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Presenting
The Thoroughly Disgusting
SSQQ Sleazy Bar Whip Party
Saturday, April
25
9:15 pm - Midnight
$15 cover
($10 if you take a Friday or Saturday Crash Course) |
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ANNOUNCING THE
MARIO ROBAU INTENSIVE
and more!
As most of you know,
Mario Robau, the most famous Whip - West Coast Swing
instructor in the country, has agreed to teach here
at SSQQ on a full-time basis starting in April.
Besides the new "Solar Whip" class that will take
place on Mondays in April, Mario has asked to
participate in our annual Sleazy Bar Whip Party.
For starters, Mario will teach a special Friday
Night Crash Course (April 24) on "The Legend
of the Houston Whip," a tribute to the Down and
Dirty Traditions of the infamous Whip.
On Saturday Night, Mario will teach the infamous
Sleazy Bar Whip Crash Course (couples only!) and
then hang out at the Party to follow.
Furthermore, in
Conjunction with the SSQQ Sleazy Bar Whip Party,
Mario will spend the entire weekend conducting his
first-ever
West
Coast Swing Intensive here at SSQQ.
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FRIDAY WHIP CRASH COURSE 7-9 PM
(To register, just show up and pay at the door)
LEGEND OF
THE HOUSTON WHIP
-
Mario
SATURDAY Whip/ West Coast Swing
CRASH COURSES 7-9 PM
(To register, just show up and pay at the door)
BEG WEST COAST SWING - Patty/Joe
EAZY SLEAZY WHIP PATTERNS - Rick
DISGUSTING SLEAZY BAR WHIP WORKSHOP -
Mario (couples
only!)
Wear Red and Black or Watch Your Back.
Check your Guns and Knives at the Door;
Leave your Morals at Home...
Music:
Whip in Room 1
Western
Music in Room 4 |
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SATURDAY WESTERN
CRASH COURSES 7-9
PM
(To register, just show up and pay at the door)
BEG C&W : TEXAS
TWOSTEP - Robert
INT TWOSTEP: CIRCLE TURNS - Linda
BEG WESTERN WALTZ -
JillTwo Dance Parties in One!
This is a Western Dance Party too!!
We combine Rooms 3 and 4, put out some tables
and have a
Western dance
at the same time as the Sleazy Bar Party!
Music:
Whip in Room 1
Western
Music in Room 4
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A
gorgeous but dangerous-looking woman walked into a bar.
She stopped at the door and surveyed the place like she
owned It. She was wearing the tightest
pair of leather pants anyone had ever seen.
Every curve, every muscle, every contour was perfectly
outlined. And judging from her confident smile,
she knew exactly the effect her well-curved body had on
every man in the bar. She was not mistaken.
Every guy in
the joint nearly choked on his drink.
Their eyes bulged and
they licked their lips with desire.
The woman made a point to walk very slowly to
a billiards
table where she found 5 balls resting. Picking
up a pool cue,
the woman showed an experienced stroke
as she calmly cleared the
table.
She ignored their stares, but
her whimsical smile suggested she knew every eye in the room
watched every move she made.
Next the woman sauntered down to the far end of the
bar. She sat there alone for what seemed like an eternity.
Each man reached for his
drink and silently wondered if he had the balls to make a
move. Even the bartender was afraid to approach. Finally one of the regulars summoned his wits,
stood up, knocked down the rest of his drink for a quick belt
of courage, then went
over to sit next to her.
He felt
himself tremble, but it was now or never. It was time to
make his move.
"Hey Honey,
you're looking good tonight. Real
good. Say, answer me a question: how
do you manage to get into such tight pants?"
She
swiveled on her stool to take a good look at him.
"A gin and tonic is a
damn good place to start."
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The Legend
of the Four Palms
Rick Archer's
Note: Back in 1986 I
often visited a very
nasty club on the wrong side of town.
Every
Sunday night I drove over to
Telephone Road in
pursuit of the best blues music I have ever
heard in my life. I noticed
the place had some rough characters, but they
didn't bother me, so I didn't pay them much
attention. I was there for the music and
the Whip Dancing. The Four
Palms quickly became my favorite place
to dance.
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To my
dismay, the Four Palms closed a year
after I started. I was absolutely crushed.
It isn't often you find something this bad turn out
to be something this good. The more I thought
about the place, the more I missed it. Then I
had an idea - Why not have a dance party and pretend
the party is being at the Four Palms?
So that's how the Four Palms
served as my inspiration to create the SSQQ
Sleazy Bar Party. It was a good idea -
the first party was a huge success. As details
of the event spread, the concept was copied at other
places here in Houston and up in Dallas too.
It turns out that being bad is lots of fun! If
you want to read a story that is sure to make you
smile, please read the
Story of the Sleazy Bar Party.
I heard some strange rumors about the place.
However I never saw anything to confirm the rumors.
Whatever had happened here was surely long gone by
now. Then in 1986 I
found an article in the newspaper that blew the
secret wide open. I was amazed that a reporter
had even been allowed to publish this story.
All the dirty laundry was there for everyone to see.
