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Submitted by Paul Roach on Sun, 2010-02-07 02:23. categories [ ]

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Submitted by Paul Roach on Sun, 2010-02-07 02:22. categories [ ]

Auditions Spring 2010

The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company would like to thank all the dancers who came for auditions - we had a phenomenal pool of talent to work with, and we are excited to announce that our program will be growing to accommodate the increased interest.

As a side note, some of our applicants did not print their names clearly on their applications. We have done our best to decipher their names in the following list, and apologize for any mistakes. If you are on the following list, please wait for an email from us. If you do not receive an email by Sunday 2/6, please follow up with us.

We are excited to offer the following people dancing positions in the Company this semester:

Campus Team:
Megan Swim
Tracy Layden
Marco Lobba
Brian Lee
Chris Fathauer

Beginners Team:
Jenny Lin
Christine Rhee
Karina Mendez
Alejandra Vega
Elizabeth Reiland
Bridgette Depay
Jenny Shaughnessy
Lilian de Greef
Mary Callahan
Irving Torres
Michael Morton
Sven Wijtmans
Samantha Ipser
Nicholas Card
Parth Padgaonkar
Chad Horsford
James Tran
Scott Rayerman

Thank you to everyone who auditioned! See you Monday night at 10pm in the Ballroom!

Submitted by Paul Roach on Fri, 2010-02-05 09:02. categories [ ]

Auditions 2009

The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company would like to thank all the dancers who came out last night for auditions - we had a phenomenal pool of talent to work with, and we are excited to announce that our program will be growing to accommodate the increased interest.

As a side note, some of our applicants did not print their names clearly on their applications. We have done our best to decipher their names in the following list, and apologize for any mistakes. If you are on the following list, please follow the directions here.


We are excited to offer the following people dancing positions in the Company this semester:

  • Adam Littlestone-Luria
  • Alexandra Mertz
  • Allison Card
  • Alyshia Silva
  • Alyssa Solis
  • Andrew Hong
  • Angela Moore
  • Arielle Snagg
  • Ashli Duncan
  • Bruke Tedla
  • Bryan Visser
  • Carlo Vaccari
  • Carola Parser
  • Chen Kweilin
  • Colleen Howe
  • Cooper Galvin
  • Craig Burkhart
  • Daniel Fielder
  • Dastin Zabke
  • David Pichard
  • Grant Ukropina
  • Iian Wurman
  • Isabel Juarez
  • Javid Riahi
  • Jeremy Hill-Edwards
  • Jonathan Schwartz
  • Jordan Ezzell
  • Jordan Librande
  • Josiah Gaskin
  • Julia Berryman
  • Karin Weston
  • Kathleen Bennett
  • Kelsey Frost
  • Kelsey Gross
  • Kevin Jaatinin
  • Leah Kahn
  • Liam Dorpler-Barry
  • Louis Galloredo
  • Marisa Finn
  • Max Kukartsev
  • Meya Annamalai
  • Nick Clute-Peining
  • Peyton "Bea" Scott
  • Priscilla Hsu
  • Rachel Chin
  • Rachel-Mikel ArceJaeger
  • Rianna Hidalgo
  • Robyn Schwartz
  • Sara Cronin
  • Sarah Surrey
  • Sarah Vitak
  • Stacy Wheeler
  • Susan Tan
  • Ted Zwang

If you have any questions about the auditions process or the results, please contact our Senior Presidents.

Thank you again to everyone who tried out - we look forward to seeing you on the dance floor!

Submitted by Paul Roach on Thu, 2009-09-17 11:34. categories [ ]

How To Begin the Acceptance of Your CCBDC Offer

After you have auditioned for and been accepted by the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company for a dancing position, you begin the process of accepting your offer by sending an email to webmaster@claremontballroom.org from your preferred email address with your name in the body of the email and the subject "New Account".

Please add @claremontballroom.org to the safelist for your email.

If you do not receive account information via email in the 4 days following your request, please follow up with another email to webmaster@claremontballroom.org with your original email attached.

