Part One, The Latest at Kapolei
By Tim Cubero Jr.
What dancing enthusiasts!
Aloha and Welcome to All Our Friends Who Follow Us at
kapoleihbda.wordpress.com (HBDA Kapolei website)
and http://dancingpower.blogspot.com/ (The Platinum Horseshoe)!
Our 3rd Quarter dance classes at Kapolei Elementary School are a favorite, as we are learning the East Coast Swing, the Viennese Waltz, and the Bolero. What a nice variety of distinctive styles this is to be able to learn and do on the dance floor: a dance with snappy syncopated timing in a distinct delay or relaxed approach to timing, the Swing: the original form of the waltz called the Viennese Waltz, known as the very first ballroom dance in the closed hold; and the romanticism of the Bolero, its slow- tempo Latin music that you can put your feet to.
Thank you, much, to our instructors Eric and Gail Tiwanak for bringing us this rich diversity of dance forms that we enjoy learning. Most especially is their central emphasis on us learning “style” that makes our appearance on the floor significant! Gail and Eric, we appreciate this!
In class, our many new classmates have found no problem if they come in with no partner! Although we have a few ladies without dance partners, they found it safe not to be expected to perform solos (smile). Our perceptive and most experienced instructors are seasoned to work around what could have been a problem by having all of us exchange partners every so often. No problem at all, you see!
Eric and Gail are also putting together another dance routine, this time East Coast Swing, for our Kapolei chapter dance routine at this upcoming Christmas Charity Fundraiser at the Ala Wai Palladium on December 3. They have not finalized the routine just yet, but we know it’s going to be a fun one. And we hope to have more students join in this time.
Oh, did I tell you that Eric was our past HBDA Council president for two years, and do you know that his wife Gail is our current president for our organization that has been in existence since 1959?
With nine brand new members in our Kapolei chapter this quarter, see, you could have been added to our growing list of “friends” and newborn dancers. My goodness, I’ve commented to newcomers that, “See, you already are beginning to look like a dancer on the first night!” HBDA brings the best and brightest teachers to make us all look good – not just for these pictures you are staring at but also for the dance floor that waits for the rhythm of your feet. Talking about “Pleasure.”
