Aerobics, Jingle Bells Mix in Fitness Instructor's Christmas Class
Three decades of dancing to Elvis and Sinatra brings joy to dancers
Fitness instructor Carol Baumgartner brought her choreographed Christmas aerobics routine to the Madison Community House for the 30th year this December. Baumgartner, the former dance director at the Madison Area YMCA, came up with moves to some of the Christmas favorites: Elvis “Blue Christmas,” Jingle Bell Rock, Ricky Martin’s Ay yi yi It’s Christmas and other holiday selections by Frank Sinatra and John Lennon. For 29 years, a group of women known as the “Joy ladies” got in the Christmas spirit with the conga, kick ball change and cha-cha-cha wearing silver bells on their sneakers and dancing with Santa hats. “It was always great fun,” said Madison resident Ros Seneca. This would have been the first year without the routines had it not …
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