by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | May 20, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Matchmaker: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 14 Wouldn’t it be great if Rio Rhythmics could create a Speed-Date-a-Dance program? Imagine it! Studio two would be set with ten tables for two. The lights would be dimmed and the fairy...
by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | May 13, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Time: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 13 “How long have you been dancing?” I kept hearing the same question and I kept thinking, why is everyone asking me that? I decided it must be to do with age. There must be something about...
by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | May 6, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Hotness: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 12 Summer in Brisbane is hot and summer’s Latin dancers can get very sweaty. Rio Rhythmics’ Student Supporters get sweaty too EXCEPT that Rio Rhythmics puts us in black t-shirts with funky...
by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | Apr 28, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Bolero: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 11 Ah, Bolero. You played a trick on me, and it was magnificent… It was a large dance class. Some forty-or-so people. We’d changed partners (and changed partners, and changed partners...
by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | Apr 19, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Etiquette: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 10 All the little gallantries! Student Supporters in Rio Rhythmics’ Latin dance classes see chivalry everywhere. Instructor Chris treats followers he’s borrowed for demonstrations the way...
by Jada de Goey Teatini-Climaco | Apr 13, 2019 | Community, Everything Else, Feature Stories
Fergus: The excellent adventures of a student supporter (SSP) – Chapter 9 Let’s call him Fergus (not his real name.) Fergus is a man who leads very nicely. On the dance floor, he likes to wear an expression that says, “I’m thinking important things.” Sometimes,...
