The Dance Shack

After seeing the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra on New Year's Eve, we decided that we wanted to learn how to ballroom dance. After a quick Google search I found The Dance Shack and with a membership fee of $20/year, which brings your cost from $10/class to $5/class, we couldn't pass it up!

We tried to go to beginner's ballroom dancing on Friday night, but by the time Ryan got home from work we realized that we'd be late....so we decided to go the next night, to beginner's Salsa.

When we got to the Dance Shack, we were a few minutes late (Ryan relied on technology and it nearly took us into a lake...if you watch The Office, you know what I'm talking about) and there were 3 men and one woman about to get started. The woman, Carole, came over and explained that we could try the class out for free to decide if we wanted to purchase a membership.

So we took our places, women on one side, men on the other and facing each other and listened to our instructor explain the basic salsa move and then practiced it together with and without music before moving on to a simple turn.

I took Salsa in college (It was an actual class that I got 3 credit hours for) and Ryan had taken a class or two in the past himself, so the beginner's class was not too hard for us. After it ended, we decided to get a membership and stay for the intermediate class for a total of $40 for the year membership and $10 for the intermediate class.

The intermediate class wasn't too difficult either but it was more interesting since more people showed up to take it. I would have preferred to not switch partners, but I think in the future if I made that request, it would be fine. (According to their website)

I'm excited to go back for Ballroom lessons, since that is what we are really interested in, and I'll let ya know how it goes!