our charity week in Westergate and had a huge turnout for the event - Raising £104.79 during the course of the evening!! Money was made from selling Red Nose Cakes (made by my own fair hands with a little help from Tescos!!!), dancers paid £1 to dance an A-Z of dances throughout the night - this was great fun - but BOY!!! did our legs ache at the end of it! Many thanks to everyone for joining in the spirit of this event by wearing something red and donning those red noses!
Photos from this event are on our photos page on http://www.linedancingevents.com/
On Friday afternoon - we had what I can only describe as an 'unusual' class.....on arrival at the hall I found I was locked out......Linda and I scratched our heads, and decided to run the beginners class from the car park! Luckily I had a cd on me with most of the music we needed and so with the occasional bemused passerby (erm, passing by) we linedanced in our red clothes (and thongs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) wearing red noses in the middle of the car park to my car radio!!
Thanks to Jane for allowing us to 'set up' the raffle in the back of her 4X4 which had a lovely big empty boot! haha We raised a total of £35 during the course of the afternoon - luckily the caretaker came along and let us in so that we had the improvers class actually in the building!! (although I must admit - I was a little sad to leave the car park!)
Photos from Friday are also on our main site http://www.linedancingevents.com/ just click on photos!!
Saturdays afternoon class took place at the Viking Club in Selsey - the dancers were in good spirits and four of them took control of the raffle and cake selling wearing red wigs and specially made Red Nose Day T shirts - photos from Saturday should be on the linedancingevents website shortly!
We raised a further £80 for Comic Relief during the afternoon......and thanks to the contributions from local stores and buisnesses in Selsey - the Viking made a further £220 for Comic Relief with a HUGE raffle during the evening session....many thanks to Sally, Sue, Lorna and Matt for doing such a great job!
Tomorrow night sees Oak Lodge School doing their bit for this great cause, and I will report back with a final figure on Tuesday....many thanks to everyone for all their efforts so far - and a big special thank to Linda for all her hard work on Wednesday and Friday....xxx
Other news!
Just a quick reminder that there are NO FREE LESSONS this coming Saturday (21st March) at the Viking due to the Mad March Weekender taking place...see Andys viking website for details of that event if you are interested in coming along....otherwise I will see you following Saturday at 1 p.m as usual!!
Take care everyone,
Julie x
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
APOLOGIES!! AND COMIC RELIEF WEEK!!
Dear Dancers,
Firstly, I need to apologise to all my Monday dancers for not being able to run the class for you this week - I had a problem with my eye and needed to see an optician, everything is fine, but the advice was not to drive that day....but the class still went ahead without me, with the lovely Jacqui stepping in for me for the evening! Thank you very much Jacqui - I'm sure everyone had a lovely evening!
Moving on to happier things now....
Next week as you know is COMIC RELIEF day....which takes place on Friday 13th March.....
Well, I thought we could have a little bit of fun ourselves for Comic Relief.......(I can hear you all cheering now!!)
On Wednesday Evening (11th March) and also on Monday (16th March) I would like you to all wear something red, bring your red noses too if you have them! (they are available in Oxfam shops and Sainsburys for £1 each).....I will be baking cakes again! (oh no I hear you cry! Oh yes I shout back!! haha) But I have expert help in my cake making this time, so the cakes should actually be edible this time!
We will also have something lovely to raffle - possibly a cuddly Red Bear!
And....heres the most interesting bit.....we are going to dance the A-Z of dances......between the hours of 7.30 and 9 p.m.........
If you come to the 6.30 class - this will run as normal - with cakes for sale and a nice raffle.....so please bring some extra pennies along! If you would like to stay for the rest of the evening then you will have to pay an extra £1 - which I will donate to the charity!
If you dance from 7.30 - 8.30 we will be operating a split floor system for the whole session - should be lots of fun! Taking us from A to Z! which we hope to reach by 9 p.m.! We will stop at 8.30 for the second raffle as usual! Again if you usually only stay for an hour, but want to stay on to get to Z then please just pay an extra pound which will be donated to the charity....
From 9 p.m. to 9.45 I will be reviewing current intermediate teaches (thats if you have any energy left....)
For our Friday Class - please do bring your red noses along as it will actually be Red Nose Day - and we will have cakes and a special raffle, so please bring your pennies(pounds?) along and join in the fun!
Cameras at the ready! click click!
Other news........
Well week one back at the Viking was great fun! Thank you to everyone who came along to the afternoon class - I was astounded at the number! Brilliant! I taught six dances that day....(yep - six!) something for everyone......
We started off with:
Long Shot, and Rodeo Blues for the beginners hour
Dreamboat, and No more cloudy days for the improvers hour
and
Make my day, and Respect yourself for the intermediates hour......
