Our Learn To Dance Spring 2024 Quarterly Update includes:

News/Events Coming Up

• 18th Anniversary Party
• Deadline for Bournemouth Weekend Discount
• Spring Dinner & Dance
• Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day
• Simply Swing Live Band Event
• Vienna Dance Weekend

What You May Have Missed

• Flavia Cacace Workshops
• Glastonbury Dance Weekend
• Good Friday Tea Dance
• Relaunch of our YouTube Lessons
• Latest Schedules to Download

Upcoming Workshops

• Sat 18th May – Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day
• Sun 19th May – start of Beginner Rumba Course
• Mon 20th May – start of Bachata Course

News & Events Coming Up

18th Anniversary Party

Can you believe that Learn To Dance is turning 18 this month!

We’ll be celebrating with our annual anniversary party on Friday 26th April from 7pm (dancing from 8.30pm). Read more…

Deadline for Bournemouth Discount

Tuesday 30th April is the deadline for the Bournemouth dance weekend advance payment discount. Pay in full to save £15pp.

Dinner, bed & breakfast; morning Quickstep & Jive workshops, as well as a ‘Guys & Molls’ theme on the Saturday night. Use of leisure facilities and discounted spa treatments also available.

Read more….

Spring Dinner & Dance

Our Spring Dinner & Dance takes place on Friday 10th May.

Places cost £40pp and include a welcome drink and two course menu.

All bookings and menu choices required by 3rd May Read more….

Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day

Learn To Dance look forward to welcoming Strictly Legend Kristina Rihanoff to our studio on Saturday 18th May.

Four workshops, covering different Latin American dances, all over 50% booked already! Read more…

Simply Swing Live Band Event

On Friday 28th June we’ll be welcoming the Ballroom & Latin American band Simply Swing to the dance studio for an evening of live music for dancing.

There’ll be a five-piece band playing a variety of strict tempo music. Whether you want to dance, or just enjoy the live music, it’s guaranteed to be a great night.

Tickets costs £50pp. Read more…

Vienna Dance Weekend

Following just a few years of restricted travel we are ecstatic to be able to reintroduce our Vienna dance weekend in 2025.

Flights from London Heathrow, transfers and three nights of 4* accommodation. We will be visiting the Johann Strauss ball for an Gala evening featuring a three course menu followed by a ball with a mixture of Ballroom, Latin and traditional Viennese Waltzes and Polkas.

Please contact our travel agent Mark Pollard to confirm your package price and to book/get more details.

What You May Have Missed

Flavia Cacace Workshops

Back in February we were honoured to welcome Strictly Legend Flavia Cacace to our dance studio for an afternoon of Argentine Tango workshops.

It was a really fun and informative afternoon and you can see a highlight reel on our Instagram page (full gallery to be uploaded).

Next up is Kristina Rihanoff in May for a morning of Latin American dance workshops!

We hope to have Erin Boag revisit us in November and we should have confirmation of this next month.

Glastonbury Dance Weekend

Our ever-popular Glastonbury Dance Weekend was a great success, with some wonderful Bollywood themed outfits for the Saturday night.

Coupled with that we had put together a great Cha Cha Cha routine that started simple(ish) enough, before progressing to a tricky but fun routine.

Our Bournemouth Dance weekend in October is available to book now.

Good Friday Afternoon Tea

On Friday 29th March we held our annual Good Friday Afternoon Tea.

This gave us the perfect opportunity to try out some five-tier cake stands we’d purchased, and given the amount of food our caterer provided I’m glad we did!

It was a wonderful start to the Easter weekend and we look forward to our next catered event, our Spring dinner & dance in May.

Relaunch of YouTube lessons

Emma and Antony have relaunched their YouTube video lessons, and yes with the unavoidable outtakes at the end of each video too!

Starting initially with companion videos to our Beginner Waltz course we plan to expand into other lessons as time allows.

You can check out our Beginner Waltz lessons playlist, or if you want to check out our channel you can find us at YouTube.com/learndance.

Download Updated Schedules

Want to download our most recent schedules (as at 19th April 2024), rather than picking up a printout? Use the links below:

• Beginner Details (updated 07/09/23)
• Dates for your Diary (updated 09/04/24)
• Schedule of Dances (updated 20/03/24)
• Class Timetable (list) (updated 08/01/24)
• Class Timetable (schedule) (updated 08/01/24)
• FitSteps Details (updated 08/01/24)
• Weekly Tea Dances (updated 08/01/24)

See you soon!

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News and Notices

Instagram…a tribute to Len

I’m sure everyone by now is aware of the sad news of Len Goodman’s passing this past week. Whilst we didn’t know Len personally, we did have a wonderful memory of working with him way back in 2011 which we shared on instagram this week.

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Spring Dinner & Dance

Our Spring Dinner & Dance takes place this Friday 5th May.

This will be in part a celebration of the upcoming coronation so we will have a red/white/blue theme.

We have managed to make an additional 4 places available and final numbers are required by Sunday evening. So book now and join us on another sell-out event!

Bournemouth Discount Deadline

This year’s Bournemouth Dance weekend will be covering Waltz & Salsa from Friday 6th-Sunday 8th October.

