Seattle Rueda

Hello there everyone,

Wow!!  What a weekend of Cuban music we will have starting this Friday. There are 3, count them 3, Cuban music events going on tomorrow night alone.  Greeeeeeeeeeeat!  Well, if any of you are not too tired to dance more on Saturday, I would love to have you come by my Rueda & Samba bootcamp at the Phinney Ridge Community Center. It starts at midday.

These workshops are designed for beginners so tell your friends so that we can build the local rueda community. I am particularly looking for more leads. So if you know of anyone who has been talking about learning rueda, please send them my way.

Thanks to all.

Take care and keep dancing.

Dennis

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Musica Cubana invades Navya

For those of you who want to keep on dancing Friday night the 20th I’ll be sitting in with Nic at the DJ table in the BIG ROOM…

DJ Baracoa

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DOCUMENTARY
Celia the Queen (West Coast Premiere) April 26th at 4PM at Langston Hughes Performing Arts. The story of the legendary Afro-Cuban Diva Celia Cruz. Celia the Queen is a feature length documentary about the life and legacy of a woman whose voice symbolized the soul of a nation. Filmmaker Joe Cardona will be in attendance. Presented by LHAAFF (Langston Hughes African American Film Festival) http://www.langstonblackfilmfest.org/ proudly partnering with CineSeattle, the Seattle International Latino Film Festival. A closing night gala reception for Director Joe Cardona follows the film.

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Hi everyone,

Please try to join us for this special evening in the elegant D.A.R. mansion on Capitol Hill, this Friday March 20.  It’s a great venue to relax and listen to some gorgeous “Cuban chamber music” performed by Charanga Danzón in the living room, followed by energetic dancing in the upstairs ballroom with Grupo Ashe. Lance Lu is our special guest for the concert, playing examples of shekere and guiro son, and we’ll be performing everything from solo guitar to danzón to jazz. Bring your family and friends — all ages are welcome. (Parent map magazine just listed our concert as an event pick for the month!) You’ll want to get advance tickets, as door prices go up.

Friday, March 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

Rainier Chapter of the D.A.R.

800 Roy Street (Capitol Hill)

Seattle, WA 98102

Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56091

www.charangadanzon.com

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Hi All, Come on in for a snack or drink and stay for some dancing and fun.

I’ll be DJ’ing from 7-10PM

DJ Barcoa

PEQUENA HAVANA RESTAURANT

Where the Sea Monster Lounge in Wallingford was once occupied
2202 N 45th St
Seattle, WA 98103

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Hey Rueda/Casino Family,

I just quickly wanted to share with everyone some kind words I received regarding the past weekend:

“Yes indeed, thanks again for welcoming us in to the Seattle Rueda community. You guys have a really great group of people dancing some great salsa.”                                       -Casinero from Vancouver

Thank You Ryan and Sidney, once again, for infusing excitement in our community!…and teaching us new flavor and moves for our dancing lives.  See you again soon.

It was great to see new faces out there along with the die-hards!

a h i  n a m a !    Sam

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¡Hola!

As we know, Instructors Sidney and Ryan are in town from San Francisco teaching the dance workshop this weekend. And they will also be in town this coming week. Sidney is willing to teach her workout class on Monday night (in the same location as where Instructor Dennis Richards normally teaches his rueda classes.) The class isn’t only a full workout, but aids in learning all types of Cuban dance movements. We loved it today in class so much, come join the encore on Monday night!

Georgia, lagriegaseattle@yahoo.com

Monday, March 16

7:30-9:00pm

$18 for the 1.5 hrs

Phinney Neighborhood Association

6532 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle 98103

upper building

http://www.phinneycenter.org/

Sidney’s Salsa Workout – In this highly energetic, full body workout, we explore the roots and relatives of salsa. Through isolations we gain strength, flexibility and articulate expression throughout the entire body beginning with the core. We warm up with the basic salsa footwork and move on to explore more complex rhythmic variations, stylistic embellishments and related dance styles building towards completing the class with a dynamic and fun choreography.

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Hi all — just an update on our party on Saturday.  I’ve got the dance floor cleared and am about to go grocery shopping to feed us.  I’ll be making 7 layer dip, with chips and other finger foods.  I’m hoping that you all would bring the drinks:  any flavor or alcohol level will do.  I have a blender, if that helps inspire.  Any food dishes would be welcome, too.

Also, if you have any musical instruments, especially drums, please bring them! If you bring music, please make it in electronic format, not CDs, cause I can’t play ‘em.  I’ll ask Ryan to be our DJ, if he wants to.

Those who need to are welcome to stay over.  Just know that while I have a ton of room (3 empty bedrooms I’m trying to rent out right now), I have few beds, so you might want to bring a pillow and blanket!

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My Dear Rueda Family,

Just got the news that Sidney & Ryan will be arriving on Saturday, however, we can still meet up for a nice dinner at Ras Dashen on Friday and just enjoy each other’s company. The food is great and inexpensive and it’s Friday and I want to celebrate my official completion and granting of my tenure faculty status from work….so if anyone is still up for going..I am taking the bus to the restaurant. Join me or there’s more “gomen” for me!!! Another thing to update you all, which I take full responsibility for, is that I made an error on the schedule about the workshops going from 1-4pm. It actually goes from 1-5pm. A slight error but an innocent one. Lastly, The name of the new Cuban Restaurant is Pequeña Havana. Based on the blog that Georgia mentioned on the comments of my previous blog entry, sounds like an awesome place to eat. I am already on it to make sure it’s open on Sunday after practice. More later.

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