With lots of requests inbetween!
The evening was fabulous too - Texas Tornados got us all back in the mood to dance and blasted the winter blues out of the door!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Saturday we have UK Country band of the year 2008 LITTLE ROCK! Please do check Andys website for more details about the Viking on www.vikingcwdc.co.uk
Take care everyone, and see you all soon!
Julie x
Firstly, I need to apologise to all my Monday dancers for not being able to run the class for you this week - I had a problem with my eye and needed to see an optician, everything is fine, but the advice was not to drive that day....but the class still went ahead without me, with the lovely Jacqui stepping in for me for the evening! Thank you very much Jacqui - I'm sure everyone had a lovely evening!
Moving on to happier things now....
Next week as you know is COMIC RELIEF day....which takes place on Friday 13th March.....
Well, I thought we could have a little bit of fun ourselves for Comic Relief.......(I can hear you all cheering now!!)
On Wednesday Evening (11th March) and also on Monday (16th March) I would like you to all wear something red, bring your red noses too if you have them! (they are available in Oxfam shops and Sainsburys for £1 each).....I will be baking cakes again! (oh no I hear you cry! Oh yes I shout back!! haha) But I have expert help in my cake making this time, so the cakes should actually be edible this time!
We will also have something lovely to raffle - possibly a cuddly Red Bear!
And....heres the most interesting bit.....we are going to dance the A-Z of dances......between the hours of 7.30 and 9 p.m.........
If you come to the 6.30 class - this will run as normal - with cakes for sale and a nice raffle.....so please bring some extra pennies along! If you would like to stay for the rest of the evening then you will have to pay an extra £1 - which I will donate to the charity!
If you dance from 7.30 - 8.30 we will be operating a split floor system for the whole session - should be lots of fun! Taking us from A to Z! which we hope to reach by 9 p.m.! We will stop at 8.30 for the second raffle as usual! Again if you usually only stay for an hour, but want to stay on to get to Z then please just pay an extra pound which will be donated to the charity....
From 9 p.m. to 9.45 I will be reviewing current intermediate teaches (thats if you have any energy left....)
For our Friday Class - please do bring your red noses along as it will actually be Red Nose Day - and we will have cakes and a special raffle, so please bring your pennies(pounds?) along and join in the fun!
Cameras at the ready! click click!
Other news........
Well week one back at the Viking was great fun! Thank you to everyone who came along to the afternoon class - I was astounded at the number! Brilliant! I taught six dances that day....(yep - six!) something for everyone......
We started off with:
Long Shot, and Rodeo Blues for the beginners hour
Dreamboat, and No more cloudy days for the improvers hour
and
Make my day, and Respect yourself for the intermediates hour......
With lots of requests inbetween!
The evening was fabulous too - Texas Tornados got us all back in the mood to dance and blasted the winter blues out of the door!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Saturday we have UK Country band of the year 2008 LITTLE ROCK! Please do check Andys website for more details about the Viking on www.vikingcwdc.co.uk
Take care everyone, and see you all soon!
Julie x
Thursday, 26 February 2009
The Viking is Back!
Dear Dancers,
Well, this Saturday - 28th February 2009 - sees the reopening of the Viking club in Selsey!
Lessons start at 1 p.m for beginners and 2 p.m for improvers and intermediates and beyond!
Andy and I are both very much looking forward to another season at the club and are looking forward very much to seeing friendly faces old and new - or should I say - past and present? (stop digging the hole Julie and move on.....)
If you can't make the afternoons FREE lesson - you can still come along to the evenings live entertainment instead! It costs only £5.50 to get in and you then have from 6.30 til 1 a.m. to party the night away! This weeks opening act are the TEXAS TORNADOS! they are a fabulous group who are bang up to date with the current line dance scene and play a mix of country and pop, old and new....we luv em!
Look forward to seeing you there - if you need directions etc then please click here to go to Andys Viking website www.vikingcwdc.co.uk
Other news....
Well fast approaching is COMIC RELIEF day.....and we have been trying to think of ways of raising money for this worthy cause...and have come up with this!!
On Monday and Wednesday of COMIC RELIEF week (which ends Friday 13th March) we will be asking our dancers to wear something red to class, and bring along their red noses (available in Sainsburys...) and £1 for the charity.....we will do the rest...
We aim to have a non stop party for the whole class - playing one track after another - back to back in a seamless fashion!! (Ok!! so thats the AIM ok? haha)
We are going to ask you to form yourself into little teams of 4 or more and then all you have to do is to make sure at least one member of your team is on the floor for each dance played....it may be a nice idea to mix the beginners in with the intermediates so that you can take turns?
