Come out on Club Night Out on Sunday, November 22 to Lakeside Swing and take a workshop from John Lindo at the same time.

SCHEDULE:
•  6:00pm                       doors open
•  6:30 - 7:30pm           workshop with John Lindo 
•  7:30 - 10:30+pm       general dancing

COST: before 7:30, includes workshop: $16     after 7:30: only $10!

LOCATION: Oakland Veterans Hall at Lake Merritt., 200 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA

December Next Gen Club Dance

Please join The Next Generation Swing Dance Club at the Allegro Ballroom in Emeryville for our monthly club dance on Saturday, December 5. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The DJ is Rupert Schroeder and  the lesson is being offered by Samantha Buckwalter. Our contest is the fourth preliminary round of the new "Luck of the Draw" series. More information about contests at Next Gen Club Dances can be found here.

The dance starts at 6pm.
 The lesson is from 7-8pm in the back room. The $7 member / $12 non-member / $5 student entrance fee includes the lesson and dance.

A Day With the Stars

The Next Generation Swing Dance Club invites you to save the date for a fabulous Day with the Stars! On Saturday, March 6, 2010, national champions Deborah Szekely, Robert Cordoba, Melissa Rutz, and Arjay Centeno will combine their effort to provide you with three dramatic workshops.  Mark your calendars for 1:30 - 5:00, followed by TNGSDC Annual Meeting at 5:00 and the Club dance at 6:00 -- all at the Allegro Ballroom.

The address of the Allegro Ballroom is 5855 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, and is conveniently located off of I-80 next to the Powell Street exit (just past the IKEA and Trader Joe's). Coming from I-80, take the Powell Street exit headed East, turn left on Christie Avenue just past the Denny's, and turn left into the parking lot at the last entrance in front of the strip of buildings. The Allegro is to the back of the strip.

Congratulations to the winners of Preliminary Round #3 of Next Gen's Luck of the Draw dance contest. These dancers placed 1st through 5th out of 20 couples competing.

We will have 8 preliminary Luck of the Draw rounds with the finals at the Next Gen dance on June 6, 2010. Couples who place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd during the preliminary rounds qualify for the finals.

1st Place: Tim Stevenson & Mackenzie Goodmanson  finalists

2nd Place: Brad Whelan & Laurie Shafer  finalists

3rd Place: Matthew Levine & Yenni Setiawan  finalists

4th Place: Andrei Dumitriu & Cheryl Groh

5th Place: Michael DiFranco & Trish Hughes

Judges: Kelly Casanova, Brooke Frances, Michelle Kinkaid, Alvin Low, Teresa Roebuck, Marla Bach Saltzstine, Tom Sepe

Administrators:
Chief Judge: Tom Sepe
Scorer: Brooke Frances
Contest Coordinator: Kim Sifter

Put Some DRAMA in Your Life!

Deborah Szekely

Robert Cordoba

And

Melissa Rutz

Arjay Centeno . . . ..present three workshops March 6

We've added a Next Gen Forum for community information on various topics relating to the The Next Generation Swing Dance Club. This is just in time for coordinating with fellow members if you need a ride to the upcoming Next Gen. Don't forget about the bridge closure--plan ahead and share a ride with other dancers--connect on the forum!

The forum link is at the top of the site, just to the right of the Boogie by the Bay link.

Create your own listings on the Calendar!

Anyone can easily add their own event to the Next Gen Dance calendar! It's free and it's pretty easy. Historically, calendar entries were maintained by the webmaster. It had to be that way because the old site was the old technology. Not anymore! The idea is that this is a community website and members are encouraged to contribute and interact, not just take and partake. When we first put the site up, I manually rekeyed all the calendar entries into the new calendar system. With the new website upgrade, we're now able to be more proactive in getting the membership online. So, now you can find your own userid and password to get logged in and create and manage your own entries on the calendar and other places as well.

Welcome to the Next Generation Swing Dance Club. We've been around for going on 20 years (since 1989)--promoting and encouraging the fun and art of West Coast Swing and other social and swing dances. The club's monthly dances in Emeryville are a must do for any West Coast Swing dancer. Our annual Boogie by the Bay dance convention in Burlingame is one of the best in the country. Join and get involved with the club to reap some of these great benefits:

• Get to know other dancers and make new friends
• Discounted admission on our popular Monthy Dances (save $5* per dance!)
• Discounted weekend tickets to Boogie by the Bay (save $15!)
• Discounted prepaid admissions available (save $6* per dance!)
• Discounts at other select reciprocating Swing Dance Clubs (save more $)
• Monthly newsletter in the mail and online
• Membership directory to help put you in touch with others
• Borrowing privileges from our club video library

So don't wait! Start realizing the benefits of membership now! Join here online or bring a check and fill out the application at our next dance and start saving.

* Discount is from non-member admission price of $12.00