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VIRtUALLY VERDANT: Disco Fever! Refresh Your Dance Moves

VIRtUALLY VERDANT: Disco Fever! Refresh Your Dance Moves
VIRtUALLY VERDANT: Disco Fever! Refresh Your Dance Moves

Sunday, April 24, 2022

What fun! We took our Reunion theme "Party Like It's 1977!" to heart and practiced our Disco moves on Sunday.  The Saturday night dinner at Reunion will include a dance floor and 1970s playlist, so some of us will be packing your dancing shoes.  As a warm up, Adele Morrissette, now a competitive ballroom dancer, and her dance partner Yury guided us through some Disco dance basics to help folks get ready for the party at Reunion. Folks not attending Reunion also joined us at this energizing practice session. We "got our groove on", or at least some of us did.

Adele enjoyed a long and successful investment banking career based in New York, covering technology-enabled services and digital media companies. Unexpectedly and suddenly widowed in 2013, she was prompted to reconsider how she spent her time. On a yoga retreat in 2015, she met a woman who introduced her to a ballroom dance studio in New York City and that was the beginning of a new calling.

Social dance had been one of Adele's earlier passions. With classmate Trudi Berlin, Adele was a founding member of the Wellesley/MIT Ballroom Dance Society. However, given a demanding career, there had been no time to continue to pursue this passion. After starting lessons in a proper studio with professional teachers in 2015, Adele was bitten by the dance bug. By the end of that year, she quit her investment banking job to take private dance lessons five days a week and started to participate in dance competitions, despite no prior ballet or prior formal dance training.