Ballroom Dancing Classes

Teen Ballroom Dance Class
2009/2010 School Year
Gardendale Civic Center
Mondays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 
September 14 - October 19

We will do signups by six-week sessions.  For the first six-week time frame, we will start with three weeks of East Coast Swing followed by three weeks of Fox Trot.  Swing is the most fun, especially for young folks, and Fox Trot is the most common style of dance, that everyone ought to know.


The cost is $30 for the six-week session per student for the first two students in a family.  If there are additional children in the same family taking the class, they may attend for no charge; $60 will be the cap for student cost in any family.  *The class will be available for 7th - 12th graders.  Parents are welcome to join in the class if they would like.  Their cost would be $30 per person.


*The initial dances we will cover are Swing, Fox Trot, Waltz, Rumba and Cha Cha.  We work on one dance for about a month at a time, so the kids will feel fairly proficient in it by the end of the month.  If the class wants to expand into other dances, we can cover Samba, Tango, Mambo, Polka & Schottische.  Plus we always throw some line dances into the classes, as well.




*We generally throw an End-of-Year Dance for all the homeschool kids in the Spring every year, combining all of our classes.  Sometimes, we opt to have a couple of "field trips" instead, where we will bring one class at a time to either Concordia Club (our private dance club) on a Saturday night downtown, or to a regularly scheduled Birmingham Ballroom Dancers Association (BBDA) dance in Homewood on a Sunday afternoon.  We work with the clubs to get a discounted rate for our students and bring them (and any parents who wish to come) out for an evening of dancing in a "real world" setting.