Juanita Simanekova » News http://simanekova.com Fun and engaging dance lessons in Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Salsa, Swing and more! Based in Nashville, Juanita Simanekova is a professional ballroom dance competitor and instructor. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:44:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Local Dance Competitionhttp://simanekova.com/2011/07/local-dance-competition/ http://simanekova.com/2011/07/local-dance-competition/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:17:29 +0000 Juanita http://simanekova.com/?p=601 Come visit us at the Hilton Nashville Downtown Hotel July 28-30th for the Volunteer State Dance Challenge. The competition will start early in the morning and run through late evening each day. We will be dancing Friday in the Rising Star and Saturday in the Open events. Best of luck to all our wonderful students!!!!

]]> http://simanekova.com/2011/07/local-dance-competition/feed/ 0 Quick night of dancing on the East Coasthttp://simanekova.com/2011/07/quick-night-of-dancing-on-the-east-coast/ http://simanekova.com/2011/07/quick-night-of-dancing-on-the-east-coast/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:42:13 +0000 Juanita http://simanekova.com/?p=589 Our first trip out east at the Manhattan Dancesport Championships placed us 6th in the Rising Star event. Looking forward to coaching in a few weeks with Kimberley Mitchell and then dancing for our home crowd at Vol State

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Two group classes are scheduled for Wednesday, May 25th ($15/person).

7:00pm – Men Only, Leading/Cuban Motion Q&A
7:45pm – Ladies Only, Following/Cuban Motion Q&A

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