Ready to shake off those winter/false-spring blues? Mark your calendars for Friday 10th May as we bring to you our highly anticipated Spring Dinner & Dance event at Learn To Dance, located at Cherry Orchard Pavilion, Britwell Road, Burnham, SL1 8DL.

Evening Details:

• Date: Friday 10th May 2024
• Time: Doors open at 7:00 PM; dancing continues until 11:00 PM
• Location: Learn To Dance, Cherry Orchard Pavilion, Britwell Road, Burnham, SL1 8DL
• Ticket Price: £40 per person (includes a welcome drink; attendees to bring their own additional beverages)

A Taste of Spring – Our Delectable Dinner & Dance Menu:

• Welcome Drink on Arrival
• Main Course Options:
  • Chicken & Brie Kiev, served with Irish Cabbage, Parmentier Potatoes & Thyme Jus
  • Supreme of Salmon, accompanied by Candied Tarragon, Lemon and Potato Risotto with Baby Watercress
  • Potato Gnocchi with Miso Glazed Aubergine, Romanesco, Red Pepper, and Aromatic Tomato Sauce (Vegetarian)
• Dessert:
  • Poached Rhubarb Panna Cotta with Rhubarb Compote and Shortbread

Please note most special dietary requirements can be catered for, so please contact us if you have any questions.

Dance the Night Away!

After enjoying a sumptuous meal, take to the floor with a mix of the latest hits and timeless classics. Whether you’re a seasoned dancer or just looking to have some fun, this evening is perfect for everyone!

Tickets:

Tickets are limited, and bookings close 3rd May, so be sure to secure yours early to avoid disappointment. This event is the perfect opportunity to dress up, enjoy a fantastic meal, and dance the night away!

You can book our Dinner & Dance in Burnham using the option below. To reserve a space for another person visit our full booking system. Please choose your menu option when booking.

Why Attend our Spring Dinner & Dance in Burnham?

• Gourmet Dining: Enjoy a carefully curated menu that promises to delight your taste buds.
• Dancing: Experience an evening of lively dancing that will keep you on your feet all night.
• Socialise: Meet new people or enjoy the evening with friends and loved ones in a vibrant setting.

Don’t miss out on this spectacular evening of fun, food, and dancing. We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be one of the highlights of the spring season!

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Spring is in the air, and what better way to celebrate the season of renewal than with an elegant Afternoon Tea Dance on Good Friday? Taking place at our premier dance studio in Burnham on Friday 29th March 2024, from 1pm to 4pm, we’re inviting you to step out of the ordinary and into a world of grace, rhythm, and delightful delicacies, all for an exclusive price of £27.50 per person.

Experience the Elegance of Afternoon Tea

Our Afternoon Tea Dance is more than just an event; it’s an experience. As the doors open, you’ll be welcomed into a beautifully decorated setting that evokes the charm and sophistication of a bygone era. You’ll indulge in a full afternoon tea, featuring an exquisite selection of finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and jam, a variety of cakes, and, of course, tea! Our aim is to tantalize your taste buds and provide a feast for the senses.

Let the Dancing Begin

After you’ve savoured the last crumb of your afternoon tea, the real magic begins. The floor will open for dancing, inviting beginners and seasoned dancers alike to glide, twirl, and sway to the rhythm of the music. Whether you’re a fan of the waltz, tango, or cha-cha, our Afternoon Tea Dance offers a perfect opportunity to showcase your moves, learn new ones, and enjoy the company of fellow dance enthusiasts. It’s a celebration of dance, music, and the joy of spring!

Book Your Good Friday Afternoon Tea Dance Spot Today!

Spaces for our Afternoon Tea Dance are limited, and bookings close on Friday 22nd March. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this unique and memorable event. At just £27.50 per person, it’s an opportunity to indulge in the finer things in life without breaking the bank. Whether you’re looking for a delightful way to spend Good Friday, a unique date idea, or a fun outing with friends, our Afternoon Tea Dance ticks all the boxes.

If you want to reserve a space for another person please visit our full booking system.

Location and Timing for our Good Friday Afternoon Tea Dance

• Date: Good Friday, 29th March 2024
• Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
• Location: Our Dance Studio in Burnham
• Price: £27.50 per person

To secure your spot, please contact us as soon as possible. Remember, bookings close on Friday 22nd March, so don’t delay. We can’t wait to welcome you to our Afternoon Tea Dance, where the tea is sweet, the dances are lively, and the company is splendid. Swing into spring with us and make this Good Friday unforgettable!

