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April Fool's Day - Clown Dance @ The Avalon Ballroom Monday, April 1rst, 2019, from 5:30 to 7pm --- OPEN CLASS & PRESENTATION --- NO FEE: free donation! (for everyone, regular students included) - Clown Dance Class is for adults but children are welcome - Come, smile, enjoy*  

Yves is a singer, musician, dancer and teacher,. This is his premier workshop in the United States. He will be teaching Breton Dances from France. Yves plays both accordian and clarinet and sings as well as dances.

Join these beautiful dancers for the evening. This is our 69th “Wild” ball—a long standing and wonderful tradition. The Mostly Strauss Orchestra (Denver Pop Orchestra) will play waltzes and polkas by Strauss, Shostakovich as well as classic 20th century dances by Mancini, Leroy Anderson and Duke Ellington. We’ll also kick it up with Polka.com. Attire is formal and semi-formal. Dance cards available. Ticket Prices: $30 through May 4, $35 thereafter, Students get $5 off Doors open at 7:30pm. Grand March…

Dancing to live music 8:00 to 11:00 PM. Dance music during intermissions by DJ Frank Vernon. Swing dance class 7:00 PM included. Suitable for all dancers. Always the best bands! Saturday 19 May 2019 The Colorado Swing Big Band This is a full-on, top-notch traditional big band which plays the classics as wells as more modern material. Based in Fort Collins, we bring them to The Avalon every year for their great sound and reliably danceable music. Colorado Swing features…

 LOCO TANGO EVENTS Spillover milonga and other fun events! Join us for great food, drink, music and dance reverie Dj: Fiona Foster BYOB, wild dinner

Richard Powers Dance Weekend: Celebrating the Centennial of the passing of the 1919 Prohibition Bill.  ADVANCE REGISTRATION ONLY!  Couple dance classes will be taught Fri eve. through Sun. mid-afternoon, with the Prohibition Ball Sat evening. Friday day will include tours of the MillerCoors and Celestial Seasonings plants. The optional Add-On package from Sun. eve. through Monday afternoon will be in the Colorado Springs area, and will include dinner at a brew pub, a silent film in a 1923 theater, and…

A festival featuring traditional dance demonstrations and music performances from many countries around the world, and the opportunity to get in on the dancing yourself! On Saturday and Sunday shop at the international marketplace where vendors sell their handmade wares from around the world. Location: On the Boulder Pearl Street Mall in front of the Courthouse, 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado Cost: All events are free and open to the public! Help us create Boulder's Best Street Dance!…

Dancing to live music 8:00 to 11:00 PM. Dance music during intermissions by DJ Frank Vernon. Swing dance class 7:00 PM included. Suitable for all dancers. Always the best bands! The Neil Bridge 7+ Ensemble Featuring Karen Lee Bridge The Neil Bridge Ensemble plays for our swing dance series every year. They are a seven-piece combo featuring Neil Bridge on piano, and Karen Lee Bridge vocalizing. Neil Bridge is a jazz piano player of local fame, composer, arranger, and band-leader.…

See you on Thursday, July 11th!

Don Elwood's Big Band This is a classic, full-on, all-instrumental Big Band with a great book. Led by Drummer, Don Elwood, they have played for us successfully each summer and we look forward to having them back again at the Avalon Ballroom. Please join us! Dancing to live music 8:00 to 11:00 PM. Dance music during intermissions by DJ Frank Vernon. Swing dance class 7:00 PM included. Suitable for all dancers. Always the best bands! Admission: $15 per person general;…

This active hands-on program for adults will provide participants with the opportunity to learn about positive consent, practice key boundary-setting and emotional safety skills, and then to apply this knowledge to help prevent and solve common problems and miscommunications that can arise in dance communities and other social groups. Together, we will learn and practice the following, using examples that are relevant for our participants: How to ensure positive consent with people we know Assertive advocacy communication skills How to…

Our special theme party this night will commemorate the first human landing on Earth’s Moon. Our “Lunar Landing Party”! We have asked the Johnson Space Center to send us meals-in-a-tube, but maybe all we will get is Tang – not sure yet. Fun prizes for the best costumes. No lesson this night; dancing starts right away at 7 PM. Zoom over and join us for a great party! Waltzing and Couples Dancing! Waltz, cross-step waltz, foxtrot, two-step, tango, one-step, hesitation,…

Bob Harris and his band are a favorite for swing dance at the Avalon, and man, can that guy sing! I like the way they are described on one web site: “Bob Harris is a professional singer whose recording and touring credits include Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, Steve Vai, Jock Bartley of Firefall, AXE, Edge of Forever (a group based in Italy), several Denver-based groups, and vocals on numerous studio projects. “Bob Harris & the Bringers of Swing” features Bob…

Saturdays, September 7, 14, 21      Swing Rueda: 3:45-5:00 PM            Lindy Hop Crash Course: 3:15-3:45 PM  Swing Rueda is an exciting variation of Lindy Hop where couples dancing in a circle exchange partners following called moves based on the Lindy Hop. Learn this fun community dance and join our Swing Rueda circle at the Avalon on Wednesday Waltz nights and 3rd Saturday Swing dances!        **Don't know the Lindy Hop?**  No problem! …

This is one of our classic local “little” Big Bands. Led by trumpeter Dave McLoughlin, this is the band that lead off our swing series in 2005. Always a treat. Jan McLoughlin contributes beautiful vocal work. The entire band is ultra-connected. They even party together! Do join us. A wonderful band and it will be a swell night. I look forward to seeing you there! +++++ Dancing to live music 8:00 to 11:00 PM. Dance music during intermissions by DJ…

Bulgarika is a group of five artists with comprehensive performing experience using traditional folk instruments. Extensive biographical history and music samples can be found at  http://balkandance.net/Bulgarika2019/ Cost $15.00 for BIFD members/$17.00 nonmembers      Students $7.00 with current student ID Cash only! Please bring a snack to share.

Halloween Costume Party and Dance Celebration! Please join us – in costume – for a fun dance party. No lessons this night. Dancing will start at 7 PM. Prizes for best costumes. Waltzing and Couples Dancing! Waltz, cross-step waltz, foxtrot, two-step, tango, one-step, hesitation, blues, etc. Special theme parties most fifth Wednesdays. Sign up for event notifications: avd@columbine.net.

Live music for folk dancing by SIX hot local bands specializing in tradJitional and contemporary music from Eastern Europe. Many of the dances are easy enough to learn on the spot. Not a dancer? Not a problem; the Avalon has plenty of room to sit and watch. The bands are: The Bitovniks, Barbelfish Balkan Band, Gora Gora Orkestar, Klezmerize, Planina - Songs of Eastern Europe and Sherefe. In Eastern Europe, live music and dancing are always accompanied by food . . . and…

"Vintage" ballroom dancing to great live music at the Sunday afternoon Ragtime-Era Tea Dances. Waltz, tango, foxtrot, one-step, blues, two-step, Charleston, early swing, maxixe and half-and-half are among the couple dances we enjoy at the "Tea Dances". Live music by the Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra with vocalist Susan Rogers, or Susan Rogers' Exuberant Quartet, and occasionally other great local bands. Sunday, 10 November 2019 The Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra The dance lesson and lovely light refreshments…