Category Archives: Workshop
Workshop with Roy “Astro Boy” Hadisubroto (Mar 4-5, 2016)
Teaches
Tightrope by Roy Hadisubroto & Daniel Trepat
Short Small Sally (aka Long Tall Sally) by Roy Hadisubroto and Raymond Sarlemijn
Jakarta Bachata by Roy Hadisubroto, Fiona Murray, Jun Andrizal, Mitha Primasari
I’m Coming Over by Roy Hadisubroto & Fiona Murray
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Roy Hadisubroto & Fiona Murray
Love Never Felt So Good by Roy Hadisubroto & Fiona Murray
Playlist | |
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A Little Sweet (Albro) Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Mundy, Szymanki & Glass) And Get It On (Trepat & Vane) Black & Blue (Ward) Blow Me A Kiss (Shatto) Cadillac Ride (Mundy) Cake by the Ocean (Blevins) Can You This (Warren) Charlie’s Cha (Stone) City of Angels (Shatto) Cliché Love Song (Mundy, Szymanki, Robinson) Come Dance With Me (Szymanski) Dear Future Husband (Wetzel) Dock of the Bay (White) Elektrisk (Sarlemijn, Bailey, Hadisubroto, Haugen) Ex’s & Oh’s (Dominguez & Liberman) Extreme Love (Poulsen) Fall for You (Rushton) Feel The Light (Hadisubroto & Murray) Fly Like A Bird (McAdams) Follow Me (Bailey, Sarlemijn & Whitehouse) Forever (Murray, Hadisubroto & Sarlemijn) French Nights (Shatto) Get Your Shoes On (Blevins & Szymanski) Girl Crush (Johnstone & McEnaney-White) Girl Crushin’ (Dominguez) Have Fun Go Mad (Blevins) Homegrown (McEnaney) I Need to Know (Christian-Sohn) Imelda’s Way (Churm) Larger Than Life (Ward) Let It Be Me (Glass & Bailey) Listen (Mundy) Love Me Down (Whitehouse) Love Yourself (Warren) Make It Shake (Whitehouse & Bailey) Making History (Bennett, Musk & Ward) Move A Like (Vos) Moves Like Jagger (Potter) Music High (Hinton) My Father’s Son (Verdonk, Hadisubroto) |
Never Been to Spain (Szymanski) New Thang (Sobrielo, Lee, Sarlemijn) No Diggity (McAdam) Off The Chain (Whitehouse) One Wing (Whitehouse) Painting Pillows (McEnaney-White) Party Night (Murray & Hadisubroto) People Help the People (Hadisubroto +4) Perfectly Confused (Ingram) Plastic Pretty (Vos) Pontoon (Smith) Running (Craig) Save the Day (Winson) Sensacion (Bailey, Hadisubroto, Sarlemijn) Shut Up and Dance (Peter & Allison) Shy (Kinser & Shatto) Something In The Water (Poulsen) Soul Food (Evans) Spiderweb (Stith) Stitches (Glass) Stories (Barnes) Strip it Down (McEnaney-White) Sugar Honey I.T. (Barnes) Sugar Rush (Thornton) Summer Wind (Szymanski) Summertime Strolling (Brown) Tangled Up (Dominguez) The Beast (Fowler) Tonight (Hadisubroto & Sarlemijn) Trespassing (Whitehouse & Bailey) Uptown Funk (Fowler) Uptown Slide (Dominguez) Wakey Wakey (Blevins & Szymanski) Want To Want Me (Murray, Hadisubroto & Sarlemijn) We Are Tonight (Albro) What’s Cooking (Rushton) Whip It (McKeever & McEnaney-White) Whispering (Warren) Witness (Whitehouse & Bailey) Won’t Tell a Soul (McEnaney-White, Jakobsen) WTF (What The France) (Whitehouse, Bailey & Warren) You’re Not the Boss of Me (Poulsen & Ward) |

Workshop With Niels Poulsen – 2014 Jul 26
Teaches
Such A Fool – Beginner
High Cotton – Improver
Stay Stay Stay – Improver
Bruno’s Way – Beginner
Talkin’ Bout Walkin’ Out by Larry Bass – Beginner
She’s On Fire – Int/Adv
I Will Try – Intermediate
I Can Make Ya by Guyton Mundy
Still Got the Blues – Intermediate
NOTE: Stepsheets for the new dances are not yet published as of this writing.
