HOW IT ALL STARTED

Back in 1993, Kay and I at the insistence of Ron & Marie Toward, decided (with a bit of pushing and their help) to produce a videotape of Sequence Ballroom Dances, which Ron and Marie assured us would sell.

At the time we were very involved with the Combined Old Time Dance Clubs of Victoria and the running by them of an annual charity dance at Elmore in Central Victoria where the proceeds of each dance went to the Anti Cancer Council of Victoria.

Kay and are just social dancers, not trained in anyway and we were naturally reluctant. Anyway the tape got made and then we had to have a name for it. At the time Joy and Charles Montrose were dancing with our group and unfortunately Joy had been fighting cancer for some 10 or 11 years, and even after suffering almost an annual trip to hospital for operations, "Little Joy" as she became known, was still a vibrant, active, bubbly lady with and enormous zest for life and a fighting spirit that was second to none. Joy was an inspiration to many others in our group who were unfortunate to have contracted some form of this insidious disease.

Joy was everybody's friend but above all she was a Lady with the biggest heart I have ever seen.

By early 1993 it was apparent that Joy was losing the battle against her long time foe and so we decided it was fitting that we should name the tape "Dancing For Joy" and that all the profits would go to the Anti Cancer Council Of Victoria in their fight against cancer.

We presented the first copy to Joy prior the release on December 09, 1993 and on the 17th of March 1994, Joy left all the pain behind.

1700 copies and 8 years later we have remastered "Dancing For Joy"  and released a further eight DVD's of Sequence Ballroom Dancing,

Our sincere thanks and gratitude goes to all those who have supported and continue to support us.

Thank you and God bless each and everyone on you.

Don & Kay