February 24, Update

Following is link to entire Chinese New year Celebration on February 13, 2010 that a group from TMBC Line Dancing participated:
http://core.ecu.edu/itconsult/sunr/greenville%20chinese%20community/

We welcome the following who joined us on February 18, 2010:

Wanya Zhang
Jennifer Thigpen
Xiaixi Che
Missed First name Shan

See you Thursday, February 25, 2010, at 7:00pm.



February 10 Update:

As we have recently had an influx of new folks participating in Line Dancing, you may be interested in the videos we have of Jane Wang teaching:

http://www.tmbc.org/media/0902081/video.htm

and,

http://www.tmbc.org/media/0902082/video.htm

Links to both of the above are on our BetterHealthTMBC page at:

http://betterhealthtmbc.blogspot.com/

Jane Wange shared this email about Line Dancing this week:

What is Linedance?

Line Dancing is the 2nd most popular extra curricular activity in the World, using all rhythms of music. Originally, the most popular music used for line dancing is country music, now there are thousands of dances for Latin, soul and funk songs, etc. Line dancing is healthy for body and mind, it makes an hour fly by without any stress, and you can learn new steps and make new friends while staying fit. It is easy-to-follow, fun-to-do, fun-to-learn, and does not require a partner.

Line Dance is a formation dance where a group of people stands in a line or in lines, and they all execute the same dance moves. In a smaller group there may be only one line, but usually there are several parallel lines, one behind the other. In this parallel lines formation the dancers dance in a synchronized manner, but independently of each other. There are usually no moves that require any interaction between the dancers.

Line Dance is a choreographed style of dancing. That means, when you step out a line dance, you are following a sequence of steps that have been conceived by the choreographer or choreographers. Remembering the step sequences is actually more important than trying to learn a particular dance - while dances come into popularity and then vanish into oblivion, the step sequences are eternal - at least as eternal as line dancing. Progressing from novice to beginner to intermediate and finally to advanced is really a matter of learning more basic steps and increasing complex step sequences and integrating them together.

Original Post:
Some of the TMBC Line Dancing group will be participating in the celebration of Chinese New Years on February 13, 2010, at the Brody School of Medicine. More information can be shared by Jane Wang.

Partly because of the upcoming celebration we have had in influx of participants during January 2010, averaging over 20 persons per Thursday. and having 11 new folks participate one or more Thursdays.

On Thursday, February 4, 2010, while our Line Dancing group is in the TMBC Multi-Purpose Room, other Chinese Folk will be rehearsing other activities in the Lobby area.

A group of 11 dancers from the TMBC Line Dancing group perform at the Chinese New Years' celebration at Brody School of Medicine on Saturday, February 13, 2010. Interestingly the faces of Mike Szalkowski and Ladd Maxson are obscured by much prettier faces.