SynergyDance

Cville: Class July 30, August We're Off

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:51:13 -0500

Hope you can make it to a midsummer get-together and class with Charmaine Friday, July 30 at Studio 206 Downtown. Our summer hiatus will continue after that for August as well (Charmaine will be spending August once again looking after Roger, who has one more hip surgery “vacation” scheduled for Aug. 9).

After the August break, a new session of SynergyDance classes will start Sept. 10.

In the fall, the five-week series of classes at Studio 206 10 to 11:45 a.m. Fridays) will run Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1 and 8. The five-week session is $75.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, go to our Contact page or call us at 540.987.8696. Otherwise we’ll see you at 206 W. Market St., Charlottesville, for the one-time class July 30.

Four-Week Session Starting Up in Cville

Sat, 08 May 2010 20:08:03 -0500

We’re late getting word about about the current series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee. It was to be a six-week session starting two weeks back, but we couldn’t get the notice onto the web site until today. So next Friday, May 14, is now the first of a four-week session of classes at Studio 206 Downtown.

Unless you’ve already signed up for the six-week session, the cost is $60.

Classes are 10 to 11:45 a.m. Fridays on May 14, 21, 28 and June 4.

After that, Roger will be headed back to the hospital June 7 and then home for recovery after his hip replacement is revised, this time we hope for good, so there will be no class on June 11. Then Charmaine will start a new session of classes on June 18.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

Hope to see you in class!

D.C. Synergy Class Resume Monday, Jan. 4

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:33:23 -0500

Continuing Monday and Thursday morning SynergyDance classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom resume after our winter holiday break — starting on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, with Charmaine. Elyse will be back Thursday, Jan. 7.

Students of all levels are welcome to start the classes at any time. You can purchase a 10-class card for $200; the card is valid for three months. Single-class drop-ins are $24; for those trying out the classes who want to continue, the cost of the single class can be applied toward a 10-class card.

Classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, are 9:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday and Thursday. Monday’s classes are taught by Charmaine Lee; Thursdays are led by by Elyse Williams.

Cville Session Starts With Free Class Jan. 8

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:04:07 -0500

New year, new decade, and a new seven-week series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee that begins this coming Friday, Jan. 8 at Studio 206 Downtown with a complementary class!

If you have any questions, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

The seven-week session follows, and classes are 10 a.m. sharp to 11:45 a.m. Fridays on Jan 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. The seven-week session fee is $105; drop-ins, $17; seniors, $12.

Hope to see you in class!

Six-Week Session in Charlottesville

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:30 -0500

A new six-week series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee begins this Friday, Nov. 6 at Studio 206 Downtown! If you have any questions or want to sign up, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

Cville Session Starts Friday, Sept. 11

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:02:45 -0500

A short three-week session of SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 starts Sept. 11.

The series continues Sept. 18 and Sept. 25. Session fee is $45; drop-ins $17, seniors/students $10. Classes are 10 to 11:45 a.m.

The next Cville session will begin Oct. 2 and will run five weeks (Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30). Sign-up fee for that five-week October session is $75 — or you can sign up for both September and October sessions, eight weeks in all, for $110.

D.C. SynergyDance: Back on Sept. 10

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:01:46 -0500

Continuing Monday and Thursday morning SynergyDance classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom resume after our late-summer break — starting on Thursday, Sept. 10 with Elyse; Charmaine will be back Monday, Sept. 14.

Classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, are 9:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday and Thursday. Monday’s classes are taught by Charmaine Lee; Thursdays are led by by Elyse Williams.

Rappahannock Belly Dance: Sept. 15, 22, 29

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:01:09 -0500

A new three-week Synergy Belly Dance series with Charmaine Lee begins Sept. 15 at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and Rappahannock High School). Classes are Sept. 15, 22 and 29, Tuesday evenings from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. All three classes are open to all levels and are $33 for the session, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors.

D.C. SynergyDance July-August Schedule

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:16:25 -0500

SynergyDance classes will continue through August 17 at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, in D.C. this summer. All classes run 9:30 to 11 a.m.

The schedule is:

Thursday, July 30: Elyse Williams
Monday, Aug. 3: Charmaine Lee
Thursday, Aug. 6: Elyse Williams
Monday, Aug. 10: Lauren Stempler/Dana Verkouteren
Monday, Aug. 17: Charmaine Lee

We’ll be closed for the last two weeks of August, back to our normal Monday-Thursday schedule in September.

Charlottesville: Drop-ins for July-August

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:10:19 -0500

There are three drop-in dates for SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 in late July and August, after which we will take a late-summer hiatus for two weeks before we return in September.

