Keeping fit in the colder months has been a real challenge for many people. Now Weehawken residents can get some exercise on the dance floor and maybe make some new friends at the same time.
Free dance classes are available at the Nutrition Center each Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. The dance instructors are Restie Dantis and Lisa Purdy, and judging from a recent session, their teaching is not only invigorating but fun, too.
Dantis has been performing since the age of nine, some fifty one years of experience. The dances he teaches include the two-step, and ballroom and Latin dances in the American and international styles.
His goal is to help learners, in a short period of time, to enjoy themselves when they go dancing in social situations and to bring greater pleasure to their lives.
Purdy learned Ballroom and Latin dance styles in Taiwan, and immigrated to the USA.
She met Dantis at the Nutrition Center. Later Purdy took the lessons from Dantis to improve her Ballroom dance in International and Latin styles. She has been taking his private lessons since 2010, and became Dantis’s dance partner.
Shall we dance?