At the time, I stuck the article in some
folder. By chance I ran
across the article again in 2008.
Good grief! A blast from the past! I
could not help but grin. I
wasted no time posting the 1986
article about the Four Palms on my web site. After all, if it weren’t for the Four Palms,
this party would not even exist.
After you finish the
Story of the Sleazy Bar Party, be sure to
read
The Legend of the Four Palms.
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All
Sorts of Whip Stories!!
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Did
you know the second SSQQ
Sleazy Bar Party was raided by the
Bellaire Police?
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Do you know
the dark secret of the wicked
Four Palms,
the bar that inspired this party?
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Did you know the
Dirty Whip originated as a "Pickup Dance" in
smoky bars across Texas?
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Aren't
you curious to know why the first
Sleazy Bar party nearly didn't get off the
ground?
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What
Texas State Park was the Mecca of the Whip back in the
Sixties?
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Did you know that after Rick got
slugged in a dance class he went Whip Dancing every
night for seven months in a row?
201 Nights of Whip Dancing
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Crash
Courses
7-9 pm
$15 Person, $25 Couple
To Register, just show up ! |
SPECIAL FRIDAY
NIGHT CRASH COURSE (7-9 pm)
LEGEND OF
THE HOUSTON WHIP
- Mario Robau
Until
West Coast Swing came to Houston in the Nineties, Whip
was the dance that dominated the Houston
area. Many people have heard of the Whip, but aren't
quite sure how it works or whether it is worth bothering to
even learn.
Let's put it this way - all professional dancers learn the
Whip. They learn it for a specific reason - the Whip
is Hot. Any dance that encourages a woman to move her
hips is totally worth learning.
There is no one more qualified to teach the Whip that Mario
Robau.
This workshop will cover the history of the Whip, the
evolution of the Whip, the woman's hip motion, and the men's
double-resistance leads.
After this workshop, you will begin to understand what the
fuss is all about.
SATURDAY NIGHT: BEG
WEST COAST SWING
- Patty/Joe
Whip and its
companion dance the West Coast Swing are the two featured
dances at this annual party. If you know next to nothing,
obviously you don't have time to
master the dances, but you will learn enough in this crash
course to thoroughly enjoy the evening!!
SATURDAY NIGHT:
EAZY SLEAZY WHIP -
Rick
Prerequisite: a dirty mind, but limited
Whip/WCS experience
This is the class
to take if you do not have
a partner; we will be switching partners in this class.
Whip and West Coast Swing are the two featured dances at
this annual party. If you know a lot of WCS, you can hang
with the really nasty people in Rick's
Workshop, but if you are a beginner or don't have a partner,
you can still get enough training in this
class to misbehave on the dance floor
later on.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
THE
DISGUSTING SLEAZY BAR WHIP WORKSHOP -
Mario
Prerequisite: COUPLES ONLY!!
NO SWITCHING
For students who
have completed Intermediate Whip/WCS, you can take this
class. Otherwise, you don't know enough. Since
we won't switch partners, you can bluff your way in if you
want, but don't expect anyone to bail you out.
This is the hard stuff.
Leather on Leather, Belly to Belly, Bump and Grind, Get Down
and Dirty.
The SSQQ Sleazy
Bar Party returns us to the origins of the
Dirty Whip,
a nasty dance that originated as a
pick-up device at the
worst dives and honky-tonks on the blue side of town.
The moves taught
tonight will indeed
be quite sleazy. That said,
your
biggest challenge will be to see if you can manage to keep from
laughing long enough to learn the patterns.
SATURDAY NIGHT: BEG
C&W: TEXAS TWOSTEP - Robert
Prerequisite:
Ability to Walk
The
Texas Twostep is the most important Country and Western dance. It is easy
to learn and fun to use. From George Strait's "Fool Hearted
Memory" to Shania Twain's "Holding onto Love", the Twostep
is used to a wide variety of C&W music.
When
you live in Houston, Texas, you should get plenty of
opportunities where a little knowledge of the Twostep will come in pretty
handy. And don't forget the Twostep is a fixture at Rodeo time. Come
learn the fundamentals of this famous dance !
Sorry,
nothing Sleazy in this course. Too bad.
SATURDAY NIGHT: INT
TWOSTEP: CIRCLE TURNS - Linda
Prerequisite:
The Ability to Twostep and
Polka ahead of time.
This
is an intermediate course for students who have already had our Beginner
Twostep/Polka course. This course covers the tricks behind multiple
clockwise and counter clockwise Circle Turns. It is great way to get girls
dizzy and lower their resistance. It is also less expensive and more
subtle than using booze. Hey, the Western crowd can be sleazy
too, right?
SATURDAY NIGHT: BEGINNING
WESTERN WALTZ - Jill
Western Waltz is considered the "Romantic" Western dance. The
stakes being what they are, no sensible man should ignore this important
dance!
Western
Waltz patterns are taken from Ballroom Waltz. Western Waltz moves are
simply Ballroom Waltz patterns that "travel" around the floor.
Later on expect plenty of Western Waltzes like “You Look So Good in
Love” and “Open Arms” to practice to at the dance party
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