Playlist (Workshop)
1-2-3-4 AK Freak Alcazar All I Can Say All Of Me Amame Blue Sky Bruno’s Way Burning Cadillac Ride Caught In The Act Cha Cha Burn Clap Happy Cleveland Boyz Coming Unplugged Counting Stars Desert Walk Don’t Drop Your Cha Don’t Stop The Party Doo Wacka Doo Evergreen Faultline Flower For The First Time Girl Power Hallelujah Heavy On My Heart Hello Dolly High Cotton |
Homeward Bound I Belong To You I Can Make Ya I Don’t Believe You I Gotta Feeling I Held Your Hand I Hope You Find It! I Will Try I’m In Love With You I’m Mad Inside Your Heaven Ivory Towers Jesse James Jitterbug Just One Reason Lady Luck Leave Me Love 2 Dance Love Trouble Loving You Marz and Mummies Mmm Yeah Mojo Mambo My Hero! My Next Love New York 2 LA Next To Me |
No Goodbyes Not So Ordinary Off The Chain Only A Woman Only Girl p-51 Pontoon Rainmaker Red Lights Ring My Bells Say Something Sea of Heartbreak She’s On Fire Shotgun Jenny Sippin’ On Southern Something In the Water Stay Stay Stay Still Got The Blues Such A Fool Suicide Waltz Summer Paradise Talkin’ Bout, Walkin’ Out Thankful To Eternity Touchy Trespassing Wanna Be Contigo Won’t You Stay |
Playlist (Friday Evening Dance)
50 Ways All I Can Say Always Alone Blue Sky Down To The River Flower Hit The Floor I Gotta Feeling |
I Hope You Find It I’m Mad It’s Going Down Just One Reason Lady Luck New York 2 LA Off The Chain P-51 |
Red Lights Ring My Bells Say Something Shakin’ My Head Showstopper Suicide Waltz Timber |

A Day with Scott Blevins – 2014 May 3
Playlist (Workshop and evening dance)
All Of Me 5-10-15 Swing Always Alone Beautiful In My Eyes Break Free Cha Can U This Cha Cha Burn Cha Cha Tonight Circle of Love Train Clap Happy Coming Unplugged Coochie Bang Bang Counting Stars Doing It Justice Don’t Wait Dream Lover Echo Fault Line Feed The Fetih Feel Flower Follow Me Freak A Little More Girl Power Have Fun, Go Mad Hey Go! Hit The Floor Hold On Tight Hurt Me Carefully I Held Your Hand I Hope You Find It |
I Scream I’m In Love With You I’m Mad It’s Going Down Ivory Towers Just One Reason Kickin’ Back 2013 Kreedom Love Me Right Man In The Mirror Meltdown MMM Dada!!! Mmm Yeah Murder My Heart My A D D My Light Naughty, Baby Never Say Never Never Should Have New York 2 LA Nitty Gritty No Goodbyes No Man’s Land No Regrets No Salvation Not So Ordinary NY Cha Only A Woman Outlaws of Love Overnight Post Code Envy |
Private Dancer Rainmaker Red Lights Right To Be Wrong Round & Round Say Something Scandalous Shakin’ My Head Shiver Showstopper Sippin’ On Southern Skinny Love Stuck Sultry Take Your Time The Beast The Good Life The Thunderer Thing Change Things Change Timber To Eternity Treat Me Right Triple X Trouble Is Trouble With My Baby Twinkle Vegas Girl Waking Up Walk Alone Weep |

A Day with Scott Blevins – 2013 Sep 28
Teaches
Kickin’ Back 2013
Nitty Gritty
Showstopper
Swing Time Boogie
Playlist (Workshop and Evening Dance)
5-10-15 Swing Addited Angel Begin Again Better Believe Blue Sky Blurred Lines Boom Sh-Boom Booty Chuk Boys Will Be Boys Break Free Cha Brucie Bruises Burning Cadillac Ride Cha Cha Tonight Clap Happy Come Wake Me Up Coochie Bang Bang Cowgirls & Switches Don’t Stay Don’t You Remember Faith & Desire Faking It Feed the Fetish Feel Feel Flower Follow Me Freak A Little More Free Falli’ Gleefully There Half Past Nothin’ Have Fun, Go Mad Hell If I Hold On Tight Humanised Hurt Me Carefully Hurts Instead I Don’t Believe You I Scream! If I Had Wings It’s Murda Jenkins Sisters’ Jam |
