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This is what keeps the club alive. All of us recognize that we must teach new dancers to maintain an active membership. We teach on our “club nights” in order to ensure a high proportion of angels. This is one of the things that allows us to teach over 100 calls in 13 weeks. Our class runs twice a year, once during the fall semester and once during the spring. The class runs 13–14 weeks depending on the MIT academic calendar. The first 8 weeks or so, we teach Mainstream, the remaining time is devoted to teaching Plus. We pride ourselves on teaching APD (all-position dancing) and DBD (dancing by definition).
We offer PE credit the first half of fall term. The PE class officially meets 8:15-9:45 on Tuesdays.
Class Dance
Bill usually calls a mainstream Each semester, we hold a Mainstream dance for the class (open to the whole club) just after the class has finished learning mainstream. It is called by a member of the class committee.
Early Rounds
These round dance classes are currently our primary way of getting new and/or more experienced round dancers. The classes are run from 7 to 8pm and are taught by the evening’s cuer.
Amateur Night
One week in the summer (often August), club members have a chance to
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try being on the other side of the mike.
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See also How to Run Amateur Night.
Pool Dance
A wonderful Summer diversion in one of the MIT pools! Unfortunately, it is often both expensive and hard to organize, so it often happens only every two or three yearsmay not happen every year. Ideally, it is self-funding, but the club has been known to offer to subsidize the event. Typically, the officers appoint a willing organizer for this event. This person is responsible for investigating cost and availability of the MIT pools as well as organizing the dance proper. Usually, we spend most of the time in a shallow pool and finish with a brief tip in the deep endpool. This is usually called by one of our club members who are callers. Lately, Bill Ackerman has been handling the calling. The pool dance was last held in 2003 and organized by Sola Grantham. Note it It is never held the same night as the weekly club dance. A historical note, according to Bill Ackerman, these These pool dances were started in the 1980's by Larry Weinstein at , who came to Tech Squares from Bulldog Squares at Yale.
Other dances & workshops
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