Ballroom dancing has come alive again thanks to the TV reality show, Dancing With The Stars.
This evening I read an article in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia weekly newspaper that addressed this very topic. The writer shared with her audience how strongly the phenomenon has taken hold in Philly, Dave Clarke's city of young dancers.
This posting is an early announcement of a planned Ballroom Dance for the parish just before Ash Wednesday of 2008 ... it will be a Mardi Gras dance.
Through the assistance of the co-chair of our Pastoral Council there may be four or five weekends of "ballroom dance lessons" in Hess Auditorium. The teachers will be members of the GW University Ballroom Dance team!!!
The venue for the Dance is being searched at this time. Most likely it will be an embassy if at all possible. Now we cannot be as good as our parishioner, Joanne Doyle, the Senior of the Dance Floor in the DC area, but lessons will make the evening a marvelous outing.
So, let's get this dancing shoes out and the legs and lungs in shape. A more formal announcement will be made before the end of the summer.