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• What are we doing this week?
  • Adult Group: Waltz & Rumba
    • Beginner – Sun 7pm, Mon 8pm, Wed 12.30pm
    • Improver – Sun 8pm, Mon 9pm, Wed 1.30pm, Wed 8pm
    • Improver 2 – Wed 9pm
    • Intermediate – Thu 7pm (Int 1) Thu 8pm (Int 2)
    • Advanced – Thu 9pm
    • ‘Over 50s’ – Tue 1pm
  • RBWM ‘SMILE’ Over 50s Sequence & Social – Fri 2pm (at Braywick Leisure Centre)
  • FitSteps Dance Fitness:
    • Tue 6.45pm
    • Wed 10.30am
  • Kid’s Classes
    • Wed 4.15pm – Under 9s
    • Wed 5pm – 9-13s
    • Wed 6pm – Teens 13-16s
  • Workshops:
    • Sunday 1.30pm – Improver Samba
      
• News
  • Latest Instagram…Tarantula Taming!
  • Anniversary Party – 17 Years!!!
  • Spring Dinner & Dance – over 40% booked!
  • School Closed for the King’s Coronation weekend
  • Waltz & Jive Courses starting in May
  • Spring Exam Session
  • Change to Socials now with confirmed times
    
• Looking Further Ahead (within the next month)
  • Dance Workshops
  • Social Events

News and Notices

Latest Instagram…Tarantula Taming!

Whilst searching for things to do with the kids over the Easter Holidays, Antony found One World Animals doing an event in Amersham earlier today. The session offered an exotic animals ‘meet & greet’. Not only did we get to meet a variety of lizards, snakes, turtles and birds, but also this cute and cuddly little fellow…

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Anniversary Party – Celebrating 17 Years!

This year Learn To Dance will be celebrating 17 years since we first set up classes!

Come and join us at our annual party on Friday 28th April.

The evening runs from 7pm-11pm and costs £8 per person, including a welcome drink on arrival.

We’re already over 20% booked for the evening so don’t delay if you want to join us!

Read more and book now.

Spring Dinner & Dance now on sale

Tickets are now on sale for our Spring Dinner & Dance on Friday 5th May.

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

Our Dinner & Dance is already over 40% sold out so book now and join us on another sell-out event!

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 Socials

Our Friday socials will no longer take place on the last Friday of every month. Instead they will run every two months, so long as there isn’t a special event taking place that month.

Due to this change the pre-social workshop would only actually occur twice a year, and so we have made the decision to drop them and instead start those socials at 7.30pm.

Special events (Dinner & Dances, Parties etc.) will continue to start at 7pm. Our next Friday social event will be our Anniversary Party on Friday 28th April.

Upcoming

Dance Workshops

• Sun 16th April – Improver Samba
• Sun 23rd April – Intermediate Samba
• Sun 30th April – Bossa Nova 66 Sequence & Social

Social Events

• Every Monday (except Easter Monday) – Weekly Tea Dance
• Fri 28th April – Anniversary Social – celebrating 17 years of Learn To Dance!
• Fri 5th May – Spring Dinner & Dance

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Our Quickstep dance weekend break will take place at The Wessex Hotel near Glastonbury from 10th-12th March 2023. 

On this popular annual dance weekend we focus on a single dance in our workshops, including an optional technique class.

There will be a 2 hour Quickstep workshop on the Saturday morning of the dance weekend that starts with a simple sequence. We then build up so it gets progressively harder and students can stop if they feel they have reached their limit, and just practice what they’ve learnt up to that point.

On the Sunday morning we have a recap workshop to help solidify what you have learnt. Sometimes we may even throw in some bonus moves too!

Both nights of the break will feature a mixture of Ballroom and Latin American dancing, along with select sequence dances.

The Quickstep dance weekend (2 nights) costs £185 per person and this includes dinner, bed and breakfast.

All prices are based on 2 sharing a room. There is a £50 single room supplement (although we have 3 rooms without supplement available) but we have extremely limited solo spaces.

The Quickstep dance weekend will include:

• check in from 3pm on the Friday
• 3 course meal each evening
• breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
• Quickstep dance workshop on the Saturday and Sunday mornings
• ‘Improve your Quickstep’ technique class Saturday afternoon (£5 supplement)
• ‘Charleston’ theme on the Saturday night

See previous Quickstep/Charleston themed outfits

On our Bournemouth dance weekend back in October 2013 we had a ‘Guys and Molls’ themed evening and you can see the outfits students wore below.

Book the Quickstep dance weekend break

The dance break costs £185 per person with a £50 per person non-refundable deposit required by 30^th November.  You can save £15 per person if you book and pay in full by 30^th November, balance payable 31^st January 2023.

Payments can be made via cash, cheque, or BACS to 30-97-73 23264368, or via the events section of our website.

If you want to book a place for more than one person on the Quickstep dance weekend you will need to use the Full Booking System.

Alternatively you can reserve a space for yourself using the booking option below:

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VIRTUAL DANCE BREAK UPDATE 02/02/2021: Tests have been very well received and so the details below have been updated to reflect the changes. Due to the change in software we have extended the promo code deadline to 13th February. We have also added a Solo Dancer’s workshop.

VIRTUAL DANCE BREAK UPDATE 30/01/2021: We are currently testing a new video social software that will hopefully make interactions more organic than just using Zoom. More details to follow once initial testing has been completed.

We can’t meet in person so we’ve decided to host a VIRTUAL Dance Break this March instead. This will be in place of our annual Glastonbury dance break, which would have been focusing on Ballroom Jive this year.

