Twist & Shout Retreat on August 4th

Mandatory Attendance:

Saturday, July 28, 2012, 9:00 a.m. 

Centennial Park

300 West 100 South

Santaquin, UT 

It's our first retreat for Twist & Shout Performance Group. All students of Twist & Shout are required to attend, and we are going to have so much fun. It will center around preparation for our Orchard Days appearance on August 4th. 

We have a fun day planned for everyone. As lunch will be provided we need an exact count. So everyone must R.S.V.P. to ces@candacesalima.com.  The day will begin for the kids and teens at 9:00 a.m. and the schedule will go as follows: 

Children/Teens

9:00 a.m. Tablecover Drawing: This will be dedicated to refreshing the lyrics and songs the children will be singing at Orchard Days on the 4th of August. 

10:00 a.m. Musical Treasure Hunt 

11:00 a.m. If you've accepted the invitation on Facebook to the Twist & Shout Retreat then you know what we're doing at 11:00 a.m. If you have friends and family who would like to join us, please invite them to be at the park at 11:00 a.m. straight up. Main Pavilion.

Noon: Lunch for Everyone provided by Island Dolls

Adults/Teens 

1:00 p.m. Music 

2:00 p.m. Dance 

3:00 p.m. Hair/Makeup for Men & Women 

4:00 p.m. Rehearsal for Everyone 

5:00 p.m. BBQ for Twist & Shout performers and their families. 

This will be pot luck, so please let Candace Salima know via the email address above exactly what you're bringing. We're really looking forward to this day, and hope that you are too. We'll have a lot of fun, learn a lot, and walk away feeling great.

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Thanks for visiting Twist & Shout! Come join us and have a great time while developing and sharing your talents!

And we're back!

Twist & Shout Performance Group, directed by Heather Hunt

We have been terribly derelict in keeping this blog up. However, things are "a-changing" at Twist & Shout. We've held several concerts since the last post, and our last, the Twist & Shout "Everything Broadway" Spring Concert was amazing. I think we turned a corner, upped our game, and couldn't have been happier with our performance.

We had 200 audience members join us for the concert and there was great fun had by all! With the usual suspects, we also had Ryann Race of "So You Think You Can Dance," Craig Evans, formerly of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Jensens who graced with amazing ballroom numbers.

Our adult class, which is now free, has grown to 9 or 10 people. Four to five men, and five women. It is rare we can get through ten minutes of class without one of the men cracking us up. But we learn and we laugh, and our harmonies have really come together.

The kids have grown, and with that their talents have also! I couldn't be prouder of each of them.

In addition, we have revamped our website! Our new URL is www.t-s.candacesalima.com.

And least but not least, fall enrollment is beginning now. For a mere $35/mo. you can join us ... and I think you should. I issue a personal invitation to you, bring your spouse, children or come by yourself ... this is a great opportunity for a nominal price. There is a family discount for siblings, and the adult class is free.

"I look forward to working with you." 

Heather Hunt
Director, Twist & Shout

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Thanks for visiting Twist & Shout. We hope you'll give us a call and join us in expanding your talents and having a blast in the meantime!

Twist & Shout Christmas Concert 2009

We had an absolute blast with the Twist & Shout 2009 Christmas Concert. Neither snowstorm, BYU bowl game, BYU basketball games or anything else kept us from performing, for the "show must always go on!

The little girls performed the most adorable Dance of the Reed Flutes. The older girls rocked with Winter Wonderland, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and When Christmas Comes to Town. Alvin and Candace Salima sang Silver Bells. The men thrilled the audience with The Drifters version White Christmas. The women showed you're never too old to bustamove with a smokey jazz dance number to SheDaisy's Santa's Got a Brand New Bag. Literally 60 minutes of song, dance and music all centered around Christmas.

Lucky for you, if you weren't able to be at the concert, the DVD will be available for purchase, beginning next week. $15.00 and that baby is all yours to watch from the comfort of your own home. So reserve your copy now and it will be shipped to you next week.

Twist & Shout Christmas Concert 2009 DVD

We had several new people, from the very young to adults decide they wanted to be a part of Twist & Shout too and sign up for classes. There's still plenty of room, so if music is something that makes your soul stand up and sing, join us. I promise you, you will not regret it. You'll improve your talents, increase your breadth of experience, and form friendships which will last you a lifetime. Trust me when I say, you're never too young or too old to have some fun and grow a little in the process.

So if this sounds like something you'd like to do, call Heather Hunt, the director of Twist & Shout at 801-754-1199.

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Thanks for visiting Twist & Shout. We hope you'll give us a call and join us in expanding your talents and having a blast in the meantime!

Upcoming Concerts

Twist 'n Shout will be performing a few numbers at Orchard Days in Santaquin, Utah on July 28, 2009.

The numbers being performed are:

Super Trouper by Heather Hunt, Candace E. Salima and Alison Bernards
Dancing Queen by Heather, Candace, Alison and the Womens Class
Charleston by the 3 to 5 year-olds
My Boyfriend's Back by the Teen Girls

Be sure and drop by. It's going to be a lot of fun on a wonderful summer day.