This will be an informal event - should be great fun - and will raise lots of money for a good cause!
And you never know - I may well get my baking tins out again and tackle some more fairy cakes!!!
Who said OH NO!!!
Oh yes!! I promise this time I will make them edible! haha
And finally (yes, its nearly over!)
The dances I have been teaching this week are:
Coastin, Catfish, Simply Mambo, Dreamboat, Cabo San Lucas, No more Cloudy Days, Heavenly (aka The Daffodil Dance) and recaps of Human Dancer, Madiba Mambo and Turn me Loose!
Phew!
take care folks and see you all soon
Julie x
Well, this Saturday - 28th February 2009 - sees the reopening of the Viking club in Selsey!
Lessons start at 1 p.m for beginners and 2 p.m for improvers and intermediates and beyond!
Andy and I are both very much looking forward to another season at the club and are looking forward very much to seeing friendly faces old and new - or should I say - past and present? (stop digging the hole Julie and move on.....)
If you can't make the afternoons FREE lesson - you can still come along to the evenings live entertainment instead! It costs only £5.50 to get in and you then have from 6.30 til 1 a.m. to party the night away! This weeks opening act are the TEXAS TORNADOS! they are a fabulous group who are bang up to date with the current line dance scene and play a mix of country and pop, old and new....we luv em!
Look forward to seeing you there - if you need directions etc then please click here to go to Andys Viking website www.vikingcwdc.co.uk
Other news....
Well fast approaching is COMIC RELIEF day.....and we have been trying to think of ways of raising money for this worthy cause...and have come up with this!!
On Monday and Wednesday of COMIC RELIEF week (which ends Friday 13th March) we will be asking our dancers to wear something red to class, and bring along their red noses (available in Sainsburys...) and £1 for the charity.....we will do the rest...
We aim to have a non stop party for the whole class - playing one track after another - back to back in a seamless fashion!! (Ok!! so thats the AIM ok? haha)
We are going to ask you to form yourself into little teams of 4 or more and then all you have to do is to make sure at least one member of your team is on the floor for each dance played....it may be a nice idea to mix the beginners in with the intermediates so that you can take turns?
This will be an informal event - should be great fun - and will raise lots of money for a good cause!
And you never know - I may well get my baking tins out again and tackle some more fairy cakes!!!
Who said OH NO!!!
Oh yes!! I promise this time I will make them edible! haha
And finally (yes, its nearly over!)
The dances I have been teaching this week are:
Coastin, Catfish, Simply Mambo, Dreamboat, Cabo San Lucas, No more Cloudy Days, Heavenly (aka The Daffodil Dance) and recaps of Human Dancer, Madiba Mambo and Turn me Loose!
Phew!
take care folks and see you all soon
Julie x
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Dances taught this week......
Dear Dancers,
Here is a list of dances taught in the Katz class this week (so far....)
MONDAY
ab's: Catfish - to Baby dont go - Dwight Yokam and Cheryl Crow
Precious Time, 456 Waltz, and many others!
7.30 class - New Dance - Dreamboat - Robbie McGowan Hickie - to I see a boat on the river by Boney M
Reviews of: Cabo San Lucas - Wanna be Elvis
8.30 onwards.....
Human-Dancer - big hit!
Turn me loose
Beyond the sea - an oldie from 2002 - to Will Youngs version of the song...
WEDNESDAY
ab's: Feeling Kinda Lonely - to Nothin about love makes sense - Liane Rimes
Simply Mambo - Tequila!
Coastin' - to Dance above the rainbow
7.30 class
Dreamboat
Wanna be Elvis
Recap: Little Red Book (the faster version of the song was used this week)
8.30 onwards...
New dance this week: HEAVENLY - aka The daffodil Dance by Chrissie Hodgson to Heaven is for everyone by Mark Medlock
Here is a list of fave dances across all classes - all days.....all levels...
JUST FOR GRINS
HEARTBREAK EXPRESS
COUNTY LINE
STROLLALONG
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
ITS UP TO YOU
RIBBON OF HIGHWAY
GREYSTONE
JUST A MEMORY
MADIBA MAMBO
TURN ME LOOSE
HUMAN DANCER
CABO SAN LUCAS
FUZZY DUCK SLIDE - AB
COWBOY CHARLESTON
PEACHES AND CREAM
LITTLE RED BOOK
WANNA BE ELVIS
BIG GIRL BOOGIE
COME DANCE WITH ME
MAGIC MOON
POT OF GOLD
LEMON TREE
DUCK SOUP
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
CLOSER
BOSA NOVA
KILL THE SPIDERS
ELECTRIC DREAMS
TWIDDLY DIDDLY DEE!
