New Classes Starting Soon:

Beginning Line Dancing Class:  Thursday, 3-4 PM.  Six-week class will teach the basic steps and some square dance choreography.  Taught at the very beginner level.  January 5-February 2.  Free to Silver Sneakers participants; $18 to others.

SilverSneakers Classic:  Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3-3:30 PM.  Six week class is perfect for the individual who is new to exercise but is also appropriate for those who wish to improve their muscular endurance and flexibility. Classic is designed to increase strength and range of motion as well as to provide improvement in functional skill-related fitness components like agility, balance, coordination, power and speed.  January 4-February 13.  Free to Silver Sneakers participants; $3 per session to others.

SilverSneakers Stability:   Monday and Thursday, 2-2:30 PM.  This six-week course is a drills and skills class designed to improve balance, agility, mobility, and power in an older adult.  All functional movement requires an effective balance system in order to successfully execute daily activities, from walking down the street, to dancing, to executing a squat. A class like Stability will improve one’s confidence and independence. Life happens at various speeds, so finding a movement, holding a movement and progressing through a movement is key to improving the kinesthetic awareness of the exercise being performed.  January 5-February 13.  Free to Silver Sneakers participants; $3 per sesson to others.

Sustainable Square Dancing:  Tuesday, 3:15-5 PM.  A 6-week course which will teach you the basics of modern western square dancing.  After this class you can take an additional 6 weeks which will allow you to come to regular square dancing evenings with the more-advanced dancers.  January 3-February 7.  Free to Silver Sneakers participants; $18 per class to others.

Dance Zone is slowly reopening.  We have the following classes right now:

• Line Dancing - Mondays at 4 PM and Wednesdays at 4:30 PM.  $3 per person.
• Dance and Movement for Parkinson's disease - Tuesdays and Fridays at 2 PM.  Caregivers are welcome.
• Square Dancing - Monday at 7 PM.  $3 per person.  Meetings only if there are enough participants.
• International Folk Dancing - Tuesdays at 7:30; Fridays at 7 PM. 
• Belly Dancing Wednesdays at 7.

• Dancercise - Wednesdays at 3:30 PM.  $3 per class
• Ballroom Dancing - Sundays, 7 PM-8:30 PM.  $5 per person per class.
• Individual Lessons - wedding choreography or whatever style of ballroom or social dancing you prefer.  $30 per couple per hour.

In general, we require for each class:

• Participants must be fully immunized (and boosted) against COVID.
• Intructor Approval
• Masks are required during times of heavy local infection
• Signed waiver 
• Extra sanitary precautions - if you use or touch something, sanitize it.  This also applies to the restroom facilities.

DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDING IF YOU ARE SICK OR HAVE RECENTLY BEEN SICK OR NEAR SOMEONE WITH COVID

Inclement Weather Policy:  Dance Zone is closed whenever Northern Michigan University is closed due to the weather.