Christmas Breakup

How scary is it that we have reached the end of the year so quickly....

Our Christmas Breakup will be held on Saturday 6th December 2014. Eveyone is welcome and you are most welcome to bring family and friends with you.

Due to the success of last years breakup we are again holding a non dancing breakup at the beach.

Meet us at the Main Beach Emu Park (near the Surf Life Saving Club) at 9.30am.

We will be starting a special game/surprise at 10am sharp so we need everyone to arrive on time as we don't want anyone to miss out.

Please bring a small cold plate to share for lunch (Salad/Meat) we will be providing a ham platter, water and softdrink.

Flyer for the event will be out this week but if you have any questions please contact Michael or Rachelle.

No Dancing this weekend!

There will be no dancing lessons this Friday 21st November or Saturday 22nd November as we will be away attending the Society Christmas Dance held in Bundaberg.

Dancing will resume on Monday 24th November.

We appologise for any inconvenience.

October Bugle

October Bugle has been published

Click HERE to access the document

No dancing Friday night

No dancing this Friday night 17th October  as Michael and I will be away on square dancing business. Classes will resume as normal after that. Thanks for your patience.

Enjoy the week off!

There will be no dancing on the following dates.

Friday 26th September

Saturday 27th September

Monday 29th September

We will be away enjoying the State Convention at Cleveland Brisbane, so enjoy your time off and don't forget we will be back next weekend with the

 Rockhampton & District Square Dance Inc. 10th Anniversary Dance. 

Feature Callers Kevin Kelly and Matthew Mills will be calling at very great expense so please come along and join in the fun.

Come dressed in your Rock gear - Friday & Saturday Nights. (or just Saturday Night if you wish)

*** UPDATE***

Lunch (Subway) will be provided for a small donation on Saturday as 

Michael is working us hard with this program! 

We may also extend the finish time for Advanced - This is to be advised on the day.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

September Bugle has been published

click here to view

Happy Reading!

Family Fun Night - Only a Few Days to Go! EEEK!!! So Excited!!

Rocky Twirlers presents

Family Fun Night - Saturday 30th August 2014

We will be starting the night with a Pot Luck Dinner from 5.30pm 

(you must RSVP)

The fun will kick off at 7pm and we would love to have you and your whole family attend!

The night is FREE!!!!

Please help us spread the word and join us for a night to remember!

August Society Bugle

Click here to read the August Bugle

Appologies for the lateness of this copy.

What a great Birthday Dance!

We celebrated our 17th birthday over the weekend with Matthew Mills and Alan Evans. A wonderful weekend was had by all! U

July Bugle is here!

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Rockhampton & District Square Dance Inc 10th Anniversary Dance!

Join Rockhampton & District Square Dance Centre 10th Anniversary Dance!

With feature callers Kevin Kelly & Matthew Mills.

Please note we are having Saturday night as an adults only night, so we can let our hair down and have a good laugh. Children from 0 to 3 and 18 years or older will be accepted.
Should you have any questions regarding this please contact Michael or Rachelle.

Click HERE to see the flyer in PDF.

June Bugle!

The Bugle is published Monthly by the Queensland Square Dance Society.

To see what's on around the state and for important information...

Click here to read the JUNE BUGLE!

May Bugle

Click here to read the exciting May Bugle!

Changes to dates

As some of you are aware recently we have had to change our dates for our birthday dance and for the Incorporations Anniversary Dance - the new dates are as follows:

Rocky Twirlers Square Dance Club's 17th Birthday Dance 4th, 5th & 6th July 2014 with Guest Callers Alan Evans and Matthew Mills

Rockhampton & District Square Dance Inc Aniversary Dance 3rd, 4th & 5th October 2014 with Guest Callers Kevin Kelly and Matthew Mills - Theme will be "Rocktober"

Flyers will be out shortly so keep an eye out.

Michael and I appologise for any inconvenience caused, these date changes were unavoidable.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please checkout our calendar page for more updates!

April Bugle is here!

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Happy St Patricks Day

Our signs are up!

Keep a look out for our signs let us know if you've seen them on our Facebook page. 

www.facebook.com.au/rockytwirlers

Congratulations Michael and Rachelle

Tonight Michael and Rachelle celebrate 25 years of dancing together. Aswell as their 7 year anniversary. Congratulations and here's to many more. 

Clogging Classes Starting Now!

Please join us each Saturday from 9am - 10am for clogging classes, it is such a great activity. We would love to see you there.

Click HERE for a flyer

Below is some information we think you might find interesting.

What is clogging?