You can save £15 per person if you book and pay in full before the end of April (this Sunday!).

To see more details of the break, and book online, check out the details here.

School Closed Over Coronation Weekend

The school will be closed over the Coronation Weekend, Saturday 6th-Sunday 7th May.

We do have our Spring Dinner & Dance on Friday 5th May, in part celebrating the King’s Coronation the next day.

Waltz & Jive Courses

Our current Quickstep & Cha Cha Cha courses are coming to an end next month and making way for new courses.

We will have a Jive course starting from Wednesday 17th May, and a Waltz course from Monday 22nd May.

The courses cost £45pp for a 6 week block, and the courses are extended as long as enough students wish to continue.

Spring Exam Session

Twice a year we hold exam sessions under the National Association of Teachers of Dancing (NATD).

Exams are available for all age groups and abilities, with Rainbows for our under 8s all the way up to President’s Awards.

Our next exam session takes place on Sunday 21st May and there is still time to start working towards your first exam.

Just let us know if you are interested and we can go over all the details with you.

Change to Sunday Workshops

Due to declining numbers in our Sunday workshops we have made the decision to cancel Sunday Improver, Intermediate and Advanced workshops with immediate effect.

Sunday Sequence & Social workshops will continue for the moment.

For the next few weeks both Antony & Denise will open up additional private lesson availability whilst we review what will take place on Sundays.

Read more and let us know what you’d like us to replace them with….

Upcoming

Dance Workshops

• Sun 30th April – Bossa Nova 66 Sequence & Social
• Wed 17th May – start of Jive Course
• Mon 22nd May – start of Waltz Course

Social Events

• Every Monday – Weekly Tea Dance
• Fri 5th May – Spring Dinner & Dance

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Our Spring 2023 Quarterly Update includes:

News/Events Coming Up

• Anniversary Party this Friday
• Deadline for Bournemouth Discount
• Spring Dinner & Dance Deadline
• School Closed over the Coronation Weekend
• Sunday Workshop Changes
• Changes to Social Event regularity
• Waltz & Jive Courses starting next month

What You May Have Missed

• First Dance Choreography Award
• Glastonbury Dance Weekend
• ‘Silent’ Social For Comic Relief
• Good Friday Afternoon Tea
• A Tribute To Len

Upcoming Workshops

• Sun 30th Apr – Bossa Nova 66 Sequence
• Wed 17th May – start of Jive Course
• Mon 22nd May – start of Waltz Course
• Sun 25th June – Tango Serida Sequence

Other workshops will be announced subject to decisions made about our plans to change Sunday workshops.

News & Events Coming Up

Anniversary Party Fri 28th Apr

This Friday sees us celebrating 17 years of Learn To Dance! The evening starts from 7pm with welcome drinks and socialising, then the evening dancing starts from 8.30pm.

Advance booking preferred, to allow us to make sure we have enough bubbly! However you can just turn up on the night. Read more….

Bournemouth Discount Deadline

Sunday 30th April is the payment deadline for saving £15pp on our Bournemouth Dance weekend.

We’ll have Waltz & Salsa workshops, as well as a masquerade ball on the Saturday night.

You’ll need to pay in full by the end of Sunday to receive the discount. Read more….

Spring Dinner & Dance Deadline

Our Spring Dinner & Dance takes place on Friday 5th May but the booking deadline is Friday 28th April.

There’ll be a red/white/blue theme in honour of the King’s Coronation and places cost £37.50pp. Read more….

School Closed Coronation Weekend

The school will be closed on Sunday 7th May to allow everyone to partake in whatever festivities communities may be hosting.

Sunday Workshop Changes

Due to declining numbers in our Sunday workshops we have made the decision to cancel Sunday Improver, Intermediate and Advanced workshops with immediate effect.

Sunday Sequence & Social workshops will continue for the moment.

For the next few weeks both Antony & Denise will open up additional private lesson availability whilst we review what will take place on Sundays.

Read more and let us know what you’d like us to replace them with….

Changes to Social Event Regularity

As we now host a wide variety of social events over the course of the year we are going to reduce the number of Friday night socials.

Instead of having a monthly Friday social we will only host them every two months, when we don’t have another event that month.

As such our next standard social will be Friday 30th June, with our Halloween social then on Friday 27th October.

Waltz & Jive Courses starting next month

Our next One Dance Courses start in May. There will be a Jive course starting from Wednesday 17th May, and a Waltz course from Monday 22nd May.

Courses cost £45pp for a 6 week course. The courses get extended in 6 week blocks and often run for 18 weeks in total. Read more….

What You May Have Missed

Hitched First Dance Choreography Award Winners

Hitched, the popular wedding booking portal, awarded us with an award for our Wedding Frist Dance Choreography this year!

The awards are voted for by actual wedding couples and we’re honoured that so many of our first dance couples from last year voted for us to win. Read more….

Glastonbury Dance Weekend

We had another great break down in Street near Glastonbury. This year we were teaching Quickstep and had a ‘Charleston’ theme to the Saturday night.