Submitted by Paul Roach on Thu, 2009-09-17 10:59. categories [ ]

Dancing with the Claremont Stars

Dancing with the Claremont Stars 2008 FlierDancing with the Claremont Stars returns for its third annual appearance at the Claremont Colleges. It's open to faculty, staff, and administrators at the Claremont Colleges, and will be part of the upcoming Claremont Dance festival. Dancing with the Claremont Stars is a program put on by the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company that teaches faculty, staff, and administrators at the Claremont Colleges to dance and then lets them compete in a grand showcase at the end. More information is available in the participant information booklet [Word document]. Interested in participating, or know someone who you think should be competing? Download the application form [Word document] and submit it by Friday, October 17th, 2008 to be considered. Anyone eligible can do it, and it's lots of fun!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2008-10-22 19:56. categories [ ]

Salsa and Social Game Night

Join us This Friday for a special Salsa Game Night in Ducey Gym at CMC! After Salsa lessons from 8-9 (we offer three levels: First-Timer, Beginning, and Intermediate/Advanced), we’ll have open dancing and fun dance games until midnight. Come dance for a chance to win great prizes! This event is free, although concessions will be available for purchase. All proceeds go towards the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company’s community outreach by helping us put on events just like this one.

If you want to get warmed up before Salsa, come to Friday evening Social Dancing from 6-8PM in Ducey Gym at CMC.  At Social we dance Swing, Standard, Latin, Blues, and more.  Come practice what you're learning in class, learn new dances and new moves, meet other social dance enthusiasts, and request your favorite dances!

Visit our Facebook groups for more information: Danceaholics and Salsa Addicts.

Questions? E-mail salsaandsocial@claremontballroom.org.

Submitted by Ben Jencks on Mon, 2008-04-14 22:37. categories [ ]

Birthday Party

The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company is officially turning 10! With 6 national championships and multiple regional awards under its belt, the company has a long history of excellence, quality, and tons of fun. So, we're celebrating our birthday and you're invited!

April 11 from 8-12 in Pomona's Edmunds Ballroom. FREE and all invited. Birthday cake to be served.

There will be a surprise dance lesson from 8-9. (Shhh, we're not telling!) Stay for dancing from 8pm-midnight and performances by our Campus and Tour Teams at 10pm.

There will be music for salsa, swing, cha cha, hustle, polka, foxtrot, lindy, waltz, letkiss and much more.

Birthday attired encouraged (uhum...as long as it includes actual attire).



This 10th birthday celebration is our Concert 2008 kick-off event. We hope that you will attend our 10th Anniversary Concert, "Celebrating 10 Years of Dance" as it's sure to bring back many memories and a selection of amazing choreography. We've have Concert 2008 tickets for sale at this event.

For more information about Concert 2008 please visit our Facebook event

Submitted by Ben Jencks on Thu, 2008-04-10 23:50. categories [ ]

Orange Blossom Ball

CCBDC’s last competition of the semester will be the UCR competion this weekend, April 12. The Orange Blossom Ball opens at 9am and ends with team matches at 8:30pm. Many CCBDC members from both campus and tour team will perform this weekend, and both CCBDC’s Harry Potter Medley and CCBDC’s Made in the 80s Medley will compete in the Formation team event that begins at 7:30pm. If you have not had the opportunity to attend a competition, I would encourage you to catch a ride and come cheer our school on. For more information, contact david.carrington@claremontballroom.org. Good luck competitors.

Submitted by Kristie Finch on Sun, 2008-04-06 20:05. categories [ ]

Ice Cream Night

COME EAT ICE CREAM THURSDAY!!!!

The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company and
Bert And Rocky’s presents

CELEBRITY SCOOP NIGHT!
Thursday April 3, 2008
5:30pm to 8:30pm

Members of the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company (CCBDC) will be scooping your favorite homemade ice-cream all evening!

20% of proceeds and all tips will help support the CCBDC, your friendly college dance community.

Please join us for ice-cream and fun!

At Bert and Rocky’s in IN THE VILLAGE!
242 Yale Ave. Just south of Bank of America.

FMI: publicity@claremontballroom.org

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Submitted by Ben Jencks on Thu, 2008-04-03 00:26. categories [ ]