Line Dancing

Country Line Dance Association (Singapore)
P.O. Box 72
Ghim Moh Estate Post Office
Singapore 912733

 Line dancing started to become popular in the late 1990’s in Singapore and the Country Line Dance Association Singapore aka as CLDAS was formed with an objective to further promote and popularize line dancing locally . Towards this end, the Association had mooted the idea of the World Largest Line Dance in 2001 which was later realized by NTUC Income in 2002.
 It then worked with Singapore Sports Council to provide course materials for its line dance classes during 2003-2005. The Association has also initiated and completed a 3-year Dancing For Health project, supported by C3A, over the period of 2008-2010 with the aim to introduce line dancing as a low impact activity  for a healthy lifestyle.

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http://francislam.webs.com/
Francis Lam Dance Page

Click on the link above to enter Francis Lam's Dance Page!

You will be able to check on the line dance events organised by Francis as well as view a schedule of his line dance classes at this link.

Tel : Francis Lam - 91183861





Serangoon Garden Country Club ( Recreation )
22 Kensington Park Road
Singapore 557271
Enquiries & Registration : Contact Iris at 6398 5374

Basic, Improver or Intermediate led by instructor Tang Swee Tuan. She has been practising line dance for at least 17 years. Part of the pioneer batch of line dance faciliators to receive certification in the 1990s, she has many years of teaching and facilitating line dance at community centre, clubs and various establishments.

Accredited as a professional line dance trainer by the Professional Association of Linedancers (PAL) in 2003, Swee Tuan constantly upgrades herself by participating in workshops held in Singapore by highly respected international line dance instructors and choreographers Jo Thompson Szymanski, Max Perry and and Ira Weisburd. In addition to teaching, she has also choreographed both line dance and partner line dance.
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The Hong Kong Line Dancing Association

Founded in early 1998 by Ms. Lina Choi, the Hong Kong Line Dancing Association was the first organization in Hong Kong to promote and instruct traditional line dancing classes. When the association was first established, there were only a few classes with a small number of students.

Under Lina's professional direction, the association has grown in size and popularity. Today, over 30 classes of different levels are offered each week at 6 venues, and more than 400 students from all age groups and diverse backgrounds are currently enrolled.


Golden Boots
The Singapore Line Dancers' Yellow Pages

Golden Boots provides an up to date calendar of events of line dancing activities in singapore. It also features a page featuring websites which provide line dancing classes, western wear shopping, and lots of other information related to line dancing. Great site . Thanks to the guys managing this site !




DANCING FOR HEALTH…..PHYSICAL, MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

Those of us who are already line dancers know the benefits.  It isn’t simply getting some exercise.  While many may start out with the intention of taking a session of classes for eight weeks, many more find themselves becoming addicted to line dancing because they love the music, the confidence that grows from mastering a dance, the friendships that start to form and more.  If you’re someone contemplating joining a line dance class, below are some great reasons.  For those of you already line dancing, know that you’re doing one of the best activities you can for total body wellness.

Dancing is a unique form of exercise because it provides the heart-healthy benefits of an aerobic exercise while also allowing you to engage in a social activity. This is especially stimulating to the mind, and one 21-year study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found dancing can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in the elderly.  In the study, participants over the age of 75 who engaged in reading, dancing and playing musical instruments and board games once a week had a 7 percent lower risk of dementia compared to those who did not.

Dancing has great health benefits !

Those who engaged in these activities at least 11 days a month had a 63 percent lower risk! Physical activities like playing tennis or golf, swimming, bicycling, dancing, walking for exercise and doing housework were also studied. One of the surprises of the study was that almost none of the physical activities appeared to offer any protection against dementia.

There can be cardiovascular benefits of course, but the focus of this study was the mind.  There was one important exception:  the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia was frequent dancing which lowered the risk by a dramatic 76 percent. Of all the physical activities, dancing involved the most mental effort.


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