Combined Experience and Resume for Dance4Fun

Dance4Fun was started in June 2007

Educated in the following:

Ballet	Music Theory
Flamenco
East Coast Swing
West Coast Swing
Salsa
Mambo

Teaching Experience

Ballet	Group ages 6-17	Music Theory	Group all ages
Flamenco	Group ages 6-17
East Coast Swing	Group & Privates
West Coast Swing	Group & Privates
Salsa	Group & Privates
Mambo	Group & Privates

Performance Teams:

Carmen Morales Flamenco Dancers (Tampa, Fl)

Yearly Fundraiser Events:

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center

Chapel Hill High School Band

Laura Rose was introduced to the Raleigh dancing community in 1999/2000. She loves Swing, Salsa, Ballroom, Zydeco and anything that ends in “dance”. Laura equally supports many different dance communities in the area. She can be found on a dancefloor every night of the week somewhere in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area She is a member of CDC, TSDS, Longbranch, Loafers (to name a few).

Although more recognized for West Coast, Laura teaches group and private lessons in East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Salsa and a variety of other dances. Because of her interest in all styles of dance, Laura promotes both the inclusion and infusion of moves from one dance into the styling of the others. Because of this, Laura’s classes provide a unique perspective on individual styling and experimentation.

Laura mainly teaches from the Triangle Dance Studio in RTP. She is the founder of “Dance4Fun” and co-founder of “Wade & Laura Dance Events”.

Check www.DanceFourFun.com for more information on classes, calendar of event, etc.

Client Testimonials:

Thanks for being such a wonderful person and instructor. Your lessons highlight my week.

Mark Blinson

Laura is an extremely knowledgeable instructor, knowing many steps and variations, and the technique for each. Yet, she breaks them down into simple one-by-one steps. She genuinely cares for her students, so the nervous jitters dissolve away and the class becomes really fun.

I have met many new friends in her classes, as well, that we can go practice together after class to cement what we have learned.

Mark Blinson

Laura really goes out of her way to help you learn what you want to know and at your own pace. After only a couple private lessons I was able to go out and have fun at the dances. I would definitely recommend her!

Gary Mcdaniel

Our nieces wedding was coming up and finally my husband John agreed to take a few dance lessons. Past lessons had intimidated him, so I knew I’d have to find the right instructor this time.

Laura was the best and took a lot of time to understand our needs.

For John, Laura took the few basic steps he already knew and showed him several “moves” based on what he already knew. She showed him how to work them into the music. She had him covering the floor with great “walking” steps. She stressed a strong lead that allowed John to control a person even when that follower tends to anticipate and back-lead (like I do).

He learned several great arm turns that really took his dancing to a new level.

At the wedding we had several people comment on how well we danced. That was a first and, of course, we both knew it was due to Laura’s lessons.

I can’t say enough wonderful things about Laura. John has even said he might consider a few more lessons and that’s really the highest compliment.

Barbara Dilon.

Dear Laura;

I have really enjoyed this round of private lessons, and I’m looking forward to playing with all the new moves! Thank you for your fund and adventure packed lessons!

I will definitely give high recommendations if anyone happens to notice hopw much fun I’m having with West Coast Swing. Feel free to use my comments on your website or advertising.

Warm Regards,

Jenny Hubert.

Hey Laura,

We were positively fabulous. John danced ALOT. He managed to get in

all the moves you taught him and several people commented on "Fred and

Ginger". John's comment to that was, "I'm just the pole Barbara walked

in with". I even got to show a couple of those moves to my son. You'd

have been proud of your students.

All in all the wedding was a huge dance success. When I mentioned that

The Irregardless and dancing, John actually said, “We'd have to check it out” Have we created a monster?

See you soon and much thanks.

Barbara Dillon

“It’s obvious that Laura puts a great deal of thought and preparation into her lesson plan.

Footwork is clearly an important element of style to Laura. Her emphasis on this is one of the things that set her apart from some of her contemporaries.

She starts each lesson with a warm-up consisting of a number of footwork alternatives designed to enhance the basic step. The way she integrates the new footwork enhancements into a repetitive warm up exercise is a great technique and a way to pack a lot into the hour.

During the core skill sessions, Laura carefully chooses exercises and patterns that are effective at teaching the concept of lead-follow, so important to West Coast Swing and most other dance steps. Each new pattern is demonstrated with slower music at first, then students are challenged with a quicker score for repetition.

Laura pays close attention to and is very patient with each student, regardless of the skill level they come in with. If she sees that a student is not moving through a new pattern quite as quickly as others, she will intervene as either the leader or follower to make sure the student reaches the breakthrough they are seeking. And she does this efficiently so as to not hold up the class any more than necessary.

Finally, Laura is careful to keep the class on task, while still allowing a little fun and mischief, but definitely completing her lesson plan and providing the value that her students are looking for.”

Jim Barron, Ph. D.