Let me congratulate Big Apple Ranch (http://www.bigappleranch.com) for their very successful Saturday night monthly dance party! I was finally able to attend this past Saturday and was so thrilled to see so many eager and interested dancers and some familiar faces on the floor for the Two Step and Line Dance lessons and for social dance! It was very nostalgic for me to see this kind of energy on the Country Music and Dance floor once again! It was also great to see my D & D friends, David, Daniel and Donna! I'll be back again on Saturday, April 8th, for The Big Apple Ranch's 26 Year Anniversary Celebration Party at 320 West 37th Street, 2nd floor. I'm excited to bring some friends with me...will look forward to seeing you there too!!!
Now, here's my updated Line Dance Class info:
Hello, Everyone! Please note that there is NO Beg/Improver Line Dance ZOOM Class THIS Saturday, March 18th. I am teaching at The Canadian Line Dance Classic (CLDC 2023) in St. Catherine's! I am so happy to be back at this event after the pandemic break. So, hopefully, I will see you for ZOOM Class #126 on Saturday, March 25th, at 4 PM!
Friendly reminders:
My private line dance classes at 382 Central Park West will resume (after a three year hiatus due to the pandemic) on Thursday, March 23rd, at 7:00 PM. This is a Beginner level line dance class. I MAY add more classes (Absolute Beginner and Low Intermediate) as soon as I can after I determine the abilty levels of the students who attend. Please contact me for all info.
My next Beginner/Improver Line Dance Master Class #8 (Workshop) at NYSC/West 80th, is on Sunday, March 26th, from 1-3 PM!!! It's really been so much fun....will hope to see you there with me! You can sign up and pay for this class on site at NYSC/West 80th at Broadway. Fee is $20 paid to NYSC by credit card.
Please feel free to contact me either on FB Messenger or email if you have any questions regarding my Line Dance OR Fitness classes. RonaKaye112@Yahoo.com

Happy Dancing, Everyone!!!!
Rona Kaye

Dear Line Dance Family Friends,

I am so ELATED about yesterday's Beg/Improver Line Dance Workshop #6 at NYSC/West 80th!!! We had a full house with 37 dancers in total!!! I was so happy to see a lot of "first timers" and I hope that they had as much fun as I did! The energy was high and I am very grateful to all who attended (and to Maria who did an amazing job downstairs with registration!). We went over the allotted time (2 hours) and danced for almost THREE HOURS!!!! I took a chance by teaching some challenging choreography (for Beginners) and we were successful!!! I KNEW that they could accomplish the feat and they did!!!

Thanks to all of you for your dedicated support....I appreciate it more than you can know. I am looking forward to getting back to the Studio for my in person weekly classes. One of my goals is to have a higher level (Low Intermediate) class in addition to the Beginner level class.....some of yesterday's attendees expressed a desire for this and I am in!!! Let's do this!!! I will keep you informed.

So, once again, thank you from my heart for helping me to share this great sport with you. There is so much more to learn, to dance, to experience. The world of line dance is an amazing international phenomenon and it is my dedicated passion...for so many years now. Welcome to my world, Dancers....now let me do my thing and share as much as possible with you!!! We will have a great time together!

I WILL see you again soon....promising to keep all of you informed about future line dance classes and social events! Please feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have regarding my classes or line dance in general. Please "pencil in" the date of Sunday, March 5th, for our next "Master Class" #7 (Beginner/Improver Level Workshop)...waiting on approval from NYSC Management Team. I WILL keep you informed!

Hello again! Well, the traveling for me is on a short hiatus for now. I'm happy to be in New York City for the ever so magical holiday season!

I am excited about 2023! Just yesterday, I had more confirmed bookings and will be adding TWO more Line Dance Weekend Events where I will be teaching next year! My updated teaching event schedule is available on this site.

This past Sunday, December 11th, I had Line Dance Master Class #4 at NYSC/West 80th (where I have been a Physical Fitness Profesional since 2000). We had a great group once again! I am so grateful for this opportunity to share our amazing sport of Line Dance with new dancers. It's so cool to watch them learn, dance and enjoy themselves as they tackle this new world. We WILL have Master Class #5 on Sunday, January 8th! So, pencil in the date and join me on the dance floor! More details to follow about this event.

