July/August 2006
Volume 1, Issue 6
Dance Studio News fur memfurs and furriends
We've all had a good time learning to dance here. Wiff classes in ballet, tap dancing, jazz, Latin and ballroom, and special emphasis on the country western and line dancing classes this time, it sure has been fun! Our dancers must be the most talented kitties anywhere, and how we all luff Dance Nights! We want to thank mew fur your great purrticipation. There is still lots more to learn and do.
To start in any dance classes or attend Dance Nights, just check our schedule here. To apply fur membership in the dance studio, just send us an email here. Memfurs needn't take classes to use the studio or attend dance nights unless they want to. Tell your furriends about the studio, and encourage them to join, too. We luff to get new memfurs.
We've been having a great time in our spotlighted Country Western and Line dancing classes, and had some supurr Dance Nights! We know all mew country boot-scooters haf been waiting, so come to see your pictures right here and linked again at "Dance Pictures" below. Be sure to pick up your special gift fur attending, on the second page, too.
We will not be having Spotlights during the summer. We know that's a time when kitties like to be lazy, stay in where it's cool, or efen might be going on vacations. The studio will haff a reduced schedule of dance classes fur summer, but we will soon be starting a new class in Irish Step Dancing! That is a furry fun kind of dance, and we're looking furward to it.
We will let mew know what new and exciting plans are next in the Fall.
We haf a wonderfur supply of dance needs fur mew in our Shoppe as always. Our special this time is a neat Line-dancing T-shirt. Mew country dancers are sure to want one. We've tried furry hard to keep up wif the requests fur ear plugs, but no, dey doesn't come in meowmie-size. Sorry! Please let us know if mew would like us to order anything else.
Now fur our regular dance article:
Tips Fur Line Dancing
by Phelicity
Line dancing has been around fur a long time, and it's so fun! We kitties are good at it, too ... err...... except fur one thing. We gots to count right while we's learning it. And doing it. And apologizing to who we kicked. My counting used to go 1-2-3-5 ooops, scuse me, 7-9-10- what? Oh. Sorry. 6-7-but I already said 7-owww.
Den I learned to scoot when I furget a number. Scooting works furry well. That is, if mew scoot in the same direction as the other kitties, who by now are going the other way. I likes to rub noses but I doesn't like to bump dem. And let us not efen mention feet.
Next I tried a kick fur the numbers I ..uh...missed. Kicking works furry well, too, and it's fun. We don't haf hay bales in the studio to get the toe of our boot stuck in, like dey haf at some places. But why was I facing left and efurykitty else was facing right? Hmmm. One of dem numbers meant to turn, I guess. So that's where I was when I furst learned to line dance.
I'm a dancing teacher, not a math teacher. Some kitties are whizzes wif numbers, but I'm the other kind. Mew know those big signs on the studio wall wif all the numbers up to 32? That was my idea. But as we all got better enuff to do more involved steps, I discovered the numbers go to 64 wif some of dem dances. Eeeeek. I know from all the laffing an falling down an running into walls we did in class that I'm not alone in going eeek. So this is a recap of the tips Ginger and I gave mew as we got ready fur Dance Nights.
All the line dances we do haf steps in groups of 4. So it would be easy to say the numbers if we could multiply. Ummmmm..... see above about what kinda teacher. Is there an easier way to do that? Yup. All we needs to do is repeat the 4. 1-2-3-step. 1-2-3-step. It worked, right? And when we think it's time to start over, 1-2-start-over worked just fine, don't mew agree? Line dances are simple moves that only take one word. I much purrfur words to numbers, so that makes it easier, too. 1-2-3-turn, 1-2-3-kick, 1-2-3-scoot. Didn't that work great?
There was still some confusion about left and right, but that's directions. Dancing teachers are furry good at directions. As we explained, Left is the paw mew tip the water dish over wif, and Right is the paw mew bat feather toys wif. Simple, wasn't it? Soon as we all got that down, we sure had a great time in classes! It's been so lotsa fun that now some studio memfurs are asking us about square dance lessons.
I luff square dancing! Girls get to wear ruffley dresses fur square dancing! Tell mew what, we will let mew know after we see if it might involve geometry.
Here's a review of a great new DVD we got in the shoppe fur this country-western time.
Annie Get Your Gun
by Phelicity
We now haf the DVD of the 50th Anniversary edition of this great big colorful movie! My mom saw it when it was first released in 1950. She was just a baby of course. (She tole me to say that.) This isn't really a dancing movie; it's a rompin' stompin' western musical wif lotsa great songs and exciting show acts.
The two main characters are Annie Oakley, played by boisterous Betty Hutton, and Frank Butler, played by suave and debonair Howard Keel. The story was based on these two real peoples, along with Buffalo Bill (when he was purrty old) and even Chief Sitting Bull, way back in the days of the Old West. Dem sure was exciting days!
Annie Oakley was a backwoods girl and a natural sharp-shooter. She could outshoot any man living, efen Buffalo Bill! When he and Frank furst met Annie, she was sorta a mess to look at and didn't sing too good either, but after she beat Frank in a shooting match, dey got her to join their traveling Wild West show. Annie was soon performing in shows all over the world. She cleaned up real good and turned out to be purrty, which it's a good thing, cuz she also soon fell in luff wif Frank Butler. And he was sure purrty .. and sure could sing good.. and... ahem. The problem was, dey was both exhibition shooting stars and rivals and both furry competative.
Now I belief in competition, but maybe not wif a boy mew hopes will luff mew back. Annie was starting to figger that out, but right in the middle of figgerin, she got into a big, funny song battle wif Frank called "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better." hmmmm, she needed to quieten down a liddle if she wanted to be Frank's "The Girl That I Marry" in dem days.
There's lotsa great western costumes and songs and horsies and Indian stuff here. It's really a fun movie, and I know mew will enjoy it, too. Did Annie get Frank in the end? Get the movie and find out.
If you haff any dance related news you would like us to announce, please email us at cat_mountain2003@yahoo.com.
Our good furriend and studio memfur Annie has recently opened:
Be sure to visit; she has some great dance outfits, costumes and warmup clothes!
Previous monff's newsletters are here:
May/June 2006
March/April 2006
February 2006
January 2006.
Nov-Dec. 2005.
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