Category: Ballroom Dancing

  • New Year’s Resolutions for Dancers 1-13-15 Gabriela Young

    TIP FROM GABY 1-13-15 New Years resolution for your dancing. Since most of our students at the Santa Monica Arthur Murray are just starting on their Bronze programs, here are a few items you could add to your list of dance resolutions for 2015: If you’re a Bronze 1 dancer: A resolution for leaders: I…

  • Have the Greatest Year of Your Life! 1-2-15

    No 1 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, January 2, 2015 Have the Greatest Year of Your Life! For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his…

  • More Passion than Problems 11-28-14

    No 47 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, November 28, 2014 More Passion than Problems When I am dancing, I am happy and healthy. When I am dancing nothing hurts and there is no pressure in my life. Time stops when I dance, and when I continue to dance, time reverses and…

  • Recreating Yourself 9-19-14

    No 37 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, September 19, 2014 Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw How to create a new you? It can be through dancing and dancing can give you the courage to make the changes in your life that are…

  • What we are capable of becoming 8-29-14

    No 35 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 29th, 2014 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond…

  • The World Needs Dreamers 8-1-14

    No 31 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, August 1st, 2014 The World Needs Dreamers! The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. — Sarah Ban Breathnack All my life I have been a dreamer. As a little boy, I arranged fire…

  • 30 Day Dance Challenge August 2014 Every Day!

    7-30-14 Tip from Gaby Take the Arthur Murray 30-Day Dance Challenge! Get daily tips and instruction from Arthur Murray champion dancers, franchise owners and traveling consultants. Arthur Murray Dance Centers all over the world are going to be participation in a 30 Day Dance Challenge. Join us in this exciting event with daily exercises that…

  • Dance this Fall and Winter 7-25-14

    Invasion of the British Party! Unique Dance-0-Rama 2014 David Earl Woodbury No 30 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 25th, 2014 Getting Ready to Dance in the Fall and Winter! Wow, I’m planning out 2015. Those of you who know me are chuckling. Fall and Winter is just around the corner.…

  • Dear Gaby 7-22-14 Good Posture

      Tip from Gaby   Great reasons to develop good posture: 1) Efficiency Your legs and feet will work better while you dance, You will have more ease and flow from step to step. 2) Presence You will look and feel better on and off the dance floor, in the boardroom, at the gym, or…

  • Tip from Gaby – Unique DOR and Showcase 7-15-14

    7-15-14 Tip from Gaby So there you are standing in the lineup waiting to get out on the floor and perform your first dance at the Unique DOR or your first Studio Showcase. Your nerves have grabbed a hold of you and you can’t seem to shake it off. Here is something you can try:…