The drop-in fee is just $15 for each of these classes, which will run from 10 to 11:45 a.m. on July 31, August 14 and August 21. Studio 206 is located at 206 W. Market Street in Charlottesville, Va.

Rappahannock Belly Dance: July 28-Aug. 18

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:03:21 -0500

A new four-week session of Synergy Belly Dance classes with Charmaine Lee starts July 28 at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and the Rappahannock High School) in Washington, Va. The classes, open to all levels, run from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. on July 28, Aug. 4, 11 and 18.

The series costs $44, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors.

Rappahannock Belly Dance: Tuesday, June 30

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:35:10 -0500

Things that are over: spring, apparently; false starts; health-related cancellations and schedule changes. Things that start anew: Synergy Belly Dance classes with Charmaine Lee at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and the Rappahannock High School).

The classes are now moving to Tuesday evenings — starting next week, June 30, and they run from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. This is a four-week session, with three more all-levels-welcome classes on July 7 (full moon), 14 and 21.

The series costs $44, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors. If you have any questions or would like to sign up, call us at 540.987.8696 or head to the News page over at synergydance.com.

Charmaine Lee
Roger Piantadosi
SynergyDance

Cville Session Starts Friday, June 26

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:28:17 -0500

The next five-week session of SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 starts Friday, June 26.

SynergyDance Intensive: Aug. 17, 2009

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:00:33 -0500

This summer’s SynergyDance Intensive, 8 days of SynergyDance teacher training with founding director Charmaine Lee, has been scheduled for Aug. 17-24, 2009. The program begins and ends with a Monday morning SynergyDance class in Washington, D.C., and is otherwise a residential program (for out-of-town attendees) for the days between, at our rural retreat in Rappahannock County, 70 miles southwest of D.C. Transportation to and from D.C. or Dulles Aiport and close-quarters lodging is included for up to 8 participants.

Our Music Makes the Big Time (or Swine, Anyway)

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:21:32 -0500

Whoa! NPR’s “Morning Edition” used two tracks from Roger’s SynergyDance, Vol. 1 CD yesterday (Wednesday, April 29). So they only played about 14 seconds of the CD’s first track, “Charmaine,” coming out of a report from Israel on swine flu, but it was still a great surprise. And, though the local D.C. public radio station didn’t use it, the npr.org web site says they then used two minutes of the CD’s second track, “Breeze,” as a bed during the break that most local NPR stations use for local weather or news.

Rappahannock Belly Dance: May 20

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:59:11 -0500

Feeling better now that spring is here at last? (Or summer, or whatever you call this late April heat wave?) Charmaine definitely is feeling much better after a long winter, and we both also want to apologize for the health-related cancellations and schedule changes of the last Synergy Belly Dance series — and invite you to join the next session of Wednesday evening classes, which starts May 20.

Sperryville SynergyDance: April 21-May 26, 2009

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:28:36 -0500

The start of The Link’s SynergyDance Spring series has been delayed to April 21 due to a succession of inhibiting factors. The classes will be 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, April 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26 with Virginie Audrain; the cost is $90 for the series, $17 drop-ins, $10 teens/students.

Cville Series: April 17-May 29, 2009

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:01:58 -0500

April 17 begins a new series of Friday morning classes at Studio 206 Downtown from 10 to 11:45 a.m. with Charmaine Lee and Virginie Audrain. This seven-week class session runs April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.

The cost for this seven-week session is $105. Single classes are $17, students, $10.

The Embodiment of Creative Power

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:06:17 -0500

Teacher Danielle Vierling, writing about the Empress on theBlueLightLady.com tarot blog, sheds light on how the Empress represents the embodiment of creative power — and how SynergyDance and its founder Charmaine Lee played this role in Danielle’s own creative life years ago. You can read the post here.

Polarity Therapy and Chronic Disorders

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:56:54 -0500

[This article is reprinted from PolarityTherapy.org, the online resource for polarity practitioners worldwide, created and maintained by Philip Young and Morag Campbell.]

As the pharmaceutical industry’s “one pill for every disease” concept loses credibility among medical professionals and researchers, author and researcher James L. Oschman writes, many of the most thoughtful clinicians are beginning to look at organisms and cells as physical/energetic systems rather than as “bags of chemicals.”

In this atmosphere, Oschman writes, Randolph Stone’s concepts of polarity — and the fundamental causes of inflammation and disease — take on primary significance. He explains why in this article, originally written for those who interested in his workshops on the same subject. (If you are, click on the link under his name to go to his web site.)