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In Memoriam
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Sandy Laughlin
We host the following links to honor the memory of Sandy, whom we lost to cancer.
saves lives and creates a world with less cancer and more birthdays by helping people stay well, get well, find cures, and fight back.
The American Childhood Cancer Organization
provides information and support for children and adolescents with cancer and their families, grassroots leadership through advocacy and awareness, and supports research leading to a cure for all children diagnosed with this life-threatening disease.
The Mesothelioma Support Group
works to guide patients stricken with mesothelioma through every step of the diagnostic and treatment process. This includes providing a thorough, comprehensive complimentary guide about mesothelioma.
Related Links
Web Sites related to dance and the dance community.
We include links to dance related web sites or to sites of interest because of other news or for upcoming or recent events. The links we host here are owned and operated independently of our site. We welcome suggestions for links to include on this page.
More Step Sheets
Sites with write-ups for line and partner dances. For dances we've taught, visit Step Sheets.
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- The Copper Knob Stepsheets web site is a great source for step sheets and dance information. You can often listen to the song for and/or watch a video of the dance.
- The Kickit Archive has over 68,000 dances, 12,000 choreographers, 36,000 songs, and also includes videos and dance venues.
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Events
The events listed here have sponsored a web site. For more events, visit Dance Events.
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- The Ft. Wayne Dance For All is one of the best dance events in the country. Join us the first weekend in March at the beautiful Grand Wayne Center in historical Fort Wayne, IN. Your VIP pass allows you access to at least 6 workshops per hour, 3 huge ballrooms for nightly dance parties, and the traditional Saturday night show! Walk-ins are welcome!
- The Indy Dance Explosion happens in Indianapolis! You don't want to miss the many hours of workshops, the competition and the late night dance parties. This event features four rooms with a mix of Country, Line Dance and Swing with some of the top instructors in their fields.
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Organizations
These organizations promote dancing in its various forms.
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The Dancing For The Dream Corporation is a
Nonprofit Senior Health Charity established for the
purpose of promoting health physically & emotionally for an aging population.
They use line dance as their chosen form of exercise.
Founders are Scooter Lee and Jo Thompson.
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- Fort Wayne DanceSport promote and encourage all levels of lessons and dancing, without bias, for the communities at large. They sponsor a ballroom style dance each month in the Walb Memorial Ballroom on the IPFW Campus. Membership includes their monthly newsletter. Home of the First Special Olympics Ballroom Dance Competition in the USA.
- The United Country Western Dance Council (UCWDC) is an international organization which promotes country western dance by producing festivals and competitions in 20 countries. They host the annual World Championships of Country Dance for couples and line dancers and they advocate country dancing as a social activity for people of all ages and abilities.
- The Fort Wayne Westies is a West Coast Swing club in Fort Wayne, Indiana that aims to promote authentic West Coast Swing as it's taught, danced, and competed around the world. The Fort Wayne Westies provides opportunities to learn, practice, and dance West Coast Swing on a regular basis while meeting new people and making friends.
- The World Swing Dance Council, organized in 1993, is a service organization designed to further communication and to provide informational services and record keeping for those in the Swing Dance Community.
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Instructors
These instructors offer lessons locally or travel and teach at various dance events.
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- Frank Trace is one of the leading Line Dance Instructors in the Canton & Massillon area of Ohio. He choreographs and his dances have won several awards. He also hosts the Ohio Summer Dance Classic.
- 'The' Jamie Marshall dances throughout the USA and other countries promoting, instructing, choreographing and judging dance events. Jamie won six UCWDC Advance Classic and Showcase titles, including being the first Female Super Star Champion.
- John H. Robinson is an award-winning line dance instructor and choreographer. He travels the world teaching, performing, judging competitions, and coaching individual dancers as well as teams. In February 2008, John was inducted into the Linedancer Magazine Crystal Boot Awards Hall of Fame.
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Magazines
Publications which offer infomation about dance.
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- Linedancer Magazine all the way from the UK!
- World Line Dance Newsletter is a daily email with a compilation of line dance information from all over the world.
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Venues
Places to dance (that have web sites).
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8 Seconds Saloon in Indy offers dance lessons on one of the largest dance floors in the Midwest,
teaching the latest steps and line dance crazes!
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Indiana Roof Ballroom
has stunning architecture which replicates a quaint courtyard of a European village.
The facility includes
an 8,700 square foot ballroom encircled by a 2,500 square foot promenade area.
The Ballroom design consists of ornate arches leading onto the ballroom floor,
which is constructed of one-inch maple strips,
spiraling out from the center to the edge.
Above is a domed night sky, complete with twinkling stars and moon.
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- Lighted Gardens is a reception hall located in Ossian, IN with a wonderful dance floor. Their banquet facility offers meeting and event space for groups from 35-435.