Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company

CCBDC’s holiday special music video is here! Please enjoy this dance to What If (I Told You I Like You) by Johnny Orlando and Mackenzie Ziegler. We are wishing you a happy 2021! Choreography: Denise Machin... Song & Video Editing: James Karsten See more

Come join CCBDC Director, Denise Machin, for a dance destress tomorrow!

CCBDC stands in solidarity with the student organizers of the mutual aid efforts across the Claremont Colleges (NobodyFailsAtScripps, NobodyFailsAtCMC, HMC Students and Occupy Pomona). Please enjoy our at home performance and if you have the capacity to do so, please consider donating to any of these funds to help support the students who have been heavily impacted by COVID. Together we can make a tangible difference! Mutual Aid Funds:... Scripps: tinyurl.com/scrippsmutualaid Pomona: tinyurl.com/occupypom CMC Venmo: @cmcmutualaid HMC Venmo: @hmc-solidarity @Claremont-Solidarity-Fund Also, checkout the fundraising music festival event happening right now: https://www.facebook.com/events/186510085956164/?notif_t=plan_reminder¬if_id=1590949800656911

Hey everyone! Missing all of you so much right now! As a board, we are working on planning activities for this semester, and we are really excited to keep fostering our CCBDC community even while we are so far apart. If you are interested in participating this semester, please fill out the google form linked below, and we will add you to the Fall 2020 facebook group. There won't be any time commitment requirements this semester, so even if you would just like to see what we are up to and pop into events here and there, please fill it out! Also, given that we are all virtual this semester, alumni are welcome to participate as well! Please reach out to me or any of the other board members if you have questions! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeTIX5PK64jlN8ni/viewform

If you want to learn this combination, head on over to our Instagram page! The tutorial is uploaded and it’s only 13 minutes long Thanks again for a great time & see you all next week! -Nicole P.S. Here is the fast version of the song:... https://drive.google.com/open See more

Tune in to Instagram Live (@claremontballroom) at 4:30 PM PST today for another latin workshop! See you then!

Here is a shortened tutorial for today’s workshop! thank y’all for joining me today, I had so much fun!! If you want to practice with counts/music, the last three minutes should be where I do that! See you all next week for a fun Cha Cha to Oops!... I Did it Again ps. for those who came to the live version, this version is the opposite (non mirrored) way!!

We are so excited to announce that every Friday until May 8, CCBDC will be hosting weekly workshops in different styles of Latin dance! They will be at 4:30pm PST on our official Instagram Live (@claremontballroom), hosted by our very own Nicole Pang SC ‘20! We will also be posting videos of each lesson after happens in case you can’t make it live. We hope to see you there! The lessons will be: Friday, April 17: Samba (Light It Up - Major Lazer) Friday, April 24: Cha-Cha (Oop...s!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears) Friday, May 1: Style & Song TBD Friday, May 8: Style & Song TBD See more

Please welcome the newest members of the CCBDC family!

Another Tour and Campus+ auditions in the books! Next up, internal campus auditions and NEW MEMBER AUDITIONS (more info coming soon). We would like to thank our director Dr. Denise Machin & our two spectacular guests, Daniel Buhala and Jason Ju, for waking up so early and being on our judging panel! We are so grateful for your expertise and guidance!

Introducing the 2020 CCBDC Nationals Team (minus a few) We’re so excited to compete at the National Collegiate DanceSport Championship this coming March in Chicago. Keep up with our social media (ig: @claremontballroom) to get more fun updates on our process and find out ways you can help us get there #ccbdcnationals2020

Please fill out if you plan on returning to the CCBDC for the SP2020 semester!

to Our 2020 Officer Board: President: Rachel Howard Vice President: James Elliot Karsten Secretary: Celia Fritsch Treasurer: Jessica Mei... Performance Dance Coordinator: Christina You Competitive Dance Coordinator: Eva Molina Community Service Coordinator: Emma Paulini See more

Happiest of birthdays to our wonderful director, Dr. Denise Machin!! we are incredibly lucky to have such a caring, thoughtful, and immensely talented person as our teacher + role model! If you want to read about how she’s restructured the company over the past years to be more inclusive, check out this article : https://tsl.news/ccbdc-director-denise-machin-on-ballroom-/

THROWBACK THURSDAY! Our director + some of our officers attended a reception last Thursday for the Holmes Fund for the Arts! We are so excited to share that we’ve received this award through TCCS for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The event for Intercollegiate Showdown 2019 is up! Check back soon for a registration link!