Kickin’ Back 2013 Krazy Long Distance Love Loppis Loving You Madness Miami Mirrors Never Say Never Nitty Gritty No Life After You No Regrets Outta Control Overnight People Like Us Private Dancer Pucker Up Remember That Rhythm of the Night Right To Be Wrong Showstopper Sippin’ on Southern Skinny Love So Said Joe Spoiled Street Soul Superstar Swing Time Boogie The Good Life Through The Fire To Love Somebody Together Forever Tonight Too Deep Treat Me Right Trendin Trespassing Trouble Is Waking Up We’re Not Broken When A Man Loves A Woman When I Was Your Main Wherever I Go Wow Tokyo |
Workshop with Niels Poulsen – 2013 Feb 15-16
TEACHES
Friday Workshop | Saturday Workshop |
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Bruises California Cha Lookabell Maverockin’ by Gaye Teather |
Better Believe by Scott Blevins Brand New Me by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris Cubano Drunk On Love With These Eyes by Darren Bailey & Niels Poulsen |
PLAYLISTS
Friday Workshop | Saturday Workshop |
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1-2-3-4 Baby Kate Back It Up Bruises Caballero California Cha Come Dance With Me Dizzy Don’t Stop The Party Flower Hello Dolly Imelda’s Way Knee Deep Lady Luck Lookabell Maverockin’ Medina Pontoon Simplemente Something In The Water Stay Stay Stay Stuck Summer Paradise |
50 Ways Alabama Slammin’ American Cowboy Beautiful In My Eyes Better Believe Bittersweet Memory Boys Will Be Boys Cubano Drive By Drunk On Love Eres Tu Gleefully There Half Past Nothin’ Have You Ever Seen The Rain His Only Need Hurt Me Carefully It’s Up To You Jesse James Melon Heart My Hero! My Next Love Next To Me Now You See It, Now You Don’t On the Edge Outta Control Promise Skiffle Time Stuck To Eternity Under The Sun Unmistakable Windy City Waltz With These Eyes |
Friday Evening Dance | Saturday Evening Dance |
1929 50 Ways Back It Up Bang Bang Beautiful In My Eyes Blue Sky Cadillac Ride Call me Maybe Can’t Stop Loving You Crazy Foot Mambo Don’t Drop Your Cha Don’t Stop The Party Flower For The First Time Gleefully There Hallelujah Have You Ever Seen The Rain Hey Soul Sister How You Gonna Humanised I Gotta Feeling I Like It, I Like It I Wanna (Dance) In The Air Tonight Judy Likes To Rock! Love 2 Dance Marz and Mummies My Next Love Next To Me On The Edge On The Water Only Girl Outta Control Rolling In The Deep Run This Somewhere With You Through The Fire Time Bomn To Eternity Together We Dance Trendin’ Twinkle What Are Words Windy City Waltz |
1929 1-2-3-4 Back It Up Big Moments Bittersweet Memory Blue Night Cha Blue Sky Brand New Me Caballero Cadillac Ride Clap Your Hands Disclosure Don’t Drop Your Cha Don’t Stop The Party Drunk In The Morning Eres Tu Farewell Flower For The First Time Gleefully There Gotta Be Somebody Half Past Nothin’ Heavy On My Heart His Only Need I Belong To You I Gotta Feeling I Held Your Hand I Wanna (Dance) Intrigue Islands In The Stream Jazzy Girl Judy Likes To Rock! Love 2 Dance Love Trouble Loving You Medina Melon Heart Next To Me Night Nurse Only Girl Pii Pii Pontoon Rolling In The Deep Run This Simplemente Skinny Love Soul Fire Stay Stay Stay Still Got The Blues Straight to Memphis To Terenity Wade In The Water With These Eyes Without Fire |

Workshop with Ira Weisburd – 2012 Oct 20
It was a beautiful day and we had an awesome time at our Wine Country Line Dances Workshop with Ira Weisburd. Dancers from all over the Bay Area, as far north as Mt. Shasta area, as far south as Morgan Hill area and, beyond California, as far east as New York, attended this fun afternoon. We had about 100 people attending, so there were a lot of people to meet and new friends to be made.
