Missouri Round Dance Association

Tanglefooters Round Dance Club of Joplin, MO, announces its 45th Spring Round Dance, with Bob & Kay Kurczewski, March 4-5, 2022. Downloadable flyer pic is below. Come celebrate their 45th dance with the Tanglefooters!

REMINDER: The 65th MRDA Show-Me Festival, with George and Pam Hurd, is September 24-26 in Jefferson City, MO. Download the flyer, fill it out, and send it in to register for a great weekend in Jefferson City, dancing with old and new friends!

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS WE ARE DANCING!!! RIVER CITY ROUNDS will be having an all day workshop & evening dance at... RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH 9907 Sappington Rd. St. Louis, MO 63128 SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021 WORKSHOP Time: 9:00 am 11:30 am -Phase II & III 11:30 am 1:00 pm - Lunch on your own 1:00 pm 4:00 pm - Phase IV & V 4:00 pm - Dinner on your own EVENING DANCE Time: 7:30 pm 9:30 pm COUPLES ONLY ALL SESSIONS $15.00 per couple for the whole day, casual dress. CDC mandates will be followed. Masks will be worn at all times and hand sanitizer will be supplied. No food, but bottled water will be offered, you will have to bring your own snack. Chairs will be spaced out per couple. Only 50 people can participate in the event. Contact Karen Gregory via email to let her know you are coming. ([email protected]) Local available cuers will be teaching and cueing. Also, mark your calendar for June 11th, RCR will be having a dance at Resurrection at the normal time, 7:30 PM. This location is for June only. We hope to get back into our normal hall by July. Hope to see you there. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Overdue post, pictures from the Tanglefooters Festival, March 6-7, 2020, with Bob and Kay Kurczewski, Liberty Hill, TX, just a week before the pandemic rules were put into place. The Ski's taught "Diamante Rumba," "The Poor People of Paris," and "Just Bummin' Around." The latter was selected as the Phase IV ROQ for 3rd quarter, 2020.

I thought I had already posted the following information, but it hasn't shown up on this site. So here it is again: The 64th Missouri Round Dance Association Show-Me Festival, September 25-27, with Randy & Marie Preskitt, WILL be held as scheduled. An email with a letter from the Board should have already arrived to those who registered within the past three years, with information about dancing at the Capital Ritz and efforts to keep the hall sanitized. ... You can go to the MRDA website [http://missourirda.com/] to download the flyer to register for the event. We hope to see our dancing friends on September 25!

We would like to hear from anyone out there who is a "friend" of the MRDA and has been round dancing recently in a group, like classes or dances. If so, how are you managing it? What is your venue? What are the "rules" you dance by? We would really like to know!

UPDATE: An email has been sent to all MRDA registrants from 2017-2019 with a request for a reply about plans to attend our Festival, September 25-27, in Jefferson City. (Thank you, Coronavirus!) If you have registered in the past three years, please look for it in your email inbox or in your spam or trash. The reply deadline is August 10. We respect your decision, whatever it may be. If you are unsure or will not be coming, please let us know. If you feel comfortable coming to dance, please let us know...and send in your registration! All the information you need to know in order to make your decision is in the email. For the registration form, go to the MRDA website .

TO ALL ROUND DANCE CUERS, TEACHERS, CLUBS WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE OF MISSOURI: IOWA, ILLINOIS, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, NEBRASKA, etc. (This includes Missouri.) Please let us know when your club or organization begins to dance again: dates, times, and rules. We want to dance!

It is with heavy hearts that we belatedly announce the death of former Secretary of MRDA Pat Schrant. Our condolences go to Michael Schrant, her husband and dance partner. Her obituary is below.

From Tom Feneis, MRDA President, concerning our recent MRDA festival: ----------------------- "20 couples in attendance, 7 for the first time. (19 couples last year) People continue to praise the facility and seemed pleased with Tom Hicks. Linda Robinson did a good job as his demonstration partner. No one wore masks inside the venue, nor did I hear any comments about it, one way or the other. Everyone did a good job of observing the tent cards to ‘mark’ chairs and maintained... their space. Dances were "Hotta Chocolatta Cha," "Let’s Smile," and "Mambo in Paris." All were very danceable and most couples seemed to have a good grasp of them. I was pleased that Tom said the purpose of these weekends is not to perfect a dance, but to expose people to new dances that they can then take home and work on with their local teachers and coaches to polish them up. I’ve heard that before, but also know that many couples ‘beat themselves up’ if they can’t do a dance perfectly before leaving." ---------------------------------- This is all good news! Three of the new couples were from California, following Tom Hicks, I suppose. In retrospect, we are very pleased with the results and pray that all will stay well.

Overdue post, pictures from the Tanglefooters Festival, March 6-7, 2020, with Bob and Kay Kurczewski, Liberty Hill, TX, just a week before the pandemic rules were put into place. The Ski's taught "Diamante Rumba," "The Poor People of Paris," and "Just Bummin' Around." The latter was selected as the Phase IV ROQ for 3rd quarter, 2020.

For those who may be unfamiliar with Tom Hicks, here is a video of his dance "Senorita Cha," phase 4+2. This video is also available at Facebook site "Dance Demos Underground." https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=847899155614094

UPDATE: The MRDA Show-Me Festival is still going to be held, but the clinician has changed. The Preskitts have cancelled. In their place will be Tom Hicks, from Los Angeles. Tom has choreographed, among others, "G.I. Jive," "Senorita Cha," and "Remembering You." Come join your dancing friends for instruction from Tom Hicks! You can find the revised flyer at http://missourirda.com/ You can also find the vote list at the MRDA site.