WHEN I CRY
DANCE LIKE YOURE THE ONLY ONE
CRAZY FOOT MAMBO
FULL HOUSE
AM I?
RIGHT OR WRONG
GALWAY GIRLS
WALK THE LINE
WISHFUL THINKING
HEART OF AN ANGEL - used 'I loved her first' but it made the class cry! oh dear! haha
LIKE A DREAM
FIRECRACKER
and so the list goes on.....!
FRIDAY
Friday is our brand new class - so far they have learned the following dances:
1.30 class...
ABL - warm up routine
FUZZY DUCK SLIDE - shaggin on the boulevard - Blame it on the boogie - Zjozzys funk
ELECTRIC SLIDE - I feel lucky - you need a man around here - sex bomb!
COWBOY CHARLESTON - Candyman - The boy does nothing - Mambo No 5
LINDI SHUFFLE - Dont it make my brown eyes blue
COWBOY MIX UP - Make her fall in love with me song - Blue Rose Is
2.30 class...
STROLLALONG CHA CHA - something stupid
DREAMBOAT
WANNA BE ELVIS
RIBBON OF HIGHWAY
So as you can see - all the classes are doing fantastically well - and each class is more like a party, fun, relaxed and pure escapism.....no pressure - no stress - in fact, just how linedancing was meant to be...
Many thanks everyone for coming dancing this week - see you all again soon!
Take care
Julie x
Here is a list of dances taught in the Katz class this week (so far....)
MONDAY
ab's: Catfish - to Baby dont go - Dwight Yokam and Cheryl Crow
Precious Time, 456 Waltz, and many others!
7.30 class - New Dance - Dreamboat - Robbie McGowan Hickie - to I see a boat on the river by Boney M
Reviews of: Cabo San Lucas - Wanna be Elvis
8.30 onwards.....
Human-Dancer - big hit!
Turn me loose
Beyond the sea - an oldie from 2002 - to Will Youngs version of the song...
WEDNESDAY
ab's: Feeling Kinda Lonely - to Nothin about love makes sense - Liane Rimes
Simply Mambo - Tequila!
Coastin' - to Dance above the rainbow
7.30 class
Dreamboat
Wanna be Elvis
Recap: Little Red Book (the faster version of the song was used this week)
8.30 onwards...
New dance this week: HEAVENLY - aka The daffodil Dance by Chrissie Hodgson to Heaven is for everyone by Mark Medlock
Here is a list of fave dances across all classes - all days.....all levels...
JUST FOR GRINS
HEARTBREAK EXPRESS
COUNTY LINE
STROLLALONG
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
ITS UP TO YOU
RIBBON OF HIGHWAY
GREYSTONE
JUST A MEMORY
MADIBA MAMBO
TURN ME LOOSE
HUMAN DANCER
CABO SAN LUCAS
FUZZY DUCK SLIDE - AB
COWBOY CHARLESTON
PEACHES AND CREAM
LITTLE RED BOOK
WANNA BE ELVIS
BIG GIRL BOOGIE
COME DANCE WITH ME
MAGIC MOON
POT OF GOLD
LEMON TREE
DUCK SOUP
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
CLOSER
BOSA NOVA
KILL THE SPIDERS
ELECTRIC DREAMS
TWIDDLY DIDDLY DEE!
WHEN I CRY
DANCE LIKE YOURE THE ONLY ONE
CRAZY FOOT MAMBO
FULL HOUSE
AM I?
RIGHT OR WRONG
GALWAY GIRLS
WALK THE LINE
WISHFUL THINKING
HEART OF AN ANGEL - used 'I loved her first' but it made the class cry! oh dear! haha
LIKE A DREAM
FIRECRACKER
and so the list goes on.....!
FRIDAY
Friday is our brand new class - so far they have learned the following dances:
1.30 class...
ABL - warm up routine
FUZZY DUCK SLIDE - shaggin on the boulevard - Blame it on the boogie - Zjozzys funk
ELECTRIC SLIDE - I feel lucky - you need a man around here - sex bomb!
COWBOY CHARLESTON - Candyman - The boy does nothing - Mambo No 5
LINDI SHUFFLE - Dont it make my brown eyes blue
COWBOY MIX UP - Make her fall in love with me song - Blue Rose Is
2.30 class...
STROLLALONG CHA CHA - something stupid
DREAMBOAT
WANNA BE ELVIS
RIBBON OF HIGHWAY
So as you can see - all the classes are doing fantastically well - and each class is more like a party, fun, relaxed and pure escapism.....no pressure - no stress - in fact, just how linedancing was meant to be...
Many thanks everyone for coming dancing this week - see you all again soon!
Take care
Julie x
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
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