People of all ages enjoyed learning Ira’s dances both the old and the new ones. We had the most fun dancing the Chi Balla mixer dance. Luckily there was plenty of room to dance and plenty of refreshments and water to keep our energy up.
Dancers appreciated Ira’s calm, soothing voice and his easy teaching style to match. In addition Ira’s wife Diane was also on the dance floor so we could watch and follow her as we turned to the back or side walls. And throughout the afternoon we even had time to take photos with Ira.
Many, many thanks to all who helped make this event successful from our sponsors to people bringing food and lending a hand. Many thanks, too, to the instructors who helped promote the workshop and brought their students with them with a special mention to Evelyn Khinoo, our Bay Area instructor and choreographer who, along with Denny, has done so much to promote line dancing and line dance events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Thank you Ira for doing a workshop with us and thank you dancers for making this such a fun event.
Brenda, Dolly and Greta
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Teaches:
Beautiful
Cha Cha Suavito
Chi Balla Mixer (Dancer’s Mixer)
Sambalero (a.k.a. Dancing Heart)
When I Dance
Whipped Cream
Dance Playlist:
1929 Be Home Soon Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful In My Eyes Blue Night Cha Boys Will Be Boys Caballero Cadillac Ride Cha Cha Suavito Chi Balla Mixer Dizzy Dream On Texas Ladies Eres Tu Evergreen Half Past Nothin’ Have You Ever Seen The Rain His Only Need Linda Eh |
Martini Time Mojo Mambo No Diggity On The Edge Open Book Rolling In The Deep S.B.S. (Shuffle Boogie Soul) Sambalero Seduced Seduced Shakatak Silk & Satin Simplemente Something In The Water Viva La Rumba Watch It Burn When I Dance Whipped Cream Without Fire |
A Report from Judy R. (an excerpt from WLDN)
Thank you Judy for submitting this entry to the World Line Dance Newsletter!
SUBJECT: IRA WEISBURD WORKSHOP, PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, OCT. 20, 2012
From: Judy
Curiosity and fidelity – two traits that can make things happen. One can kill the cat the other could save it. The one enduring image of IRA WEISBURD for me was his wedding video which he posted in this newsletter, the one where the rabbi asked Diane if she would take Ira for her husband and before she could answer asked her if she’d like to exercise her lifeline and poll the audience. That scene sent me reeling off my chair with laughter. I thought that a guy who could make fun of himself at such a solemn moment and probably the most important event in his life must be way up there in the stratosphere of “cool”. I was curious to see this cool guy in person and decided to go to his workshop. Also it was being put up by DOLLY URQUHART, GRETA SUMAGANDAY and BRENDA SHATTO of the Wine Country Linedance and these ladies are way up there in my regards. Fidelity dictates that I attend the workshop. So on a perfectly gorgeous Saturday afternoon when the sun was at its shiniest, I drove once again over the Golden Gate Bridge to Petaluma while the seductive scenery beaconed me to get out of my car and commune with nature while in my ear I could hear my friend asking “you’re going to Ira’s workshop? That’s for beginners, there’ll be mostly beginners there and the teach would be very slooooooowww.” I like all dances, beginners or whatever and we do beginner dances at least every 3rd dance at our clubs. But as I was driving, I started questioning myself “do I really want to spend 4 hours of this beautiful day dancing beginner dances?” I was mulling that question when I realized I have reached my destination. I stepped into the ballroom and WHOA! the room was full and prancing in a big circle dance called CHI BALLA MIXER, 32 ct. beg couple mixer done to polka music Chi Balla by Orchestra Mario Riccardi of Italy. Millie Dusha was there doing her woohoos and there were a lot of intermediate dancers which translates to intermediate dances during open dancing in between teaches. The prospect for the afternoon had made a 180 degree turn.
