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This Week's Social

Our summer social dance this year is being held on Saturday 19th May, from 6pm - 10pm in the Avon Drama Studio. All info can be found on the events page. Bring £2 and a dish...

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Free Beginner Classes

Thursday's (17th May) Free Beginner Class will once again be in WESTWOOD GAMES HALL at 6.30pm - 8.00pm.  We will be recapping the basic routines and adding more to Quickstep and Cha routines that have been taught. Perfect for...

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Nationals 2012

After some stellar results at a recent regional competition in Birmingham, Warwick Latin and Ballroom were feeling the pressure to match their success at the Inter-Varsity National Championships that took place in Blackpool on March...

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Check out our new gallery!

We've added a new section to the website which will be used to put some of the photos from dance socials, performances and competitions. Click here to take a look!...

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Warwick Latin and Ballroom Dancesport

Welcome!

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Hi, and welcome to the Warwick Latin and Ballroom Dancesport Website. Thanks for taking the time to check us out.

On our website you’ll find details of our classes, competitions, socials, events, performances and much more. There’s also a shed load of photos for you to look at to see what we get up to.

Whether you’ve been dancing for years or you’d just like to give it a go, our club has something to offer you. The vast majority of our members had no previous experience coming to uni, but that’s absolutely fine as we cater for complete beginners all the way up to advanced dancers. And our classes are structured so that you can commit as much time to the club as you like. We have members who train 7 times a week, and other members who come twice a term.

If you think you’d like to give it a go but you’re not sure, come along to class at the beginning of term. We are offering free Beginner classes in Term 3 (times and room below), where you'll get the opportunity to learn some of our 10 dances in a social environment, as well as picking up on some technique. If you love it, fantastic; if you don’t, no biggy, but definitely give it a try!

I never thought Latin and Ballroom dancing would be my thing, but after two years at the club, I couldn’t imagine my uni experience without it. We hope to see you there.

Andy Watters, Co-Vice President 2011/2012

Free Beginner Classes

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Thursday's (17th May) Free Beginner Class will once again be in WESTWOOD GAMES HALL at 6.30pm - 8.00pm.

 We will be recapping the basic routines and adding more to Quickstep and Cha routines that have been taught.

Perfect for the up and coming Sports Ball. It'll be a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, you don't need a partner and its a great way to blow off steam during a revision heavy term. Feel free to email one of our exec with any more queries.

 

WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU THERE!

 

Latin and Ballroom Tour 2012

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 Summary of Tour

Day 1:

All aboard the Cardiff bound train our intrepid dancing explorers were more than ready for ALLL the fun to begin.

We arrived at the Bunkhouse, the funkiest hostel know to man, complete with fairy lights, board games, bunting and beds in the bar and promptly proceeded with the customary photo challenge. Cue asking random strangers to participate in Paso highlights, cramming ourselves in phone boxes and finding celebrity lookalikes. Warwick officially made themselves known in Cardiff!

That night we enjoyed our first team meal in Prezzos and acquainted ourselves with various guests at the fine establishment that is Spoons.

Day 2:

We hopped on a train to Ystrad Mynoch, a name as hard to pronounce as it is to spell, where we had a 2 hour dance lesson with teachers Sean and Kay Perry at the New Cottage Dance Centre, working on waltz, cha and samba technique. The studio was amazing (it even had mirrors) and the teachers firm but friendly. We definitely learnt some things we’ll take away with us. Looky looky ping anyone?!

Back on the train to Cardiff and off for a well-deserved lunch to pacify those grumbly stomachs. The sun was shining, we were rocking our sunglasses and on our way to Barry Island. Tidy!

Laser Quasar on Barry Island, home to TV show Gavin and Stacey, was next on the agenda. Round 1; the Red team (Ian, Jess, Zoe, Andy, Yinka and Emily) take on the Green team (Matt, Jamie, Jo, Georgie, James and Nicole). It was nothing if not intense and the score was close at with Green beating Red 339-241. Round 2 and with everything to play for, same teams, different colour, the now Red Team blow the Greens out of the water with 553-4. DESTROYED.

One couldn’t go to the seaside without seeing the sea, so we saw the sea, had ice-creams on the pier, visited the arcades and had more childish fun.

