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Summerlinedancemania was definitely an unqualified success based on attendance and feedback. The attendance was excellent for a one workshop room local event thanks for so many of our Midwest area folks for making the drive down! I think the biggest challenge was trying to please some of the beginners who wanted to do some social dancing and many of their requests were not well known by the others. Although most of these folks only attended open dance and missed a quantity of beginner workshops that we had so I’m not sure how much stock to give in to this. While I could try and figure a way to please multiple groups of individuals, my best advice is for them to give the much larger Windy City event a shot in October where we will have dedicated workshops and a beginner open dance room for them to utilize. But overall, attendance was solid and we definitely had enough people to warrant another mini event next year.

A few things I did want to mention about Windy City this year. We no longer will have 2 rooms playing the same music at night, nor will we have review rooms taking away dancers at night. Watching this year after year it just seems to take away too many people each night from the main ballroom where we need the energy to remain active. But those who want to dance the new dances, don’t fret! You can still dance the dances in Jill’s room as we will have a schedule of dances that will be played and called (no walk-thru’s) by your instructors. In between, Jill will play the classics and beginner dances! We hope this solves the problem regarding people being pulled into too many rooms at night. Also, we do have a brand new ballroom that is located right across from Ballroom 2 called the Balmoral Room. Here we will have the Choreography Competition, thus freeing up more time for Open Dancing during the day in Ballroom 5. (See schedule when I finish it in a few weeks.)

As for our Top 10, Cry Me Out (Jakobsen) continues to even surpass my expectations as it far as popularity as it goes another month at number one, far ahead of the #2 dance this month, Hey Soul Sister. Dropping from our playlist are dances that didn’t score any points this month on the survey- Fiona (Barr), I Gotta Feeling (Poulson) and Moonlight Madness (Double Trouble). For a complete list of our current top 10 and Favorites check out our Top 10 page.

I also wanted to quickly mention my new facebook page called MarkCosenza.com. This will be used for videos and other great information so I hope any of you who have facebook accts check out and click on the Like button so you can find out when I’ve made some updates. You might want to check out Scott Blevins latest dance Trouble Is exclusively on this page. Just go to facebook and in the search field, type in MarkCosenza.com and you can see the video and others for yourself. And please let me know what you think!

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