The best way to describe clogging is a cross between Tap Dancing, Line Dancing and "River Dance". Cloggers wear soft leather shoes with noisy taps on them, usually dance in lines and the rhythms generated often sound like those of Irish Dance. Unlike Irish, clogging is done with a relaxed upper body. Individual styling is encouraged so all ages and all fitness levels can dance together.

Some cloggers dance only at their weekly clubs. Many take advantage of social events and clogging weekends away, and there are those that do public performances & demos.

Clogging is one of the two main folk dance forms that started early in the development of the USA as the new European settlers mixed their various traditions. There are now many thousands of clogging clubs in USA and around the world. In Australia Clogging is fairly new, but there are already over 80 clubs.

What has clogging got for you?       

Clogging gives you the opportunity to get out and enjoy a great social activity and get fit at the same time. You legs will tone up very quickly. Clogging improves flexibility, coordination, endurance and strength. It increases lung capacity, relieves stress, and it's aerobic and burns fat.

Clogging is usually danced in lines because there is a better social group feeling when you can see that your new friends are dancing the same routines as you. Clogging is never the less a singles dance so you do not need a partner.

In Australia the instructors teach both the steps and the routines, but you do not need to remember the routines. At club and at social weekends, the instructors cue or call all routines every time they are danced. This means once you know the steps at a given level, you can quickly join in with routines you have never seen.

You will find you dance many and varied routines to pretty much all types of music, although country and top 100 current tunes are the most popular. (For some demonstrations the participants do rehearse and learn the routines)

Taps are a double jingle tap imported from the USA, and they are loud. The sound of all the taps beating to the music, gets everybody tapping to the rhythms. In clogging the heel tap is used to give a strong regular beat during most steps.

At club you are encouraged to develop your own personal style. You are not meant to look exactly the same as the person next to you, we don't try to be a chorus line. Some people are very flamboyant and energetic, others are more sedate. Experienced dancers often add extra tap beats in between the normal steps. When you need a quiet night, steps can be done with your feet barely lifting off the floor. When you want to let off steam you can put in more energy and make a lot more noise.

Like other worthwhile sporting activities, to progress quickly you may need to practice more than once a week at class. The good news is you can practice anywhere - In a lift, pushing a shopping trolley, sitting at a desk, in the kitchen etc.

 More about clogging.

Both Tap Dancing and Country and Western Line Dancing developed out of Clogging. Clogging continues to evolve from its roots 200 years ago.

	When the first European immigrants moved into the mountainous areas of the Eastern coastline of the USA (The Appalachian and Smoky Mountain areas) they began to share their cultures and dances with each other. Clogging is a blend of a number of different folk dance styles that were brought to the USA with these immigrants in the 1700,s. The strongest influences on the development of clogging were from the Irish, German, English, Dutch and French. However, later African American and Canadian Step dancing added to the percussive down beat typical of clogging.
	Clogging started to the foot tapping beat of the traditional folk music of the mountains, which transformed itself into a new style of music called Bluegrass, played on banjos, guitars, fiddles etc. Clogging continues to evolve. About the time of the second world war, the more modern style of clogging started to develop, and about that time tap dancing developed. More recently cloggers added special double taps to their shoes, which emphasise the regular rhythmic sounds characteristic of the modern dance form. Cloggers dance to all kinds of music, including rock, pop, oldies, rap, bluegrass, country and gospel, in fact any music that has a good (and often fast) dance beat.
	Clogging has become so popular that it has spread throughout the USA as well as Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. You may have even noticed a clogging segment in the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Atlanta in 1996. Even though clogging continues to evolve, the reasons for doing it will stay the same; for people of all ages to get together with other people and have a great, fun, time dancing to wonderful music.
	Clogging started in Australia in 1984/5. There was Keith Lethbridge then Gina Zaragoza in (WA), then Edith Sandy in Gympie (QLD), and Pauline Elliott in Adelaide (SA). The first club in NSW was the Hillbillies Cloggers, started in April 1988 in Sydney, and run continuously since then, by Vickie Dean

Information retrieved from http://www.easy.com.au/vickie/why_clog.htm

February Bugle has been published!

Please click HERE for all the exciting news.

Clogging Classes!

New Clogging Classes will be starting 8th February 2014. From 9am - 10am at the Rockhampton Square Dance Centre.

Please wear comfortable closed in shoes come along to find out what its all about.

More information will be posted shortly.

Hope to see you there

Welcome Back!

Hope Everyone enjoyed their holidays!

Some exciting stuff happening this year, we will be working on building our club and doing alot of focus sessions to help refine your skills as a dancer.

We look forward to seeing you on the dance floor!

Only 3 Days to go!!!

New Interactive Calendars added to website

Hi All,

We have added a new interactive calendar to the calendar page and to the side bar, if you would like to see anything else added to this please let me know.

Cheers

Rachelle