(MIT Salsa Club) Lessons Begin NEXT WEEK, Next Salsa SOCIAL News, and Mambos is Back and Fatter!

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1. MIT Salsa Club's Workshop Series Begins this Coming Monday, January 5th!

MIT Salsa is back next week!  Well...MIT "Merengue" is back next week.  We begin our annual workshop series Monday night with a class that brings both beginner and advanced beginner dancers together in one room.  MIT Salsa's Merengue Challenge is scheduled for Monday, January 5th!  Read below for more details.

* Held in Morss Hall, Walker Memorial Building, 7pm - 8:30pm.

* Monday, January 5: MIT Salsa Club's Merengue Challenge!

Join Chris and Stephanie as they take merengue and mix in some MIT-style engineering.  They'll start with the basics and then they'll take you on a journey where you'll discover how far you can contort your bodies and stretch your minds. In other words: You'll all look like pretzels by the end of the lesson. 

For dancers of ALL levels.

2.) Mambos Returns this Friday with New Lessons and More!

***Click the link below to see the colorful web version of "Mambos Mail"--with graphics, Song of the the Week, and Guest List Trivia: 
http://www.ymlp.com/msg.php?id=anrcpkxsihb

Have you missed us?  Feels like a whole year has passed (or will pass) since we last danced.  Mambos is back this Friday with special lessons and an old year behind its back!  And while the Mambos team has been celebrating the holidays and getting fatter, we've come up with a bunch of new amenities that we'll begin offering Mambos clubbers in the new year, including free cds every week and a new "Mambotique" store at Mambos where we'll be selling (at cost, no profit) things like hand towels, ear plugs (inspired by DJ Ricardo), shoe powder, scrapers, and more for your salsa dancing pleasure.  Some of these things will be free with your Mambos Card.  More details in next week's Mambos Mail...    

Lessons This Week:

On the first floor, MIT Salsa will be teaching an intro to salsa AND merengue dancing this week.  These lessons are always fun for beginners and you'll learn enough in one hour to keep you dancing all night long! No partner or experience necessary.  **Please try to arrive early for the beginners lessons to guarantee yourself a good spot in the circle.  The lessons are filling up in the first half hour.  

Lesson is FREE with admission.
1st floor, 9:30 to 10:30.

On the second floor, Mambos is pleased to offer a special lesson this Friday to celebrate the new year! Rumba y Timbal Dance Co. will be in the house teaching advanced beginner bachata dancing for Mambos' dancers. RyT Director Roberto Figueroa will be sharing some of his slick bachata skills with Mambos lesson-takers on Mambos' second floor. Students should have some general familiarity with bachata.

READ Mambos Mail for more information:
http://www.ymlp.com/msg.php?id=anrcpkxsihb

* All Ages!
* DJ el Turco
* $10 for members, $15 for guests
* Only 2 blocks from the Arlington T station. 
* Right off Route 90 and Route 93

http://www.mambosentertainment.com

3. MIT Salsa Club's Winter Gala is Saturday, January 17th!

Our last big social before the annual party (in late May) is only about 3 weeks away.  MIT Salsa Club's Winter Gala is Saturday, January 17th.  We're looking for volunteers for the event early, so if you can volunteer for a half hour at the Gala, please email Chris at vegas76 at yahoo.com.

Details of the event:

MITSC's Winter Gala! Dress to impress, but also...dress to sweat. The Winter Gala is a great opportunity to introduce yourself and friends to salsa dancing. Beginner and advanced beginner salsa lessons will be taught before the floor opens to social dancing. All proceeds will go towards purchasing new sound equipment for MITSC's weekly lessons and events.

January 17th in La Sala de Puerto Rico, 2nd floor of MIT's Stratton Student Center. 

(This is MIT Salsa's last party before the big Annual Social in late May.) 

Event Details:
Only $5 Admission!
All Beverages, $1 
Open to the General Public
All Ages
Lessons 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Dancing 9:30pm - 1am
In MIT's Stratton Student Center, 2nd floor
77 Mass Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Click here for Directions:
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?mapterms=student+center

5.) Private Lesson Information.

Private lessons are a fun and affordable way to learn salsa dancing  quickly. The private lesson setting allows each dancer the opportunity to address his or her own needs directly to a teacher. 

Private lessons are available for solo dancers, for couples and for groups up to 5--all for the same price. 

Currently taught at MIT!
Lessons are currently available Mondays thru Thursdays.  No Fridays.  Lessons are available on Saturdays and Sundays for higher rates.  
New Rates:
Weekdays: $40 per hour
Weekends: $60 per hour

Email Chris at vegas76 at yahoo.com for more details.  

6.) Register with Facebook.

Please register.    

Our Facebook club allows you to participate in many of our
lesson activities, such as voting for lessons, meeting
dance partners, being invited to our events, etc.  

Even if you don't want to create a profile with a picture
or tell the world anything about yourself, create an
account and join our Facebook club; you'll still be able to
participate in all of the club's online activities.
   
Follow this link:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2209203537

If you are already registered with Facebook, then log in
and click the "Groups" link in the left side of your
browser.  Then type "MIT Salsa Club" into the search box
and click "Join" when you are on our club page.  You'll be
added to the club.

If you are not registered with Facebook, it will take you
less then 5 minutes to set up an account.  And it's free!
Just follow the link above, click "Register" and follow the
instructions listed above.