Category: Dancing Blogs
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“The A,B,C’s of Ballroom Dancing”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica Now you are a Ballroom Dancer! Congratulations. Just like driving, you might be a life-long driver, or sitting behind the steering wheel for the first time with your brand-new driver’s license. You are considered a driver! The moment you step on the floor,…
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“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile” Roger Staubach.
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica We live and work in Los Angeles County, specifically in Santa Monica. There are a lot of cars everywhere! Where there are stop signs, no one stops, and pedestrians walk across the streets at night wearing all black from head-to-tow looking down at…
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“There is an old saying that dreams come true one choice at a time.”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica Have your dreams come true? What are your dreams? How do they feel? Do you live your dreams? At 68 years old, I have had many seasons in my life. Seasons of extreme success. Magical times where everything was perfect and above and…
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“Chasing the Dream-Sneers Away”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica Do you dream? I do. I dream of my career. I dream of the Arthur Murray Dance Center and the success of our wonderful school. I dream often and I dream big. What is the challenge of dreaming? Your most trusted friend and…
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“How Do You Learn to Dance?”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica This may seem like a simple and obvious question, but how do you learn to dance? The answer is in the amazing Arthur Murray system of teaching. When you learn to dance at Arthur Murray, on your first lesson, you learn the Four…
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“How to Get Four Hours of Sleep in Fifteen Minutes”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica You must think I’m crazy writing this blog. What am I talking about? Here it is. Sometimes I wake up at 3 AM and I’m fully awake, and I must get up and get dressed. Sometimes I’m up all night with an upset…
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“The Wolf Who Wins is the Wolf We Feed”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica Recently I was introduced to this story “the wolf we who wins is the one we feed” and I immediately began reading and studying. “Feeding the two wolves” is a saying from a Cherokee story of two wolves fighting. This wolf who prevails…
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“What Can You Spell with CEILNST?”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica As a ballroom dancer, we are trained to listen to the nuance of the music and expressing that feeling through our dancing. We must hear the highs and lows, the fasts and slows. The beeps, the bops, the stops and the starts. In…
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“Blocking out the Noise”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica The great American Soprano, Renee Fleming, shares the stories of her two meetings with the great diva, Leontyne Price, regarding the skill of not listening to the noise of life. Ms. Fleming was going through some challenges and asked Madam Price, what do…
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“Soar on the Floor in 2024”
Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica A new year is such a wonderful time. New goals, new beginnings, new hopes and dreams, new opportunities. I remember my magical studio theme before the lockdowns “Seeing Clearly in 2020”. I had an entire year planned on that theme and well, you…