Attention Dancers!
Weekend Dance Workshops
Saturday, October 31st, 2026
Each workshop lasts 50 minutes, with a 15-minute break between it and the next workshop. Please arrive early enough to check in and be ready to start promptly.
* Must be on a dancer package to participate *
Waltz with Expression
Time: 9:00 AM
Level: Full Bronze to Silver
Instructor: Jim Maranto
Location: The Dance Studio
Build a Beautiful Waltz Foundation
Time: 9:00 AM
Level: Beginning to Intermediate Bronze
Instructor: Jenell Maranto
Location: The Elvis Presley Museum Events Center
Tune Up Your Cha Cha Technique
Time: 10:00 AM
Level: Full Bronze to Silver
Instructor: Tammy Wilson
Location: The Dance Studio
Cha Cha with Confidence
Time: 10:00 AM
Level: Beginning to Intermediate Bronze
Instructor: Robbie Greenwood
Location: The Elvis Presley Museum Events Center
Refine Your Movement in Quickstep
Time: 11:00 AM
Level: Full Bronze to Silver
Instructor: Jenell Maranto
Location: The Dance Studio
Quickstep Made Easy
Time: 11:00 AM
Level: Beginning to Intermediate Bronze
Instructor: Jim Maranto
Location: The Elvis Presley Museum Events Center
Ice Cream Social
Time: 12:30pm
Following Lunch at 12:00pm
Location: Elvis Birthplace Museum Event Center
Sponsored by:
Cha Cha Routine Class to Little Egypt
Time: 1:30pm (2 hours)
Level: All
Instructor: Robbie Greenwood
Location: The Elvis Birthplace Museum Event Center
Youth Show Dance Competition
Youth (ages 25 and younger) are eligible to compete in a Show Dance Competition. Winners will receive dance education scholarships. Competitors dance to an Elvis™ tune. Remixes are allowed but Elvis™ must be the primary vocalist. Total routine cannot exceed 2 minutes, 45 seconds. Youngest competitors will compete on Friday evening. Older competitors will compete on Saturday evening. The actual age break will be determined when we receive all the competition entries. Show Dance Routine Music must be emailed to DWTKTupelo@gmail.com by October 1st.
We encourage youth to also apply for a scholarship to pay for the weekend. Please see the details in the online registration form.
Show Dance Spectacular
SATURDAY NIGHT | OCT. 31 | 7:00PM
dinner at 6:00pm
There is nothing more fun than seeing great dance performances! Our Show Dance Spectacular will have many fun and exciting performances to see!!
If you have a show dance routine you’d like to perform, please indicate on your registration form that you’ll be entering. The fee is $30 per routine. Routines cannot exceed 2 minutes, 45 seconds.
Show Dance Routine Music must be emailed to DWTKTupelo@gmail.com by October 9th.
The amazing hairstylist, Liz Gunter, will be available for all dancers!
Schedule your appointment today by emailing us at: rubyedel@gmail.com
$45 Hair | $45 Makeup
Elvis Presley™ Tunes by Dance Style
Elvis™ recorded over 700 songs and there are hundreds of remixes. For the competition, any song where Elvis™ is singing can be used.
Our official DJ, Matt Thomson has sorted some of these songs by dance style. This list is not all encompassing but can be a good starting point.
Bolero
• Love Me Tender
• For the Good Times
• Memories
• I’ll Remember You
• Always on My Mind
• Loving Arms
• Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues
• And I Love You So
Cha-Cha
• Fun in Acapulco
• Kiss Me Quick
• It’s Now or Never
• Little Sister
• A Little Bit of Green
• Rubberneckin’
• (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
• Little Egypt
• I Gotta Know
• No More
• I’m Leavin’
• And the Grass Won’t Pay No Mind
• Catchin’ on Fast
• Big Love, Big Heartache
• Let Yourself Go
• Because of Love
• Ito Eats
East Coast Swing
• Burning Love
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Good Rockin’ Tonight
• Hound Dog
• Don’t Be Cruel
• All Shook Up
• Hard Headed Woman
• Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
• Baby What You Want Me to Do
• For the Heart
• Too Much
• (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
• Once Is Enough
• Return to Sender
• (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I
• Jailhouse Rock
• A Big Hunk O’ Love
• Stuck on You
• Good Luck Charm
Foxtrot
• Fever
• Relax
• You’re the Boss
• (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I
• Trying to Get to You
Mambo
• I’m Leavin’
• Beach Shack
• Ito Eats
• Kissin’ Cousins
• Surrender
Nightclub Two STep
• I Was the One
• Soldier Boy
• You Don’t Have to Say You
• Love Me
• Hawaiian Wedding Song
• If I Can Dream
• Thrill of Your Love
• It Hurts Me
• The Wonder of You
• You Don’t Know Me
• Doin’ the Best I Can
• I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
• Hurt
• Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You)
• Can’t Help Falling in Love
• If Every Day Was Like Christmas
• One Night
Rumba
• Kiss Me Quick
• For the Good Times
• Spanish Eyes
• All That I Am
• Suspicious Minds
• I’m Leavin’
• And the Grass Won’t Pay No Mind
• A Boy Like Me, a Girl Like You
• Do You Know Who I Am?
• Tender Feeling
• Ito Eats
• It’s Now or Never
samba
• Bossa Nova Baby
• I’m Leavin’
• Beach Shack
• King Creole
• Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
• Surrender
• Follow That Dream
Tango
• Charro!
• No More
• The Walls Have Ears
• It’s Now or Never
• Surrender
Two-Step
• Smokey Mountain Boy
• Guitar Man
Viennese Waltz
• If I Can Dream
• Love Letters
• The Bullfighter Was a Lady
Waltz
• Just Pretend
• Until It’s Time for You to Go
• I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
• Amazing Grace
• Thrill of Your Love
• True Love
• Old Shep
• Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall
• Are You Lonesome Tonight?
• A New Day Has Come
• There Goes My Everything
WCS
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Santa Claus Is Back in Town
• Trouble
• Reconsider Baby
• Anyplace Is Paradise
• Steamroller Blues
• Clean Up Your Own Backyard
• Blueberry Hill
• Too Much
• Blue Christmas
• Merry Christmas Baby
• True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
• One Night
• Beach Boy Blues
• Down in the Alley
• Bringing Out the Elvis in Me
• Trying to Get to You
• Baby What You Want Me to Do
• Black Velvet