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Here's What's New at the NFA! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
National FastDance Association
3rd Quarter Newsletter July-September 2022 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
- NFA Leadership
- Multi-day Events July-September
- New Members
- Article about the Shag
We are delighted to announce that our new website is now finally up and running. It’s a VERY large website that shows all of our Member Clubs, our many multi-day dance events, our numerous Supporting Members that includes Instructors and Deejays, multiple videos showing many of our various dance styles and important up-to-date copyrighted music information
On our Home Page, you’ll find that we’ve even included a new “jukebox” feature where you can surf our site while enjoying lots of FastDance music that reflects many of our dance styles including Bop, Shag, Swing, Lindy, Country & Ballroom. We’ve even thrown in some of your favorite Line Dance and Disco music. SO ENJOY!!
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Many of our affiliated Clubs, Events, Instructors & Deejays hit the ground running with their dance/music activities beginning the first of the year. Whether a Club or Supporting Member, if you’ve yet to renew your 2022 membership, we invite you to complete your application for membership and licensing for 2022. There is an option on the application to deduct your 2021 music licensing credit, if applicable. We offer printable forms for you to mail in along with member dues and music licensing fees. We realize it can be difficult to estimate how many attendees you will have for 2022 , but just do the best you can. We can always reconfigure the numbers at a later date. If you have credit extended from 2021 and you just need to pay membership dues, you may do so by completing the membership form and send it along with dues by mail. We hesitate to refer you to our PayPal account as it has been unreliable as of late. We trust that 2022 thus far has been a great year for you in order to get back to some serious dancing!! Stay up to date on canceled events, share virtual classes, or just hang out with us on our Facebook group 😎
Newsletter Editor
bill@fastdancers.com
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Bill Maddox, Founder/President
Founder - National Boppers Hall of Fame
Founder - Club Savoy Inc., Jax, FL
Co-founder - Florida Boppers, Inc. (FBI) Honored by induction into the following: Advisory Committee Ellen Taylor, Terry Rippa, Denny Martin, Phil Dorroll, John Lindo, Anne Henry, Ray Coker
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MULTI-DAY EVENTS JULY - SEPTEMBER 2022
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SHAG DANCING
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The Shag is a VERY popular dance style known mostly in the southern United States and is most commonly associated with the beach towns of North and South Carolina.
It is a two-person, male-led dance with a basic 6-count step that allows much room for improvisation and imagination. The dance looks deceptively smooth and easy but is actually quite complicated. Although the evolving Shag was done to jazz and swing music in the ‘20s and ‘30s, the modern Shag began gaining more popularity on the Carolina coasts in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Billy Jeffers, who deemed himself a “fastdancer”, not a Shagger, became one of the first “stars” associated with the dance during the ‘40s and early ‘50s. Next came names such as “Chicken” Hicks and “Big” George Linberry, who helped infiltrate the Carolina coast with the smooth sound of “beach music” and practiced the smooth steps that would become the modern Shag. Ther were many beach club pavilions sporting dilapidated outsides and wooden dance floors where teenagers would sneak off and dance the night away. Probably the most famous of all these dance clubs was the Pad in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Now in its prime, the Shag has become more than just a dance. It is a social phenomenon with dancers from all over the country drawn to its image of daring and excitement.
In 1954 Hurricane Hazel had demolished most of the old dance pavilions and rock n’ roll had surpassed Shag music in popularity. But the Shag was revived in the early ‘70s when a competitive dance circuit formed in Atlantic Beach, NC inspired a renewed interest in the dance. In the early 2000s, the Society of Stranders (SOS) and the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC) listed thousands of members and there are millions of people nationwide who dance the Shag. Editor's note: Excerpts of this article are from the Encyclopedia of North Carolina by William S. Powell. Future newsletter articles will be about the numerous FastDance styles promoted by the NFA.
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Boston Swing Central
mike@bostonswingcentral.com
www.bostonswingcentral.org
The Way You Move
Larry & Sherri Bunch
sherri@thewayyoumove.us
Time To Dance
Dance Instructor
Michael Stephens
Houston, TX
michael@timetodance.biz
Stompin' at the Bit Productions
Martha Prazenka
Pine Grove, PA
stompinatthebit@gmail.com
Subey Dance Dojo LLC
Bonnie Cannon Subey
Dance Instructor
Atlanta, GA
bonnieandjerome@gmail.com
www.subeydancedojo.com
Dean Sumida
Dance Instructor
Hilo, HI
hilodance2018@gmail.com
Ricky Smith
Dance Instructor
Grifton, NC
rsmith1261@yahoo.com
The Philadelphia Swing
& Jazz Dance Assoc.
jazzattackswings@gmail.com
Memories Beach Club
Atlantic Beach, NC
Danny Navey
dannyatbeach@ec.rr.com
www.memoriesbeachclub.net
Line Dance With Laurie
Springfield, VA
Laurie Armstrong
Instructor
trailrider123@cox.net
Kaleidoscope Dance Space
Mesa, AZ
Trudy R. Sherman
info@kaleidoscope-dance.com
www.kaleidoscope-dance.com
Huntsville Ballroom
Huntsville, AL
huntsvilleballroomdance@gmail.com
www.huntsvilleballroom.com
Jen's Dance Spot
Instructor
San Antonio,TX
trevinofamily13@gmail.com
Dance America Productions
Lutz, FL
Provides dance floors, AV, LED
Video Wall, Pipe & Drapes
Nina Kimbrough
nina@danceamerica.net
www.danceamerica.net
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Central Coast Country Dance
Santa Maria, CA
Vanessa Robertson
vanrobertson@verizon.net
Celia Costa
Instructor
No contact info. provided
Dancing Duo
Dave & Donna Spangler
Instructors
Roanoke, VA
info@dancingduo.net
www.dancingduo.net
Dance Floor Productions LLC
Villa Park, IL
April Prince
april@aprilprince.net
www.thechicagoclassic.com
Dance Lessons LLC
Bradley Mather
Instructor
Randolph, MA
bradley@bradleymather.com
May I Have This Dance, Inc.
Dance Studio
Nini DiGiulio
Chicago, IL
ninodigiulio@gmail.com
www.mayihavethisdance.com
Johnny Angels
Jacksonville, FL
Donna Ghanayem
donna.ghanayem@jax.ufl.edu
Maria Cirino
Instructor
Syracuse, NY
dancingwithmaria@gmail.com
www.dancingwithmaria.com
Jeffrey Callejo Jr.
Instructor
jrclinedance@gmail.com
Blase's Hall
Hallettsville, TX
Erik Konvicka
e_knovicka@hotmail.com
Facebook.com/Blases Hall
The Denver Turnverien
Denver, CO
Art Abington
president@denverturnverein.com
www.denverturnverein.com
The BS Brothers
Deejays
Tallahassee, FL
Bruno Biehler
bvbiehler@gmail.com
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