HOLIDAY BALL and USA DANCE: VOLUNTEERING

By Alexandra Y. Caluen

Many of our chapter members follow, and participate in, the array of classes, performances, examinations, and more coming out of Nadia’s Rhythm Room.  Nadia Eftedal herself will be teaching for the chapter’s December 4 Holiday Ball.

But Nadia is hosting a Holiday Ball of her own: the 2011 Holiday Ball Dance Camp, Competition, and New Year’s Eve Gala, at the Beverly Hills Hilton. www.holidayball.com

Nadia is bringing a new focus to the Dance Camp, working with top-flight instructors to offer workshops aimed at defining the dancer’s relationship to ballroom dancing and examining new ways to approach communication about dancing – whether the individual dancer’s internal dialogue, or communication between partners, or between student and coach.

This promises to be a very exciting, in-depth series of workshops which should be of great interest to the serious student (or teacher!) of ballroom dancing.

As with most ballroom events, volunteers are eagerly sought.  There are four separate volunteering opportunities:

  • Daytime “dance camp” lectures – partners/hosts; check arm bands
  • Weeknight “dinner and dancing”  – armband check
  • Competition – on-deck person; competitor check-in (two); Registrar (two)
  • NYE Ball – armband check

Incentives for volunteers:

  • Daytime dance camp partners/hosts: Commit six hours in order to receive one ticket for weeknight dinner-and-dancing ticket.  Can split hours over multiple days.  Partners/hosts also receive free admission to the workshop(s) they attend.
  • Weeknight armband check for dinner to receive: free admission to weeknight dancing
  • Daytime “dance camp” armband check to receive: free admission to weeknight dancing
  • Competition on-deck volunteer to receive: free dinner
  • Competition competitor check-in volunteer to receive: daytime volunteer – free admission to evening session; evening volunteer – free admission to daytime session

Specifications for volunteers (where applicable):

  • Lecture partner/hosts must be intermediate (or higher) International-style dancers or advanced (or higher) American-style dancers; women must be able to participate as leader or follower
  • Competition experience required for on-deck and check-in volunteers

Please review the Dance Camp schedule and other pages of the Holiday Ball website, and contact Nadia and the organizers at: info (at) holidayball.com if you have questions, or if you are interested in participating as a competitor or volunteer!

Visit Holiday Ball at www.o2cm.com to register for the Dance Camp, register for the competition, or buy tickets for the New Year’s Eve Gala.  You must be a member of NDCA in order to compete.  If you are not yet a member, sign up now at www.ndca.org.

And don’t forget to come to the USA Dance chapter’s Holiday Ball on December 4, where we will be raffling off a Holiday Ball workshop or New Year’s Eve pass worth up to $150!