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Fun beginners dance classes in Flintshire. Get fit, have fun & learn to dance. No partner needed. Connect - with people, join new groups of likeminded people
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Monday - Cafe Isa, Mynydd Isa - 7pm beginners, practice 7:45, improvers 8:15pm.
£8 per person/£10 for the two classes. My name is Yvette LaFlamme-Williams and I am an IDTA Latin American dance instructor. I originally attended a local ballroom and latin dance school in the 1970's aged 9-10yrs old. In the early years I danced with my brother and eventually we competed nationally & internationally.

We won the title of North Wales Amateur Latin Champions and even represented Wales on the original Come Dancing with Angela Rippon! Eventually, we both went on to train with different dance partners and I was lucky to have several lovely partners including David Wanless, Micheal Boundford & Kevin Lee. In 1987 I was invited to dance professionally with David Griffin (British 10 dance champion). We performed in Hong Kong, Yugoslavia (as was), The Savoy Hotel (London) and several other UK venues. Sadly in August 1989, when we were on the brink of entering the professional competitive circuit, David was sadly killed in a car accident whilst he was on holiday. I was never able to fill the gap that he left in my personal or professional life but decided to study to become a dance instructor in his honour. In 1991 I gained my IDTA Latin American dance teachers (Associate) qualifications and taught in local dance schools on an adhoc basis for a couple of years. During my dance career I have been truly privileged to have trained under the expert guidance of so many world class dance instructors including; Sammy & Shirley Stopford (Shirley Ballas), Carol Smythe, Adrian Prtichard, Norma Graves, Nina Hunt, Micheal Stylianos, Alan Fletcher and Bill & Bobby Irvine. All of whom have shared a little part of their knowledge and expertise with me and which I hope to share with all of you. Meantime I met and married my husband who helped me gain a new passion in my life - being in the mountains, rock climbing, mountain biking and just spending time outdoors in nature. We were both working for The Welsh Ambulance Services as Paramedics while we had our children (two beautiful daughters and I went on to work in a variety of health care settings including teaching, research roles and module lead for health promotion on a paramedic degree programme. After over 30years of frontline emergency work, teaching and research roles in the NHS, I decided to try something different and agreed to work with a company delivering Heritage crafts and skills courses through a government funded scheme. This role opened my eyes to the powerful positivity that creative arts can have on wellbeing and mental health. For decades I had spent most of my working life picking up the pieces of broken people, through sickness, injuries or mental health crisis. Recently I have begun to realise that I not only have the appropriate health care and dance knowledge and skills to help support peoples wellbeing but to perhaps even improve it. Therefore, in accordance with MIND's Five steps to wellbeing our new beginner's class will enable you to tick all of the following wellbeing boxes ;
1. Get active - physical activity helps with positive mental health
3. Take notice - paying attention to being in the moment / engrossed in what you are doing
4. Learn (new things) - dancing certainly challenges the brain cells to coordinate movement and remember dance steps and routines
5. Give - I'm sure at some point during your dance lessons you'll be able to offer a smile or word of encouragement to others

My passion going forward is to get as many people as I can to enjoy moving their bodies to music, learning new skills, stimulating their brains, increasing social connection and improving their physical and mental health through Strictly Fun Dancing classes.

01/04/2026

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Jacquie Almeida Levie, Karen Saviano, Lloyd Narcis, David Brown, Phillip Burton, Graham Williams, Allan Dennehy, Suzanne Rueter Sheehan, Darkatoune Mihidjay

23/03/2026

Another Sunday invitation to teach dancing at Sychdyn Village Hall!
I even managed to get a local community police officer to join in with the fun Strictly Fun Ballroom with Yvette La Flamme-Williams

Yesterday PCSO Dan attended an event at Sychdyn Memorial Hall where local groups and businesses were advertising what they have to offer the community.

These included Strictly fun ballroom, Flintshire u3a, Wilderness Tribe, Dementia UK, Minds Eye Holistic meditation, Vitality Parkrun and Crown Green bowls.

They offer a range of classes and treatments from ballroom dancing and archery to Reiki and meditation covering all ages. Here you can see PCSO Dan having his first ever go at the Cha Cha!💃🏼 (There is also video evidence but I promised I wouldn't post it!)

13/03/2026

12/03/2026

Just a quick update to everyone who dances with us on Mondays at Mynydd isa Community Centre.
We’re reducing the hall hire costs by amalgamating both classes into one. So we’re only dancing from 7-8pm starting Monday 16th March 2026
*(1 hr class without a practice session).

We’ll be trialling this arrangement for a month or two and will be reviewing it through the summer term.

Thanks for your on going support 🙏🏻❤️

08/03/2026

I was invited to teach a group of lovely Women’s Institute (WI) ladies today. We danced cha cha cha, waltz and Samba but only caught a 3 sec clip of our party samba !

07/03/2026

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Teri Slabinski Donaldson, Kathy Brewer, Evelien Rutten, Bruce Lee Cesar, Rose Corrigan, Caryl Lane, Dene Manning, Halina Wojtas, Daryl Lynn Harvey, Alain Régnier, Eddie Tipson, Laurence Quinn, Brian Connaughton, Kjell Hedberg, Sandor Balla, Pamela Porter, Jenny Hall, Diane Robinson, Bartolome Soberats Llabres, Inta Petrovska, Lionel Thomas, Carlo Padoan, Hans En Ria de Leeuw, Michael Schaeffer, Diana Brown, Николай Кузнецов, Hugo de Backer, Bev Parmenter, Marion Johnston, Chrislene Naidoo, Lynn Margaret Chappell, Fergus Banahan, Monique Briand

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