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2008 Workshop.  HOWDY PARDNERS!  We had a rip-roarin’ good time at the “Best Little Workshop in Texas” this year!  The fun started Thursday evening, April 17th with an open dance party.  The Workshop was Friday, April 18th, and continued on Saturday afternoon, April 19th, in the ballroom of the Farmers Branch Senior Center.  Check this video to relive some of the fun!  See y’all next year at the 2009 Workshop.

 

2009 Workshop.  We already have a date for next year's Workshop... mark your calendar!  We need each unique spark from every dancer to keep our flame a-burnin’.  Next year's Workshop is April 16-18, 2009, which includes the Thursday night party!  We hope you will return to carry on this tradition of fun and friendship.  And, if you missed the Workshop this year, don’t let it happen again! 

 

A Big Thank-You to Everyone!  Now, back to the 2008 Workshop.  We want to thank all them cattle rustlers, horse thieves, gamblers, flim flammers, and ladies of… uh, well, you know… that showed up at the event.  Seemed like everybody thar was a wanted outlaw…lessen, of course, they claim it was a long-lost relative whose picture was up on them wanted posters! 

 

Even with such questionable characters in attendance, the Workshop was a huge success and we owe a great big THANKS! to everybody who attended.  We have a loyal following of Texas and non-Texas participants whose support enables us to continue every year to hold this special event that presents and teaches the dances nominated to be a part of the Texas Line Dance Jamboree.  It was a very special group of teachers and students who attended the Workshop and we want you to know we are extremely grateful for your presence.  There were many newcomers on the scene and that was a tremendous boost for us.  Not only did we have new people from Texas, but also from Kansas, Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma, and Washington state!!! 

 

A Special Thanks to the Instructors.  We want especially to thank   Michael Barr and Michele Burton for their fun-loving enthusiasm and top-notch teaching skills!  They opened the “doors” to give it “life,” “giggles,” “wiggles,” “funk,” “flow,” and just a touch of the “blues.”   Yes, at the Workshop we truly did “dance with the stars!”

 

We also thank Mona Puente, not only for her firecrackin’, finger-snappin’-good teaching techniques, but also for leading her team to dazzle us with another awesome performance by the TEXAS BOOTSCOOTERS!  They were, indeed, amazing and we were so privileged to have them for a second year.

 

And, thank you Rosalee Musgrave for a job well-done!  Rosalee good-heartedly “boogied” and “banded” along with us to give us her wonderfully professional teaching style.  

Michael Barr

Michael Barr

Michele Burton

Michele Burton

Mona Puente

Mona Puente

 

Dances.  Below is a complete list of dances taught at the Workshop.  Click on the dance for a step sheet.  By vote of the Texas line dance teachers, eight of the  dances (shown with a ) were selected in late May as primary (new) dances for the Jamboree in October.  Congratulations on some great and varied selections!

                      

Dance & Choreographer

video 

Music & Artist

Amor de Hielo - Debbie Ellis

Amor De Hielo - David Civera

    Bandstand Boogie - Annie Saerens

Bandstand Boogie - Scooter Lee

Charanga - Rachael McEnaney

La Charanga Cubaila (radio mix) - Cubaila

Doors of Life - Michael Barr

The Door Of The Life - Mariya Takeuchi

Firecracker - Robert Lindsay

You Set My Heart On Fire - Helena Paparizou

Funkafied Blues - Jo Thompson Syzmanski

Funkafied Blues - E. C. Scott

    Hey Diddle Diddle - M. Burton & M. Barr

Diddle Diddle Swing - Genius + Love

If You Don't Know - Pauline Greenwood

If You Don't Know Me By Now - Human Nature

Rebel Amor - Roy Verdonk & Wil Bos

Rebelle Amor - Belle Perez

    Rock With You - Michael Barr

Rock With You Now - The Bama Band

Rollin' With The Flow - John "Growler" Rowell

Rollin' With The Flow - Mark Chesnutt

    Temptation - Peter Metelnick & Alison Biggs

Temptation - Arash featuring Rebecca

    Zjozzys Funk - Petra van der Velden

Bacco Perbacco - Zucchero

     

 

Workshop Memories.  We’ve put together a collection of scenes from this year’s Workshop and hope you will enjoy looking at them and remembering the fun weekend we had together... click on the thumbnail for a larger picture.  Several people voiced the sentiment that even though the dances selected and the teaching and the craaaaazy art work and the entertainment were terrific, those things were not the most important.  What was uppermost in importance was the people who gathered together—and the renewing of old friendships and the making of new friendships.  That was the most valued part of the Workshop. 

Thur Night

Thur Night

Thur Nigh

Bootscooters

Workshop

Workshop

Michael

Youngest-at-Heart

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop

Wanted Posters

Michele

Dorothy, Merilyn

 and John

2009 Workshop.  We hope you will return next year to carry on this tradition of fun and friendship.  And… if you missed the Workshop this year, don’t let it happen again!  We need each unique spark from every dancer to keep our flame a-burnin’.  Remember, the date for next year's Workshop is April 16-18, 2009, which includes the Thursday night party!  See you next year at the...   

 

FARMERS BRANCH LINE DANCE JAMBOREE WORKSHOP

 

The Best Little Workshop in Texas!”