Our Mission:

Adding years to your life and life to your years using Low Impact Line Dancing.

According to the Keiser Institute on Aging:

By the year 2010, people aged 55-74 will outnumber 25-34 year olds by 18 million! Are you prepared? Baby boomers (those born 1946-1964) started turning 50 eight years ago, at a rate of one every 8 seconds, around the world. In the USA, the rate is 11,000 per day...it will continue to do so for the next 10 years. Health Care costs will accelerate drastically if we don't put healthy eating habits and exercise into our daily routine. The demand for fitness programs and line dance classes and the qualified professionals who can provide them will dramatically increase, creating tremendous opportunities for those who are prepared.

World Statistics:

800,000 Per Month are turning 65 Years old around the world with China, USA, UK leading the pack. The need for you as a active adult to attend classes showing responsibility for lowering your health costs will be vital to your health as you age. Are you preparing yourself?

Our Mission Statement:

The Dancing For The Dream Corporation is a National 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation established for the purpose of promoting health physically and emotionally through line dancing. As a Nonprofit Health Charity, we use line dancing as a means to gather statistics on the movements during dance (Country Western Line Dance) that hurt or enhance a person's health over the age of 50. We are also recording what level of line dance (Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced) keep long term health by lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, increase balance control & centering, increase bone mass and most important; increase mobility without joint damage.

 

This information is made available to the Alzheimer's Foundation, Arthritis Foundation, Diabetes Foundation and the American Heart Association. The positive benefits that can be achieved through line dancing three times a week are backed up with testimonials. (Page being created now) Our one day events are limited to 250 line dancers who are active adults / seniors to assure quality control in a training environment. By the end of 2005 over 10,000 seniors came through the doors of a Dancing For The Dream Seminar. Seminars have been hosted in 23 USA States and Vancouver Canada.

 

The format and vision used for Dancing For The Dream Seminars are created by World Renown Choreographer and Instructor, Mrs Jo Thompson Szymanski (formerly of CMT-TV) and International Country Western Touring/Recording Artist Ms. Scooter Lee collectively. The charity has statistically proven the average age of those attending a Dancing For The Dream Workshop was 65.5 in 2004 and 68.5 in 2005 and 69 in 2006.

We are not a Line Dance Event - We are a National Nonprofit Health Charity using line dance as our chosen form of exercise thus allowing us to a way to gather statistics on the health benefits that can be achieved from line dancing for Active Adults.

Our Vision

We host 24 One Day Seminars a year across the USA encouraging active adults to travel and line dance for health and social reasons. These include but are not limited to, One Day Seminars - called the Dancing For The Dream Health and Line Dance Seminars with times of 10am - 4pm. Next level up is the Bootscooters' Dance Camp Weekends that are all inclusive prices from Friday - Sunday. They include hotel, six meals, three levels of line dance workshops, social dancing along with Health Seminars, Instructors Training Camp, plus Las Vegas Show. These one day seminars and full health and line dance weekends enhance health, ease levels of depression and bring money into the economy on an extra curricular activity basis while reducing costs regarding health issues down the road. (Tax ID #57-115-5415)

 

We do not compete with other line dance events -- in fact, we hope to increase our dance community by raising the awareness on all the social and health benefits associated with line dancing. We work hand in hand with local instructors to place these dancers into weekly venues to keep them line dancing after we leave a state. If you are an instructor, please provide us your info for our USA Instructors Map and/or update your current information. Many of our dancers travel and we encourage them to continue dancing when they are traveling, so they need a place to dance, and we hope it can be yours. We also work hand in hand with the National Senior Olympics in the USA / Canada and encourage each State / Province and National Senior Olympic Games to have line dancing added as recognized Olympic Noncompetitive Sport.

 

Some 50 Years + Statistics:

We now have over 800,000 each month reaching the age of 65 in the world today.

