News and Events
Welcome to the website of Carleton's Ballroom Dance Team! We are a group of Carleton students who meet weekly to improve our abilities as dancers, as well as to prepare our members for competitions and general ballroom dancing. Please take a look around our website and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
More pictures!
March 23, 2013Check out the new media! Thanks to our wonderful photographers, photos from Madison last fall are finally up, as well as some fun tidbits in the Rogue's Gallery. We now…Star of the North 2013
March 8, 2013We just got back from the annual Star of the North competition up in Minneapolis. We had many couples do well and get lots of callbacks and all three of…New news! Badger Ballroom Dance Competition
November 18, 201211/9/12 After a long hiatus we’re trying to keep our website current! Check out the new photos from the past year. Photos from the fall competition in Madison will be…Cyclone Ballroom Classic Results!
November 5, 2009Cyclone Ballroom Classic: Competition Results: Our team is awesome!!!
Katie and Michael: In Newcomer:
4th Place- American Rumba; 3rd Place - American Cha Cha; 3rd Place - American Waltz; 2nd Place -…
Club Sport Status!
October 9, 2009Club Sport Status!
Exciting news! The Competitive Dance Team is Carleton's newest club sport!
This is very exciting, because it allows the team more access to practice space, funding, and P.E. credit for team membership!
Check out the club sports webpage for more information at:
https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/rec/club/
New Fall Schedule
October 9, 2009New Fall Schedule!Here is a list of the practice times for fall term (2009):
Monday: Open Practice 9:00-10:00 p.m. in Cowling
Friday: Fundamentals/Open Practice 3:00-5:15 p.m. in Cowling
Saturday: Latin- 4:00-5:30 p.m. in the Rec
Sunday: Ballroom- 4:00-5:30 in Cowling
Hope to see you all there!
Summer practices
June 20, 2009For those of you around Northfield, we will be having completely optional and open practices during the summer. The times are 10 AM to 12 PM Saturdays in the Rec…Star of the North 2009 Photo Album
March 7, 2009I've gotten off my butt and put up some (but by no means all) of our album-worthy pictures from Star of the North. Take a look at the media page to find them. In addition, I've posted the results to Star of the North under history, with a summary and highlights. Enjoy!
Spring Practices
March 4, 2009Spring is in the air (well, soon anyways). This spring term we are going to be focusing on Samba and Tango.
In Cowling:
Review: Fridays 4:30-5:30PM
Ballroom: Saturdays 5:00-6:00PM
Latin: Sundays 4:30-5:30PM
Fundamentals: Mondays 9:00-10:00PMIn the Rec:
Open Practice: Tuesdays 9:00-11:00PM
Our first coaching session of the term will be first weekend. Saturday, April 4th, 1:00-3:00PM. We will be continuing our work on the fundamentals of Samba, as well as starting with International Tango.
This is our last week of practices of the term, so lets work hard to finish out the term with a bang. You have all been fantastic. Go Carls!
Star of the North - Professional Photos, Results Available
February 27, 2009Check them out!
Results - http://sotn.usadance-mn.org/index.html
Pictures - http://www.creativeprostudio.com
Star of the North - Congratulations!
February 22, 2009Congratulations to everyone who competed at Star of the North! Everyone did a fantastic job, bringing home hardware for Carleton in many events! Results will be up as soon as we have a full posted list from the competition.
Coaching Session - February 28th
February 1, 2009We have another coaching session coming up with Mariusz, Saturday February 28th from 1pm-3pm. We'll be talking to him about our experience at the Competition, as well as beginning work on Samba.