Now we know what you’re thinking, how is that going to work?!  

Our idea for the virtual weekend is to follow as closely to a normal dance break format as we can (minor revisions/additions may occur as we develop this).

There’ll be elements where we will all be in the same virtual room but also the opportunity to ‘sit’ with people to catch up with other students.

We’ll have fun group activities and workshops and we’re even debating the possibility of a delivered menu!

Schedule for the Weekend

The plan for our virtual dance break is:  

• Friday 12th March (evening)
  • 8pm Welcome Drinks ‘Reception’
    • a virtual ‘Wessex Hotel’ ballroom that you can move around and chat to other people as you approach them
    • a selection of couches and tables that you can sit at to carry out uninterrupted conversations
    • a ‘bar’ area that you can chat to anyone else at or behind the ‘bar’
    • group Quiz Night (with prizes)
• Saturday 13th March  
  • 10am Partner Jive Workshop
  • 11am Solo Jive Workshop
  • 8pm Evening Social with a 50s dress-up theme (optional)
    • A special area of the dance floor with music playlists that you can ‘step’ onto
• Sunday 14th March
  • 9am Morning recap Jive dance workshop

There will also be the option of private Zoom dance classes over the virtual dance break weekend too.

How Much Does the Virtual Dance Break Cost?

For the final few places on our dance break we are offering the special price of £70 per screen.

You can book directly on our website or contact us for more information.

If you have any questions, comments or feedback on this idea let us know. We’re happy to revise the plan to best suit what our students would like to take part in.

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Hearing your feedback gave us an idea…what if we could provide space to practice, whilst still observing government guidelines?

How then can we practice Ballroom & Latin American dancing in the current pandemic?

Our plan is to provide a whole day of pre-bookable 1 hour practice slots at our dance studio in Burnham. We have scheduled this in for Friday 14th August.

There will be a maximum of 4 couples permitted in each slot. We will allow 30 minutes for sanitising the studio in between sessions.

Students will be asked to respect social distancing guidelines. Hopefully however there should be enough space to keep away from each other!

We will play a selection of Ballroom and Latin American dance music so that you can practice your repertoire.

You can book for more than one session, but will be asked to leave the studio during the sanitisation break.

That sounds amazing, how can I book?

There are a number of ways to book onto the Ballroom & Latin American practice sessions. You can call or email us, or book online.

Please note we are unable to accept walk-ins on the door. You can call us on the day to confirm if we have slots available. However we do expect this to be a popular event so pre-booking early is advised.

The sessions will cost £15 per couple.

Will you run these Ballroom & Latin American practice days regularly?

If they prove popular we may consider making them a regular occurrence. Possibly one Friday a month but midway through the month with our regular social on the usual last Friday of the month.

Obviously our regular socials cannot currently run under government guidelines. But we hope the pandemic situation will improve to the point they can be restarted.

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WHEN: FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER

WHERE: BURNHAM PARK HALL

TIME: 8.30PM-11PM
(SAMBA Workshops from 7.30pm)

PRICE: £6pp
(£5 if you BOOK ONLINE in advance)

Our regular LearnToDance social nights take place at Burnham Park Hall, Windsor Lane, Burnham, SL1 7HR. They’re a great opportunity to come along and practice the steps you’ve been learning, as well as meet other dancers and make friends.

The evening features a variety of Ballroom and Latin American dances and also has Samba Workshops (two levels – ‘Beginner’ and ‘Improver II + Above’) beforehand at 7.30pm.

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WHEN: FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER

WHERE: BURNHAM PARK HALL

TIME: 8.30PM-11PM
(Foxtrot Workshops from 7.30pm)

PRICE: £6pp
(£5 if you BOOK ONLINE in advance)

Our regular LearnToDance social nights take place at Burnham Park Hall, Windsor Lane, Burnham, SL1 7HR. They’re a great opportunity to come along and practice the steps you’ve been learning, as well as meet other dancers and make friends.

The evening features a variety of Ballroom and Latin American dances and also has Foxtrot Workshops (two levels – ‘Beginner’ and ‘Improver II + Above’) beforehand at 7.30pm.

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One of us is ‘Good Cop’…I wonder who…

WHEN: FRIDAY 31st OCTOBER

WHERE: BURNHAM PARK HALL

TIME: 8.30PM-11PM
(Rumba Workshops from 7.30pm)

PRICE: £6pp
(£5 if you BOOK ONLINE in advance)

It’s that time of year again, when Antony just can’t wait for an excuse to dress up, and Emma just goes along for the ride, except this year we get to dress up a little munchkin too!

Our Halloween Dance Social will take place on Friday 31st October at Burnham Park Hall, Windsor Lane, Burnham, SL1 7HR.

Costumes are highly recommended (and appreciated) but are not compulsory.

The evening features a variety of Ballroom and Latin American dances and also has a Beginner Rumba Workshop beforehand at 7.30pm.

You can see some pictures of last year’s Halloween Social on our website

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