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Re: Palm Springs New Year's - Suggestions Please!
[Please note cross-post.]
kaimbu@earthlink.net wrote:
> We are a family of 8 - ranging from 14 to 79 . . .
> we have 2 14 year olds that would love to be somewhere
> (safe) but happening . . . Does anyone have any ideas?
There are two major dance conventions starting Thursday and
continuing through Monday.
One is Swing and Salsa, the other Salsa and Swing. Many children,
from babies through adolescents and teen-agers will be at each. There
will also be many people in their sixties, and some in their
seventies and eighties. I know. I dance with them elsewhere.
Most of the dancers will be in their thirties and forties, the Salsa
crowd being a bit younger than the Swing crowd.
Both events will probably present music for other dances,
particularly Country TwoStep, NightClub TwoStep, Tango, and Waltz.
Even if you don't dance, watching is great fun. When you are asked to
dance, accept! Say "I don't know how to dance but I'd like to dance
with you if you don't mind." If you say "Teach me" you'll be thought
an ignoramus as people who know how to dance go to dances to dance
because they learned how to dance before going to dance at a dance.
Between the two conventions, there are likely to be more than two
thousand dancers in town, among them the best in the country. Were I
going, (I'd be in Las Vegas today ready to cross the mountains
Thursday, if I were but amn't because of a respiratory ailment} I'd
choose the Swing and Salsa event because this is the fourteenth year
the promoter has had his event at this time. The Salsa and Swing
event is an upstart who has generated much ill-will in the dance
community because of what he's doing this week. Generally speaking,
the Salsa crowd drinks more alcohol than the Swing crowd.
You can't arrive "too late". Few dancers quit before Midnight. I
usually do 'tween three and four. Many dance 'til dawn. This is true
at all major Swing and/or Salsa dance conventions, not just around
New Year's Eve.
New Year's Swingin' Dance Camp XIV (Cathedral City=Palm Springs)
<http://calendar.yahoo.com/YYY,2b628...p;wt=1104192000>
New Years Swing & Salsa Masquerade Ball!! (Indian Wells=Palm Springs)
<http://calendar.yahoo.com/YYY,2b628...p;wt=1104192000>
If those links don't work for you (just checked 'em, they work for
me), go to the site at Left in the sig where the links do work.
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