It’s always wonderful that so many of our students take the time to make the effort for these themes.

Remember our next dance break will be Bournemouth in October and you can save £15pp if you book and pay in full before the end of this month! Read more….

‘Silent’ Social for Comic Relief

Back in March we held a Ballroom and Latin American Silent Disco in aid of Comic Relief.

It was a great night and thank you to everyone who attended, or donated if they were unable to make it.

Overall we raised over £600 for Comic Relief, well in excess of our £250 target, and many students asked us when we were going to host the next one! Read more….

Good Friday Afternoon Tea

This year we decided to trial having our Spring afternoon tea on Good Friday, the idea being to allow you to pencil the date in every year.

It was a sell-out event and everyone had a great time.

Our next catered event is the Spring Dinner & Dance, and our next Afternoon Tea will be at Christmas (details soon).

A Tribute To Len

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UPDATE: WE HAVE MANAGED TO AGREE AN EXTENSION UNTIL 31st AUGUST FOR BOOKINGS!

Our dance breaks are often the highlights of the year for our students so we hope by October normality has sufficiently resumed!

The Hotel

In 2019 we moved our dance break to a new home, the Marsham Court Hotel, after we fell in love with the Plantation Suite:

What we loved about the Plantation Suite was the ability to have our entire weekend in our own private room. From breakfast in the morning through all our workshops, evening dinner and social dances, the suite is ours exclusively.

Marsham Court is also perfectly placed near the seafront with easy access to the beach and promenade.

What’s the plan for our 2021 Bournemouth Dance Weekend?

All our dance breaks are dinner, bed and breakfast and include two nights of social dancing and two mornings of workshops.

A rough breakdown of the weekend is as follows:

• Friday
  • 7pm – Welcome drinks reception
  • 7.30pm – Dinner
  • 9pm – Music for Dancing
• Saturday
  • 10.30am – Foxtrot Workshop
  • 11.30am – Samba Workshop
  • 4.15pm – Special One-Off Afternoon Workshop (supplement)
  • 6.30pm – Dinner
  • 8.30pm – Music for Dancing
• Sunday
  • 10.30am – Recap workshop

Our dance breaks always feature a theme to the Saturday night, and this year the theme is ‘Brazil‘. Whilst it’s not compulsory to dress up for the occasion it’s always more fun if you do. Our themes can be interpretated in whatever way you like.

2021 Bournemouth Dance Weekend Booking Details

The break starts from £215 per person. We have a small number of single rooms without supplement, as well as upgrades for balcony and sea view rooms.

Options:

• Singles
  • £215 first 4 bookings no supplement (1 room remaining!)
  • £245 including supplements
• Sharing
  • £215 per person standard room
  • £230 per person balcony room
  • £235 per person sea view and balcony room

You can save £15 per person if you book and pay in full before the end of April 2021. If you wish to pay in installments then a £50pp deposit is required by 30th June, with the balance payable by 31st August.

The below booking search will allow you to book for just yourself if you are paying in full. If you want to reserve a space for someone else, or pay in installments, you’ll need to use the Full Booking System or contact us.

We look forward to welcoming you on our 2021 Bournemouth Dance Weekend. There is obviously a massive ‘Covid’ shaped question mark over the break. Should the break need to be cancelled you will be offered the option to transfer to next year, or receive a refund.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

As well as our regular dance classes, private lessons and workshops we also host a variety of dance events and holidays each year. We missed our 2020 Bournemouth, and 2021 Glastonbury dance weekends so we hope the vaccination programme allows our events to resume.

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
Youtube: youtube.com/learndance
Facebook: facebook.com/learndance
Instagram: instagram.com/learndance
Twitter: twitter.com/learndance

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Where possible we always try to re-sell any spaces to minimise the charges to the students. If you missed out before the booking deadline, now is your chance to grab a great deal.

When And Where Is The Bournemeouth Dance Weekend?

Our Bournemouth Dance Weekend takes place from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October 2019. The dances being covered this year are Tango & Cha Cha.

Our Bournemouth Dance Weekend is always popular. This year we have moved to a bigger hotel – the Marsham Court Hotel – with their wonderful Solent Suite. The hotel is only minutes away from the beach and comes highly recommended by a number of students.

How Much Is The Bournemouth Dance Weekend?

The weekend costs (before discount) £200pp, or £230 for solo occupancy, and we do have a couple of sea view upgrades potentially available. The break cost includes dinner, bed and breakfast along with a welcome drinks reception on the Friday night.

We are offering 20% off any booking that fills these slots before our 4th September final numbers deadline. Just enter BourneLate2019 at checkout to get your discount (full payment required on booking).

What’s This Year’s Theme?

There is always a theme to our dance weekends and this year’s theme is Country & Western. We will have a special line dance workshop on the Saturday afternoon, available for a supplement. It’s always great to see how much effort people make for the themes and you can see photos from some prior Bournemouth Dance Weekends below.

If you wish to book onto the Ballroom Dance Weekend break please click here. Don’t forget to enter BourneLate2019 to get your late cancellation discount.

We hope you can join us.

Don’t forget to check out our other upcoming dance breaks.

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