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Rockin' At Home To TV Music! We keep monitoring the OHCC safe-return rules and are collecting creative ideas that may fit our Club's activities. Meanwhile, we encourage everyone to enjoy some music at home — especially music that makes you want to dance — good for the body and spirit! On Cox Cable TV music stations there is great music and interesting trivia from our youth. Anytime: • Cox Channel 928 (80s music) • Cox Channel 927 (70s music) • Cox Channel 930 (Solid Gold Oldies) Saturdays: • Cox Channel 957: Palomar College's Station (also 1320 on AM radio) • 10 am – Noon "Seems like old times radio" • Noon – 2 pm "Dan Sweeney's One Hit Wonders" • 2 – 5 pm "That thing with Rich Appel" — great DJ — 60s and 70s music & trivia • 5 – 6 pm "Nothing But Old 45s" with Larry Kratka • 10 pm – midnight – Al Cocchi's "Saturday Nite Fever Classic Dance Party" So, keep music in your home, keep moving, and we'll all be dancing together one day! Stay safe! Remember these words of wisdom: Carry On by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young I will survive by Gloria Gaynor Don't stop Believin' by Journey Keep on Pushin' by the Impressions Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees We would like to introduce one of the dance troupe's big players, Rona Cole. Rona is the co-chairwoman for our performance (this was scheduled to occur in June 2020, and a new date has not yet been determined). Rona's love of dance started around age five when her mother had her join a group of young girls to learn ballet and tap. To this day she remembers a tap dance to the song Tea for Two. When her daughter was five-years-old, they attended ballet classes together. Rona and her husband moved to Ocean Hills in 2005. She joined a tap class that was taught by Nancy Caldwell who was one of the original Mouseketeers! Rona was not sure that she was interested in performing, but she joined Ellie Oakley's class here at Ocean Hills. Ellie was a great teacher, and soon Rona was in a performance! Rona relates that Ellie did everything including choreographing the dances and writing and directing the shows. The Dance Troupe was not sure how the group would manage to put on a show once Ellie departed as the dance teacher. Rona actually wrote the show for Back to the Present in 2016. She credits many residents of Ocean Hills who contribute their expertise to the performances. Helen Sloan was the lead actor in the 2016 show, and Helen was instrumental in helping Rona. In 2018, these two talented ladies wrote Broadway, Here We Come. This year, Helen will be the emcee of our performance, and she is writing the script. In 2016 Dorothy Miller was a big help because a lot of video was used and Dorothy was able to put it all together. The photo shows Rona working on some special dolls that will be used in the tap dance Make Em' Laugh. The inspiration for the dolls was Donald O'Connor's song and dance in the movie Singing in the Rain. In the dance Donald used a large doll figure. (Rona encourages you to view this very funny segment on YouTube). With the help of Kathy Moskovitz and other members of the Sewing Club the dolls are being created. The above acknowledgments are just a mention of a few of the village of people that it takes to put a show together. And we are grateful for all of the talent in this community to work together. We hope that you will enjoy our future show! | OHCC LIVING | JULY 2020 | 15 Doo Wop Ocean Hills Dance Troupe Village Squares Do you know where square dance started? Do you know what part Henry Ford played in American square dance? Square dances were first documented in 16th century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe. Traditional dances included English Country Dances such as The Virginia Reel and the French quadrille. Many terms used in square dance today come from the French, such as promenade, allemande, and do-si-do. These dances came to America with the early settlers. Square dancing was considered vital for generations of Americans until the late 1800s, when it fell out of favor. Square dance was deemed outdated, particularly in the jazz age. In the 1920s, however, Henry Ford resolved to revive the tradition, which he saw as a more genteel way of dancing. He hired Benjamin Lovett, a dance master, to develop a national program. He required his workers to attend classes and provided radio programs with instructions to schools around the country. Lloyd Shaw later developed schools for callers and ballrooms for the dancers. Square dancing had a resurgence after World War ll. In the 50s, callers began developing standards across the United States, and modern American Square Dance began. Square dance became standardized, and dancers can now dance around the world. Over time, calling became an art form in its own right. Our own long-time caller, Jim Randall, was quoted as saying, "You're a showman, an entertainer. As a caller, if I walk in and am calling a dance, I like to feel I'm in the square with them. The look on their faces when they're having fun melts your heart." Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time.

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