1) 77% of the USA's Assets are controlled by those 50+.
2) Over $300 Billion in Discretionary Income per year is spent by those 50+.
3) $1 Trillion a year in Goods & Services are spent by those who are 50+.
4) 50% of all Vacation Travel in the USA per year is done by those who are 50+.

 

Line dancing is the 2nd most popular extra curricular activity in the WORLD, using all rhythms of music. The most popular music used for line dancing is Country Music. Line dancing has kept active adults and seniors dancing for the health of it all over the world. Singapore just broke the Guinness World Book of Records for having over 11,000 line dancers doing the same line dance at the same time. Introducing line dancing to Seniors is creating a way to encourage a more active, healthy lifestyle. Research indicates that regular exercise is necessary to improve and maintain one's quality of life.

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Thank you.
Scooter Lee - CEO / Founder / Artist

Jo Thompson - Founder / Choreographer / Dance Consultant

 

Dancing For The Dream Charity Event / Seminar - what happens that day?

We use Wellness Center Gyms, local Senior Centers or Community Centers that will hold 200 - 250 Dancers plus tables and chairs. Our registration fee is $40. This includes two protein snacks, a heart smart lunch, goodie bag plus a 32 page program booklet that includes dance scripts and important health information you will want to know. We have four instructors, one on each wall with our lead instructor running the day. Our local instructors are encouraged to wear our "Neon" vests to stand out in the crowd and help us out. Each instructor gets to teach a dance. Our dancers age from 45 - 95 from "never danced to experienced." Our goal is to host these health seminars across the USA and Canada so that we might provide statistics for the government on the health benefits found in line dancing. We cater to those over 50 but welcome any age that wants to learn to line dance at a low impact level. We are a charity so you Registration is actually a donation / fee that is tax deductible.

Our time slot is 10am-4pm on a Saturday with registration starting at 9:30am. Each person who is registered has a chance at the Grand Prize which is something that will enhance their lifestyle. We start with a warm-up and then lessons begin right at 10am. We do a lesson, dance it twice and then social dance to "across the board common line dances" for 15 minutes then repeat this schedule throughout the day. We provide a "Heart Smart" box lunch of sandwich, chips, soda, water or coffee. We give out the Grand Prize at lunch. We open our 50/50 Raffle at 11am and the winning ticket is called at 3pm where the winner gets half.

 

We are NOT mainstream, so our dance levels are for Starters - Beginners - Experienced (not to be confused with advanced dancing) Many of our seniors have been dancing for years but don't choose to do high impact dances. As we age, many of us deal with pains, arthritis, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. High impact dances only aggravate these conditions. For this reason, we stay with good, easy, fun-to-learn and fun-to-do low impact dances. We add variations for the more experienced dancer so everyone dances but at his/her level.

We raise money to continue these seminars in heavily populated senior areas as well as states that need what we have to offer but don't have huge line dancing communities. We hope to fund line dancing for those over the age of 50 in senior centers that cannot afford them. We feel that all seniors should have the opportunity to experience what we already know is a great thing, "line dancing". Many of us are blessed with centers that already offer line dancing several times a week while other centers are not so fortunate. We hope to change these statistics in the next few years by hosting nationwide seminars. This provides awareness to secure major sponsorship to take our D4D's to the next level of having more venues and more opportunities for line dancers to pursue their passion - "dancing for the health of it!"

 

Ms Scooter Lee performs throughout the day and even does a little dancing herself. It ends up being a great day and dancers are so happy that they did not get overwhelmed and were able to learn to dance at the level that suited them.

 

Our Sponsors:

We've been privileged to have sponsors such as Blue Cross, AAA Travel, Hampton Inns, Publix Supermarkets, CVS Drugstores, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, Blistex, Holiday Inns, Costco, Sam's Wholesale, Winn Dixie and Quicktrip Convenience Stores of Atlanta.

 

To Become a sponsor of Dancing For The Dream or for more information, please Contact Us!