I am still patiently (not really) waiting to hear about returning to 382 Central Park West so that I can officially resume my in person classes. I have taught line dance there since 2010! The Pandemic caused us to place the in person classes on hiatus and that's when we moved to the ZOOM format on Saturdays. This coming Saturday will be class #117! Wow!

I hope that all of you enjoy a very happy, healthy and peaceful holiday season with your family and friends. Please take care of yourselves and stay well and safe.

Thank you for your continued support...
Rona

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Well....now we are looking at Master Class Number THREE at NYSC/West 80th on Sunday, November 6th, from 10 AM-12 PM!!! I am so happy that our first two Master Classes went so well. Happy to be introducing our amazing dance sport to new dancers. Will look forward to seeing some of you there! Kindly contact me via email with any and all questions regarding any of my classes.
  
We are still ZOOMING on Saturdays! Tomorrow is Class #113! We will review dances we know and I'll be teaching something new!! We will continue to have these ZOOM classes indefinitely. Thank you to ZOOM for helping to keep us sane during the pandemic. I am currently still looking for studio space in order to get back to our in person classes. I'm READY!!! I will keep all of you informed.
  
I've been very blessed to have been so busy traveling to events these past couple of months. I attended an amazing line dance weekend in New Orleans (The Xperience). Then I taught in the Boston area with my Dance "Sistahs" Lynne, Rosie & Forty, attended Dance For a Cure in Ohio, taught at Windy City Line Dance Mania in Chicago, am off to Detroit this coming week to teach at Motor City Line Dance Classic and then teach again at NYSOL (New York State of Line) in November. Whew! And, I love it! It's been a great dancing and teaching experience for me. I feel very blessed and am most grateful to all Event Directors who continue to invite me to teach at their dance weekends after so many years.
  
Okay....that's it for now....will hope to run into you somehow, somewhere....hopefully on a line dance floor!!! Please take care and stay safe. Happy dancing, wherever you may be!!!

Hey, Everyone! This has been an exciting line dance week. I have the Master Class coming up this Sunday (please email me for all info) and we MAY be headed back to our sweet little studio at 382 Central Park West in Mid-October! All great news. It is time to start dancing together again IN PERSON! Yes, it's my opinion, but I am hoping that you feel the same way!

We had a great ZOOM Class #108 last Saturday! We danced 11 dances with one new dance teach. I had fun and hope you did too!

Kindly RSVP to let me know if you will be joining me THIS Saturday, August 27th, for Class #109!!!! I'll include some of the choreography that I'll be sharing at the Master Class as I know that some of you in this group will be attending! I'm really happy about that and am very grateful for your continued and dedicated support.

Please RSVP and as always, thank you for your donations for class. I appreciate it very much. Have a great week....try to practice so we can dance more than talk! Sixteen dances on suggested play list....can we do it????? YES!!!!

I'm excited to announce that I will (finally) be having an "in person" Line Dance Master Class on Sunday, August 28th, from 10 AM-1 PM at my "home" gym, New York Sports Club at West 80th and Broadway! Yes, it is a three hour presentation with a lot of teaching from Beginner level and up depending on turn out. The $20 fee is paid to NYSC online OR at the gym on the day of the event. You do NOT have to be a member of NYSC in order to reserve a space in the class.

I am thrilled to finally be able to share the beauty, fun and benefits of our great sport with those who have not yet experienced it and with those who have been with me before! PLEASE email me at RonaKaye112@Yahoo.com for all info including directions to sign up online. It's easy and you DO NOT have to join the gym in order to make your reservation for this Line Dance Master Class!

I am also working on the outdoor event with The Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District on a Sunday in September and/or October and as soon as I have a firm date, I will let you know!

I am hoping that this exposure will interest enough people so that I can resume in person classes soon. I'll be in touch with our original studio on West 97th Street this week and will let you know as soon as I have positive info. Stay tuned.