On the stage was the cool guy all in black against the black curtains of the stage. They had to put a big white panel behind him so he can be seen. Ira taught SAMBALERO, 32 ct. beg/improv to samba music Mueve by Orchestra Bagutti; WHEN I DANCE, 64 ct. high beg/improv foxtrot linedance to Seduction by Frank Sinatra; BEAUTIFUL, 32 ct. high beg/improv rhumba to La Belleza by Marta Sanchez; CHA CHA SUAVITO, 32 ct beg/inter to Baile De Suavito by M. Gomez; and WHIPPED CREAM, 44 ct. 1 wall beginner to Whipped Cream by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. Yes, all beginners but very well choreographed done to very danceable music and simpatico and guapito IRA teaches in such an even, affable, suave style, things just flowed pleasantly by. He chose his dances well, for the very beginners, I imagine, it was challenging but not daunting and for the more advanced, it was soothing and relaxing where they could just let their body do the dancing and enjoy the music. DIANE, who became his wife by virtue of a decisive vote by their wedding guests, was his able assistant and back wall. For the open dancing in between, we got to do a mix of intermediate and beginner dances (yay!), to name a few: Beautiful In My Eyes, Boys Will Be Boys, Half Past Nothing, Caballero, Seduced, Night Nurse, Something in The Water, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Silk and Satin and Dream On Texas Ladies both by Evelyn Khinoo who was there. The afternoon went quickly by. It wasn’t the outdoors but the indoors was just as pleasurable. The hall was festive with decorations and balloons, perfect temperature, bountiful food and drinks, great raffles prizes, the most gracious and friendliest of hostesses and wonderful dancers. As for the cat, curiosity didn’t kill it, it gained one more life to the 9 it already got and fidelity for the ladies went up another notch. Let’s drink, I mean, dance to that.
Judy Romanenkov
judybmr@sbcglobal.net
www.jbmrpaintings.com
Workshop with Will & Bryan – 2012 Apr 7
The fun kicked off Friday night, April 6th, 2012, at Kodiak Jack’s restaurant & bar in Petaluma, California, for a Meet & Greet with Will Craig & Bryan McWherter, our guest choreographers from North Carolina. Twenty plus dancers took over the dance floor as DJ Greta played all their requests. The next day, dancers converged on the grand dance room at the Petaluma Veteran’s Memorial Hall for the all day workshop and social to learn the choreography of our esteemed guests.
In addition to the line dances taught (listed below) both Will and Bryan shared some techniques to make the way we dance feel better and look better. Will gave us pointers for waltzes, cha-chas, and hip-hop slides. Bryan had us practicing our spirals and working on foot placement to maintain proper balance. Both lessons were excellent! They continued to wow us with their own choreography all afternoon. Bryan introduced his newest beginner dances choreographed just for us: Baby, Oh Baby!, Miles Away, and Chasing You. Will gave the first teach of a dance he choreographed just for the Wine Country crowd, Once Upon a Time, and he taught his most recent release, Breathing.
After a well deserved dinner break, the crowd reconvened for some open dance time, raffle prizes, and a special surprise for Bryan. We welcomed Bryan to his 4th decade in life with a big card signed by all the attendees and a delicious cake (donated by Chad Urquhart). After we sang “Happy Birthday” to Bryan, we handed the microphone to Will for an impromptu performance of the song “Good Morning Beautiful” (YouTube video).
We had some magnificent raffle prizes. Congratulations to the following winners:
Iris Ostling–50/50 cash prize
Lisa Rubens–Las Vegas Dance Explosion free pass
Ellen Krebs–our WCLD Niels Poulsen workshop
Ellen Krebs–$25 gift card to the movie theater (donated by Anita Jorge)
Dedra Wilson–our WCLD Ira Weisburd workshop free pass
Sally Homsi –Line Dance Marathon free pass.
Jessie Chan—Big Bang Dance Classic free pass
We are so happy to be able to spread the joy of line dance events through these passes, and we are grateful to the Mirandas, Jean Garr and Will Craig for their generous donations.
