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The Oakville Beaver, W ed ne sd ay, N o v e m b e r 7, 2001 - C3 Latin and ballroom dance into next year at The Fantasy Ball Once again, The F antasy B all will be held on Dec. 31 at the Cayton-Tang International DanceSport Centre in downtown Burlington. The theme o f this year's New Year's Eve party will be M ardi Gras, featuring a carni val atmosphere, dance demonstrations, food, mixers, door prizes, and other surprises. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with formal sitdown dinner at 7 p.m. Inside the elegant ballroom with golden chandeliers and hardwood floors, Latin and ballroom dance music will set the fun mood of the evening. This annual event is organized by former Canadian and North American Amateur Stan dard Ballroom Champions, Robert Tang and Beverley Cayton-Tang, who are now profes sional instructors/coaches in Burlington. In addition to being featured on W TN 's D ancing a t the Palais, this couple has made appearances on the Life N etw ork's The Things We D o F or Love, TV O 's Studio 5, ESPN's D anceSport C ham pionships from Boston, and CTV 's VV 5. Their websites - www.dancescape. TV and www.dancescape.com - are the world's leading internet sites about dance as art and sport, with online video dance demonstra tions, instruction, and worldwide dance news. "Our goal is to continue to promote the popularity of dance as a fun fitness activity for people o f all ages, particularly now that competitive DanceSport is receiving more and more awareness as an Olympic-recog nized sport," said Tang. "Our interest next year is in organizing a world-class competi tive dance event in the Halton/ Hamilton area with top world class competitive ball room dancers, and w e're working actively behind the scenes now scouting for a worldclass venue." Non-dancers and dancers are invited to join the festivities on New Year's Eve, meet the Tangs, and participate in fun social danc ing, line dancing, spot prizes, dinner, mid night snack, and complimentary celebratory champagne. Early Bird registration is $79 per person on or before Nov. 16. For more information about The F antasy Ball, ballroom dancing or DanceSport, con tact the Tangs at 905-633-8808, e-mail: dancesport@ dancescape.com, or one of their websites. ABOVE AND BEYOND: The Oakv ille Arts Council will present Jordan Travis, director of The Entertainers barbershop chorus, with one of nine Above and Beyond awards tonight. The 20-vearold tenor, who was initially apprehensive at the prospect of conducting a chorus o f his elders, has settled right into the job and all the volunteer hours it entails. Any male singer interested in singing with this group can test the waters by joining The Entertainers' Holiday Chorus. Rehearsals are held every M onday this month, from 7 to 8 p.m., at St. Volodymyr's Cultural Centre on Dundas Street West at (old) Fourth Line. For more details, call 905-845-6567 or just show up at rehearsals. Maximum class size is three at new Bronte Art Academy (C ontinued from page C 1) Although he opened the doors of his new busi ness on Sept. 10, the official opening celebration this weekend, by invitation only, will signify the start of a new career for the owner as well as the beginning o f student exhibitions for his pupils. Sandilands' decision to open the academy was bom from a perceived need for more fine art teachers. The gallery, he says, was an after thought when he realized that the large, blank walls were begging for paintings. "As luck would have it, in looking for space, I came across a place that was big enough for an academy and had tons of wall space," he explains. Some o f the paintings gracing the wall are his; others belong to a couple o f local artist friends. But soon those artists will have to make room for student artwork as Sandilands prepares for his weekly student exhibitions, beginning Nov. 18. "There will be a student show and sale every Sunday until Christmas," he says, noting that the public is invited to drop in and enjoy the students' artwork or even boost their egos by purchasing an original at reasonable prices. "In the spring, I'm going to be organizing stu dent/family excursions down to the AGO (Art Gallery o f Ontario) on Sundays to look at, explain, marvel at and grasp how the old masters painted," he adds. "I'm also planning to have open painting days. For example, on Mondays, all day, people can drop in for a free coffee and paint for a day." The young people's artwork is already posted on Sandilands' website, so they can show their friends and family how they are progressing, if they choose. Although Sandilands is trained in portrait art at the Ontario College of Art, he also teaches still life and landscapes in a number of media graphite (pencil), watercolours, gouache, watersoluble oils and Karat Liqua, which is a waxbased pigment. "I have a whole class doing oils on a Wednes day afternoon and you can't smell a thing. If smells like linseed oil," he says, adding that watercolours seem to be the medium of choice for most of his students, especially the adults. And many of those adults are what he refers to as Sunday afternoon artists - those who can draw or paint but need to fine-tune their skills. "I teach them how to bring their artwork farther along. I have one woman who is 67 years old and has been painting every Sunday her whole life. She brings in a painting from home and I show her what's she's doing wrong and how to correct it. She just needs direction." As for the gallery, it boasts reproductions of Oakville scenes by Robert Boast-Comish, prim itive art by Bob Irvine, and Sandilands' own drawings and paintings, which include every thing from portraits and landscapes to "handpainted old-masters reproductions" - or original copies o f famous pieces that the masters painted centuries ago. One-hour art classes for kids cost $100 per month at the academy - all materials included. And gift certificates are available for classes as well as for private lessons for children and adults, says Sandilands. For more information, contact the academy/ gallery in Bronte at 905-469-9937. Darkroom work offers her a `second shot at a photograph' (C ontinued fro m page C2) Is another year of GICs the best thing for your RRSP? With todays low interest rates, probably not. Consider investing in Equity linked Notes. 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