Hi All,
Few things for signing up to below. We will have our October crawl next
week (26th) and will have stepping practice with Ru on 30th October - so
have a think between now and then if there is anything in particular that
you would like help with with your stepping.
1. Shoes
2. Sign-ups
3. Festivals
1. Shoes - there are a few of us intending to buy/resole shoes, so we're
thinking of taking them all in bulk to the shoe person for soling (is that
even a word!) in the hopes of getting a discount. If those of you who are
thinking of getting new shoes could try and do it soon-ish, then we'll do
them all together. Likewise if you need a new sole let us know. Let me know
if you need the link again or anything. (Also if anyone needs a 7, there is
an old spare pair with Kate)
2. Sign-ups:
*Mabel Day* - 3rd December, we now have our official invite (it involves
extra cake as they will be 21!). Think we still have a couple of no-replies
to go...
*Martin&Hannah's birthday* 9th December - would be great if we can have a
team and will be fun crawling the pubs of London with Sallyport. Probably
be starting in a wetherspoons for breakfast and going from there.
3. Festivals:
*Chippenham *(25-28th May) - please could you fill this in if you would
like to go. If we want to go, I need to do the paperwork on Tuesday.
*Beverley* (16-18th June) - could do with a couple more for this one as
well, would be good to get it fixed in the diary and make sure we are able
to go as we deferred our invite from last year.
*NEW Kimpton Folk Festival* (7th July) - maybe a workshop and couple of
spots was the suggestion, though I think we can sort of say what we'd like
to do.
Sign-up sheet here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Have a good week!
Hannah
Morning team,
Just wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who came to our album launch on Saturday. Thanks to those who put time and effort into learning a new dance for the occasion. It went down so well. I enjoyed watching it so much that I was struggling to play my whistle at the end! Thanks also to those who weren't dancing but who came to support anyway. It meant a lot to have you all there with us.
There's a short film of the end of the dance on Facebook. Unfortunately it's mostly Thrales as it was taken by my dad and he was sitting on that side. Hopefully some footage will emerge from the other side of the room too!
See you all tonight,
Ffion x
Sent from my iPad
Hi,
1. Sign-ups
2. Ffion's album Launch
1. Sign-ups. Please could everyone take a look at the sign-up sheet for our
2018 potential bookings, particularly for:
- 17th Feb: Silver Flame have invited us on a crawl after we had such
fun with them when they came to London last year
- 25-28 May Chippenham (see sign-up sheet for details) - basically if
we want to go I need to do some form filling imminently. Please try to
respond by 24th October absolute latest (before is preferable). We had fun
last time, so if we do go, we should maybe try to stay a bit longer than
just a day.
- 16-18 June Beverley Folk Festival - this is last years invite
deferred as it was a bit late notice last time. It would be really good to
go. It's a really nice festival and the dance teams are organised by a
rapper dancer so should be pretty good for us! (It's also really easy to
get to) https://www.beverleyfestival.com/
Whilst you're there, if you are a maybe for the potential crawl dates of
either the 19th Oct or 26th Oct, could you see if you could make it a yes
or a no instead please? It will only be one of these dates in case you are
worried about having to do 2 in a row!
2. Ffion's Album Launch. Ffion's band The Foxglove Trio have released an
album! The launch is in Unity Hall, Islington. Doors at 7, music from 7.45
with a joint Thrales and Ravens rapper dance at some point! If you are
dancing (you know who you are!) - just a reminder that you need to be there
at 6 for a run-though. Change into kit afterwards.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi all,
Tonight's absences I have as Laura W and Rachel. Is there anyone else?
Thanks for various bits of feedback for the stepping practice dates. I'll recap at business and try and go from there for which suits the most people.
7.15 for clog runthrough. A couple of us went to Camden practice as they are doing the same waltz and John has taught the third step with the bananas as straight not bent (if that makes sense). I think it looks better as well as potentially being more accurate so we'll do that first to see what everyone thinks.
The first half we'll focus on Jubilee and Westerhope, depending who we have maybe piccadilly but that's probably a long shot. The second half I would like to focus on the Foxglove trio dance for this Saturday. Anyone not involved in this is free to leave after business as we may well not move onto anything else.
See you later,
Becky
Hi All,
1. Crawls and sign-ups
2. Skirts
3. Shoes
1.We need to reschedule the September crawl, and from the looks of the
sign-up sheet the October one as well. I have added 12th and 19th October -
those of you that filled the doodle in for the 12th, I've copied your
response across, but please double check anyway. Please fill the potential
October crawl dates in asap.
Whilst you're there, please fill in anything else you haven't already done
so. Please especially look at Chippenham, as if we would like to go we need
to do something about this soon. Details on the sign-up sheet. (link below)
Emma, Hannah and Anna I've hopefully added you on to the list for
everything now, so feel free to sign-up to anything you would like to.
Hannah - are you ok being Hannah TD on there? If not shout and let me know
- guess I'm going to have to add an 'N' to mine at some point to help avoid
confusion!
2. Skirts - Could we all try to remember to bring our skirts with us on
Monday please? Then those without kit can try them on to work out whether
any could be used as a template... Kate is going to see what she has in
stock in case any of that can be used (might only be 1 maybe 2 skirts
though...).
3. Shoes - hopefully everyone should have had the link for this if they
need it. I also need some new shoes, and seeing as I think there are a few
of us, it's probably worth trying to get them soled in a batch (maybe we
can get a discount?). So, if we can all try to get them soon-ish then I can
see about getting them all done together (that includes me remembering to
buy some too..)
Have a good week.
Hannah
Hello all,
30th October stepping practice might need to be rescheduled to the 20th November. Can anyone who is concerned with their stepping (either to make it Ravens style or just figure out any odd foibles we might have!) check the date. I also need to double check with Thrales that they're to lose Jon (Ru's husband) so knowing by Monday would be great just so it can be fixed in the diary.
Thanks all,
Becky
Hello all,
I'm actually coming tonight (yay).
Absentees: Laura W, Jo and Hannorah. Is there anyone else I've missed?
Things I would like to work on tonight:
New people in Jubilee, continue stylistic work, having each of them dance with a more experienced set to see if it feels different.
Westerhope work to give us more confidence, we can do this dance we just do it so irregularly we lack confidence and then go wrong! For dance around the world I'd like Rachel-Anne to do 5, obviously let me know if that doesn't sound ok.
Piccadilly I'd like to have Rachel and Rachel-Anne have some work on this. If Katherine could do 4 for some actual dancing? (Hip allowing). For Dance Around the World Katherine will need to be 1 so ideally we'll start working through that this week or next. If it's today Ffion would need to step in at 4.
Hope that all makes sense. Any cloggers please turn up a bit early so we can run through the waltz a couple of times.
Thanks all,
Becky