On behalf of Wine Country Line Dance, THANK YOU to all the great dancers who came to learn, dance, talk and laugh with us. A very special THANK YOU to the wonderful dancers who came early to help set up and stayed late to clean up. A big THANK YOU to John Trentacosti for bringing all his DJ equipment; to Peter Urquhart and Lawrence Yee for the delicious food they prepared, and to all the wonderful local instructors/dancers who encouraged their dancers and friends to come spend the day with us all. Wine Country Line Dance could not bring these wonderful choreographers and events to our area without all of your help and your support. Finally, THANK YOU to Bryan McWherter and Will Craig for taking time away from your jobs and family to spend these days with us in wine country. It was our privilege to have you with us and we will cherish the memories made while you were here.
Brenda, Dolly and Greta
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Teaches: | |
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Will Craig | Bryan McWherter |
Away We Go Bite The Dust by Harlan Curtis Breathing I Don’t Want Tonight Make You Dance Once Upon A Time People Are Crazy Watch It Burn Worldwide |
Accordion Love Baby, Oh Baby Chasing You Hi-A-Ma Cha by Rachael McEnaney Holler Oh Babe! by Frank Trace Miles Away |
Workshop Playlist | |
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1-2-3-4 2 Nite Baie Baie Blue Night Cha Blue Sky Caught In The Act Crazy Foot Mambo Cry Me Out Ding Dang Darn It Divisadero Cha Domenica Domino Everthing I Do Gravity |
Holler Oh Babe! I Belong To You I’m No Good Intrigue Love Letter Waltz Make U Luv Me Rock This Party Shakatak So Fresh Someone’s Gotta Go To Love Somebody Turn Me Loose Walking Backwards Wild, Wild West Wonderland Waltz |
Evening Dance Playlist | |
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Accordion Love Baby, Oh Baby Bam-A-Lam! Be A Little Selfish Behind The Glass Bittersweet Memory Breathing Cadillac Ride Can’t Get Involved Descarada Don’t Drop Your Cha Don’t You Remember Faithfully Feel Folla Me To Da Floor Freak A Little More Give It Back Had A Bad Day Have Fun, Go Mad Hi-A-Ma Cha Hurts Instead I Don’t Believe You Ice Imagine It Will Rain It’s Murda Jazzy Girl Jesse James Key West Sunset Sky Language Of The Heart |
Let Me C It Lock All The Doors Loving You Make You Dance Meet Me At The Altar Miss You 2 No Diggity Not A Criminal Once Upon A Time People Are Crazy Scandalous Shoop Signed Sealed Delivered Simpre Cha Something In The Water Still Water Runs Deep Street Soul Summer Boys That Kinda Lovin’ This City Tic Tok Drop To Infinity And Beyond Troublemaker W.T.F. (What The Funk) Watch It Burn Wikkidest Ting Without You Worldwide Yes, You Won’t |
A Report from Judy R. (an excerpt from WLDN)
Thank you Judy for submitting this entry to the World Line Dance Newsletter!
SUBJECT: WINE COUNTRY LINE DANCE EVENT with WILL CRAIG & BRYAN McWHERTER, PETALUMA, CA, 4/7/12
From: Judy
The morning was so clear, the colors so crisp that driving through the Golden Gate Bridge to Petaluma was so pleasantly perfect. The international orange bridge looks redder than ever and newer. She’s only going to be 75 years old next month. On Sunday, May 27th the big celebration happens. But they’re a little more cautious now on account of what happenned on her 50th anniversary. They closed it on May 27, 1987 to vehicular traffic expecting some 50,000 people to come for a walk on the bridge. Well, 800,000 showed up, more than the entire population of San Francisco. People were eyeball to eyeball. The weight flattenned the arch of the bridge by almost 10 feet at midspan and the 17 mile per hour winds swayed it from side to side. Claustrophobia and nausea all around. Oppss. Never again. You can’t subject a lady like that, no matter how young, to such extreme metal fatigue and to take away her charming curves, now really. So now the celebration is going to be around it and under it but not on it, with historic watercraft parade, music and dance stages on the waterfront, art installations, films, etc. and culminate with a spectacular fireworks show. That’s a little follow up on my last year’s report on the WCLD event where I mentioned the bridge’s upcoming 75th birthday.
