A new form of dancing is coming to the Comox Valley – international ballroom.
Paykart Ballroom Dance offers two eight-week sessions of international style ballroom dance classes this winter. The first session kicks off on Jan. 11 and will focus on waltz, tango, jive (swing), samba and merengue while the second session starting March 7 includes foxtrot, quickstep, Viennese waltz, rumba and cha-cha. The classes will be held at Native Sons Hall (lower level). Instructors Zofia and Irek Paykart moved to Vancouver Island five years ago and started to teach in Campbell River and they think that now it is a good time to expand to Comox Valley.
They met on the dance floor during their study for a masters degree in education back in their home country Poland. They took part in many dance competitions won some, and 40 years later they are still dancing and having fun with it.
They would love to see ballroom dance to be one of the most popular form of recreation in North Vancouver Island. Looking for some form of exercise you can stick to? Ballroom dance is it!
Zofia and Irek recall that their teacher saying, “You can walk so you can dance." It seems that he was wrong, because people in wheelchairs dance too ... so everyone can dance.
As a Japanese proverb puts it: “We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well do it.”
Call Zofia at 250-923-7043 for more information or visit www.ballroomdanceincampbellriver.blogspot.com.