Later that night we headed out in all our board game costume finery to a nearby pub for circling with some members of the Cardiff Latin and Ballroom society. They may have some practising of their Yee-Ha’s to do and whilst they may not have appreciated being told they were ‘shit and they knew they were’, a good time was had by all. We then sampled the Cardiff nightlife, visiting a few bars/clubs and obviously jiving/cha-ing at every possible opportunity.

Day 3:

The day of the Teddy’s bears picnic. Adorned in various costumes; think bears, bunnies, blankets and a strawberry, we visited the sprawling Cardiff Park, wherein we spent a delightful afternoon playing quizzes and ballgames.

Later that evening we joined Cardiff University for a Salsa and social class, giving us a nice opportunity to get to know them better and relay interesting stories about our tour names.

That night we headed out to Tiger, Tiger and Reflex for chart and cheesy music and whaddayaknow yet more Latin dancing, even acquiring a praising audience at one point.

Day 4:

Despite being thoroughly tired, achy and for some voiceless after our various antics, we ventured onwards, upwards and forwards to Cardiff Park where we played yet more games such as Slapbum, Bulldog and What’s the time Mr. Wolf? And then headed to Cardiff castle where we explored, napped and climbed a bajillion stairs for a beautiful view of the city.

Thank you to Andy for organising a truly fantastic trip which has generated some brilliant memories and was a lovely way to round off a very dance-orientated Term 2.

 

 

 

This Week's Social

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Our summer social dance this year is being held on Saturday 19th May, from 6pm - 10pm in the Avon Drama Studio. All info can be found on the events page.

Bring £2 and a dish of your choosing and you can expect fun dances, partner swapping, games, a buffet spread and awards galore. A great way to celebrate all that our club has achieved this year.

Nationals 2012

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After some stellar results at a recent regional competition in Birmingham, Warwick Latin and Ballroom were feeling the pressure to match their success at the Inter-Varsity National Championships that took place in Blackpool on March 3rd. With such a challenge ahead of us, we stocked up on pasta and journeyed up to the Mecca of Ballroom dancing with our game faces on.
Over 30 universities were in attendance, making this one of the toughest competition on our calendar, but Warwick University still managed to make Beginners, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced Finals in both Ballroom and Latin. One of our Beginner couples placed 4th in the Waltz, especially remarkable since this was only their second competition together. We also had Beginner couples make Quickstep and Jive semi-finals. Whilst Novice Northern’s champions Ian McDonnell and Jessica Green once again burned up the dance floor, achieving 3rd in Waltz and Quickstep. 
Intermediate couple Matt Hoather and Claire Hall danced their last student IVDC competition together and after a year of admirable success once again won medals for their Ballroom. We also saw our first Advanced Latin couple compete together; Tanya Bencheva and Armando de Viena, placing 5th, an amazing achievement considering their limited practice together. Three of Warwick’s ex-students also did brilliantly in their category, finished 4th, 6th and 7th, respectively.
As if this wasn’t enough, the Warwick A Team finished the highest ever in our history by making the Division 1 Play-Off Finals, whilst B and C Teams came 6th in their categories, both qualifying into Division 1 and therefore automatically beating several University’s teams in Division 2. In overall combined team results we finished 6th out of the over 30 universities competing, including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and Liverpool University, all of whom wielded strong teams. 
Our Offbeat performance ‘The Toys are Back in Town’ also gained 2nd place, although general consensus agrees we were robbed of 1st after such an original and well-executed concept. Kudos to Performance Co-ordinator Sorcha Exworthy and Choreographer Matt Hoather for creating such a fantastic routine and consistently doing well by Warwick in the Offbeat category. There’ll be a chance for Warwick University to catch a repeat of this dancing spectacular at the Warwick Student Arts Festival (WSAF) 2012 in Term 3.
All in all, after 12 hours of dancing on the day and even more spent practising routines and technique, Warwick Dancesport‘s team’s hard work and dedication paid off. But alas, no rest for the wicked, already we look forward to our Manchester Spring competition where we hope to round off an exciting and successful year for the club with more medals and merriment.

 

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