Local seniors plan dance party
Woodinville seniors who want to learn a variety of dances will soon have the opportunity to do so.
The Northshore Senior Center is planning a World Dance Party, its second, this month. At the party, several instructors will teach participants a variety of dances. The list includes a non-partner waltz, a Mexican line dance, a West African dance, a Bollywood dance, and a swing dance—the last complete with a fiddler providing accompaniment and a live caller.
According to Glen Felias-Christensen, a nurse and the chair of the center's diversity committee, the Bollywood dance was the final dance of the evening last year, and proved so popular that the event organizers had to include it again.
The center held the first World Dance Party last June, with about 125 to 150 people in attendance, according to Felias-Christensen. The center hopes it will attract as least as many attendees as last year, when about one third of the partygoers were from the center and the rest were from surrounding areas.
The party is intergenerational and inclusive, with people of all ages, religions, cultures, races, political views, sexual orientations, and ethnicities welcome. The fun begins April 8 and runs from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Center staff members might like to add to the fun by creating festive banners with a dance theme to hang in the venue.
The Northshore Senior Center is planning a World Dance Party, its second, this month. At the party, several instructors will teach participants a variety of dances. The list includes a non-partner waltz, a Mexican line dance, a West African dance, a Bollywood dance, and a swing dance—the last complete with a fiddler providing accompaniment and a live caller.
According to Glen Felias-Christensen, a nurse and the chair of the center's diversity committee, the Bollywood dance was the final dance of the evening last year, and proved so popular that the event organizers had to include it again.
The center held the first World Dance Party last June, with about 125 to 150 people in attendance, according to Felias-Christensen. The center hopes it will attract as least as many attendees as last year, when about one third of the partygoers were from the center and the rest were from surrounding areas.
The party is intergenerational and inclusive, with people of all ages, religions, cultures, races, political views, sexual orientations, and ethnicities welcome. The fun begins April 8 and runs from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Center staff members might like to add to the fun by creating festive banners with a dance theme to hang in the venue.