No sooner had I said “what a delightful drive” when my car slowed down to a crawl. Freeway accident. So I arrived later than last year’s late. BRYAN McWHERTER was in the middle of teaching his BABY, OH BABY a 32 ct high beginner dance to the song Back In Time by Pitbull. WILL CRAIG before him taught his dance PEOPLE ARE CRAZY, a beginner dance to the same song. This was followed by workshops on techniques first by Will on Chacha (isolate your ribcage), waltz (rise and fall), hiphop; then Bryan on proper foot position, turns, spotting, head position.
Then it was lunchtime. There was open dancing by request and also in between teaches. I requested DOMENICA. When it was called, I rushed to the front. The music started. Nobody was beside me. I looked back and nobody was there either. In the past when this happenned, I retreated to my seat. But this time I thought I’d risk dying of embarrassment dancing all by myself rather than stop the music. It’s the English version of the beautiful Italian song “Diamante” by Zucchero.
Well, I survived and discovered that linedancing not only helps with my physical and mental wellbeing, by golly, it has given me a thicker hide too.
After lunch, the adjoining room was opened for beginners’ workshops. Will and Bryan took turns teaching intermediate and beginner dances. WILL taught 5 gorgeous intermediate dances: ONCE UPON A TIME, so new, it’s his first teach, 32 ct to Princess of China by Coldplay; BREATHING, 64 ct to Breathing by Jason Derulo; WORLDWIDE, 48 ct to International Love by Pitbull; the hit (love this dance) WATCH IT BURN to Adele’s Set Fire to The Rain (if this is not thinking outside the box lyrics I don’t know what is), and MAKE YOU DANCE, 32 ct to Tonight is the Night by Outasight. He also taught 2 more beginner dances: AWAY WE GO, 32 ct to Forever Road by Darius Rucker and I DON’T WANT TONIGHT 24ct to Don’t Want This Night To End by Luke Bryan, and an intermediate dance by Harlan Curtis, BITE THE DUST.
BRYAN taught his 64 ct intermediate dance ACCORDION LOVE (which I love) to the song Stereo Love by Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina, HI-A-MA-CHA by Rachel McEnaney (we’ve been dancing this for awhile around here); 2 more of his beginner dances: MILES AWAY 32 CT TO 93 Million Miles by Jason Mraz and CHASING
YOU 32 ct to I’m Yours by Straight No Chaser and HOLLER OH BABE by Frank Trace.
These two young men are remarkable not just for their big talent but also for their enormous energy and stamina, especially Will. He taught 10 workshops during the day, reviewed his dances during the open dancing at night, emceed and danced with us, then gave a hearty rendition of GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFUL. He can sing too! Bryan taught 7 workshops, cracked jokes and managed to turn 30 that night. I don’t know how he got to be that age, baby face and all. He was presented with a birthday cake and an even bigger birthday card which he opened looking for a check. It was a joy having two of the nicest and endearing choreographers around.
If these two guys have the energy and stamina, the three ladies behind the Wine Country Line Dance are indefatigable to match. GRETA SUMAGANDAY who DJed the entire event – the cutest DJ ever and for playing Domenica when there was only one person on the floor, she’s gotta be an angel too. DOLLY URQUHART, who greets you with such warmth like receiving a special guest to her home and making sure the food tables are abundantly stacked – there were sandwiches, vegetables, fruits, dessert, coffee and tea. I didn’t even need to go out for lunch, they had delicious vegetarian sandwiches. The ballroom temperature was perfect and the tables nicely decorated with balloons. BRENDA SHATTO, superb dancer and teacher. Big THANK YOU to you and your many volunteers and supporters for a most enjoyable event.
Next year on Feb. 15-16, Wine Country is hosting NIELS POULSEN. When somebody comes from that far across the Atlantic, let’s respond in kind. Come wherever you are, no matter how far. That’s easy for me to say since I’m only a stone’s throw away, but come anyway:):):):). Come and visit Petaluma, the perfect little city, so they say; site of American Graffitti, not far from San Francisco which also has a rich movie history. See you there next year and take care.
Judy Romanenkov
judybmr@sbcglobal.net
www.jbmrpaintings.com