I think this has got to be the first time in my life that February (February!) has seemed interesting and exciting, because there is so much to look forward to!
There's a New English Dance in Town, the Webster Groves English Country Dancers.
We Hatchlings have been learning to call English dances along with our contra dances, and we've called a few of the easier ones at our First Saturday Hatchling Dances and the Youth Contra. The Dance Discovery group (bless their hearts) has made opportunities for us to call some of the more complex dances at open calling nights several times a year. But our local English dance already had a full roster of callers so we mostly got to call English in the living room. Not that it hasn't been a blast to call in the living room. But some of us are hungry for more, and the easiest course of action (incredibly) seemed to be to start a new dance. If there isn't enough pie to go around, make a bigger pie!
Here's the plan so far: we'll dance at the Monday Club on third Fridays, we'll invite different bands to play (as much as possible), and we'll have three callers at each dance. We'll post the dances we're going to do on our web site, and develop a core group of "repertoire" dances that most of the members of the community will be comfortable with (some easy ones, but some harder ones too).
The first three callers will be Bob and Kimberly and Kay. The first band will be the Tu'Penny Uprights (a band I'm in), which has been playing for Dance Discovery for about five years. We're working on some other interesting band options for future months.
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There's a New English Dance in Town, the Webster Groves English Country Dancers.We Hatchlings have been learning to call English dances along with our contra dances, and we've called a few of the easier ones at our First Saturday Hatchling Dances and the Youth Contra. The Dance Discovery group (bless their hearts) has made opportunities for us to call some of the more complex dances at open calling nights several times a year. But our local English dance already had a full roster of callers so we mostly got to call English in the living room. Not that it hasn't been a blast to call in the living room. But some of us are hungry for more, and the easiest course of action (incredibly) seemed to be to start a new dance. If there isn't enough pie to go around, make a bigger pie!
Here's the plan so far: we'll dance at the Monday Club on third Fridays, we'll invite different bands to play (as much as possible), and we'll have three callers at each dance. We'll post the dances we're going to do on our web site, and develop a core group of "repertoire" dances that most of the members of the community will be comfortable with (some easy ones, but some harder ones too).
The first three callers will be Bob and Kimberly and Kay. The first band will be the Tu'Penny Uprights (a band I'm in), which has been playing for Dance Discovery for about five years. We're working on some other interesting band options for future months.
M
E
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