I look forward to hearing from you! That's Rona

Hello again, Everyone! I just re-read my last entry and it still sounds about right! I have continued our Beginner/Improver Line Dance Class (the original in person Thursday and Friday classes) on ZOOM. This past Saturday was Class #106!!! It was a great class....I had decided to not teach anything new....we just danced with reviews and made it almost all the way through the suggested play list of 23 dances. We made it through 16 dances!! This week's Class #106 on Saturday, August 6th, at 4:00 PM, will include a new teach!

I have been investigating many options to continue to promote Line Dance here in New York City. I have been pricing studios since our precious studio at 382 (where I had been teaching for many years prior to the Pandemic) is still under construction and renovation. I will stop by there again tomorrow to see what the current status is. I am READY to return to in person classes! I WANT to SEE all of you again!!! I WANT to DANCE with all of you again!!! I am hoping that you feel the same way!

I have my finger on the pulse and I will keep all of you informed regarding upcoming line dance presentations here in Manhattan. I'm hoping to have an outdoor class and an indoor workshop soon...looking at dates in September when it cools off a bit.

I hope that the Summer has been good to you and that you have been enjoying your days. I will be in touch with updated news. Stay tuned....

If you are reading this update here, then thank you for visiting at my website!!! It's looking like my last Blog entry was on April 3, 2020. We were starting to be deep into the pandemic. And, here we are, still, just over two years later! We are still dancing together!! I did begin a ZOOM class in May 2020, exactly two years ago! This Saturday, May 21st, will be our Class #99!!! Amazing. I created this ZOOM class for my Thursday night in person students. I did not want for them to lose all that we had worked so hard for in our Thursday (and sometimes Friday) night classes at 382, our sweet little studio on the Upper West Side.

During the pandemic, I have been dancing online, taking all that the line dance world had to offer, from private classes to Digital Line Dance Weekends. Dancing at home became my way of life AND having this at my feet (so to speak) actually SAVED my life. I have looked forward to dancing either in ZOOM classes or on FB Live for the past two years. I have danced at home more than I ever did pre-pandemic. I am ever so grateful to all of the digital dance promoters and instructors. I was able to teach a few times on The Digital Dance Weekends and am so proud that I was asked to join in on the virtual fun! Thank you to Rachael McEnany-White for inviting me to teach.

So, my friends, I have been feeling like it is time to return to "a" studio for in person classes again. I say "a" studio, because 382 is still under renovation and probably will not be completed until the Fall. I did speak with my contact person there and she is aware that we want to return to 382. She promised to keep me informed. I have made a few phone calls to Ripley-Grier, here on the Upper West Side at 72nd Street, where I taught for YEARS before we moved to 382. This studio is a costly rental but I am willing to give it a try IF I HAVE THE NUMBERS to cover those costs. I will get back to you on the status of this idea. Please let me know how you are feeling about this. It is definitely time to be dancing in person again. Don't you agree?

I was very fortunate this week to have been asked to teach and DJ at a private function. I had suggested to the client to have their long awaited get together (first time post pandemic) at Hill Country, where we were dancing on Mondays nights in 2019. Well, we did and they LOVED it!!! It felt so great to be back at HC and to be teaching and dancing in person again to a small group. I have returned to teaching at the big dance conventions (my teaching schedule is posted on this website), which is another amazing feeling, but teaching Beginner level dances to a smaller class was truly a gift. And the fact that they LOVED it made it all the more special to me. The feedback was great and I am hoping to have a few more new students join us in class. Let's hope that they follow through.

I am determined to continue to promote line dance in New York City. (Tell your friends!) I have a few ideas to promote this amazing sport of ours with the hopes of getting more Beginners involved and to ultimately have a higher level class for Intermediate/Advanced dancers. That has always been my dream. It is time to fight, promote and make that New York City dream come true. If you have any ideas or advice, I am open to hearing what you have to say. New ideas come from different places...bring it on!

I will continue to remain in touch now that I have reinitiated this Blog. I pray that all is well with all of you and that you are happy, healthy and enjoying every blessed moment of each and every day. I will look forward to seeing you and dancing with you soon. xxxx