Vote with your (dancing) feet … Sunday at USA Dance!
Sunday’s dance (Dec. 3) is also our general membership meeting, where we will be electing new members to our chapter’s board of directors. The dance is 3 – 5 p.m.
Come early for an American rumba lesson at 2:15 p.m., taught by Charity Tafoya. Perry Pedersen will DJ.
We’re at the Albuquerque Square Dance Club, 4915 Hawkins St. NE. Admission is $5 for USA Dance members and $10 for others.
Board elections. Four candidates are running for open seats on the board of directors. They are, in alphabetical order:
• Laurel Fanninghas been dancing since 1998, and competing with her husband, Tom, as an amateur couple since 2003 with USABDA, the predecessor to USA Dance. They’ve competed at USABDA/USA Dance regional competitions and at Nationals. Both Laurel and Tom served on the board of the Denver USABDA chapter in the 2000s. They started dancing again in 2022 after a long hiatus raising a family. Laurel is a project manager for construction development.
• Tom Fanning, a materials engineer, started dancing in 1996. (See Laurel’s bio above for more information about Tom’s dance background.)
• Ruth Horowitz has been dancing for 12 years and was a show jumping judge for 5 years.
• Perry Pedersen, one of our DJs, has been dancing socially since he was 25. He has competed in amateur and pro-am events and once served as a dance host aboard the Queen Mary. Perry also served as a board member and teacher for “Dancing Classrooms.“ He’s managed professional work teams of up to 200 employees, and co-founded and taught at a Polish business college.
Remaining on the board for another year are John Cilke, Annie Irizari, Rosie Harper, and Debra Williams. See you on the dance floor!