WELCOME
Welcome to the Social Dance Club at the University of Houston. Expanding the joy and fun of partnership dancing to the UH community while encouraging friendship and camaraderie between the members of the club constitutes the objective of our club. Standard, Latin, Smooth and Rhythm dances make up our main focus at this juncture. Our goal is to provide quality instruction and dancing opportunities to our members at affordable costs. There is nothing better than looking good while dancing. That is how we want you to be.
CLASSES
We have regular class meetings during spring, summer and fall semesters on every Sunday afternoon. Each meeting session includes three to five hours of dance instruction from which two hours are allotted to beginner level, one hour to intermediate level and two hours to advanced level. Although we emphasize on quality instruction, all of our classes are very informal and we encourage members to ask questions during the class. The club instructors are qualified to teach at the assigned levels. The teaching core consists of advanced dancers, highly qualified amateurs and professionals.
SOCIALS
Apart from the regular Sunday dance lessons, we have a social calendar that plans the social dancing we can host and specifies on a regular basis, the evening dances hosted by the major dance studios in Houston area. These are aimed at giving members not only a taste of the ballroom ambiance but also a certain degree of exposure to renowned ballroom dancers in Houston . Each of these events will involve an hour of instruction with a professional teacher followed by three hours of social dancing. We also organize carpools for regular group outings to night-clubs and dances hosted by local studios. These outings will expose you to a variety of dances and dancers around Houston - you will meet and socialize with dancers from other universities, dance studios and the ballroom community at large.
INSTRUCTORS
Pam & Drew Shefman  |
Pam and Drew have been teaching for UH since the Fall of 2000. They have been teaching ballroom classes for university students since around 1994. They both started to learn to dance when they were undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University (Pam started in 1991 and Drew in 1993). They had different partners early on and started dancing together around 1998. They have both danced competitively, for showcases, and socially for years. Most of all they love to teach at the university level. They enjoy the energy of the classes, the student's excitement about dancing, and mostly the fun atmosphere. For them, ballroom dancing is a lifelong hobby that you can always learn more about and can enjoy anywhere. They both have passed the International Ballroom certification exam from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance in October of 2003.
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James Scott Wallace |
Scott has been dancing for over 11 years. He has been affiliated with the Social Dance Club at UH for many of those years, as a member or volunteer instructor. He has extensive instruction in latin ballroom dance, with respected and champion coaches. He remembers many of the things they taught him, but when he forgets, he goes and looks it up in Walter Laird, and the right walk, chasse, posture or timing is usually there.
Scott is active as a volunteer, DJ, or organizer in many local competitons, dance shows, and programs. His daughter Emily has recently started dancing latin, training with the King family and performing with her partner on television and in shows.
Scott has been exceptionally lucky to partner some fantastic lady dancers. He's particularly thankful for his wonderful partner, now, the lovely Jenny Shen.
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