Hi All,
Please find the draft minutes from Monday's AGM attached. If you have any
comments on anything that I have missed or is incorrect, please let me know
by 1st December.
Thanks to everyone for signing up to things as well on Monday - looks like
there are a couple more things for us to go to now! I'm away on Monday, but
please don't forget to check the sign-up sheet if you haven't already. Our
next event will be Mabel Day on 3rd December. Transport options for this
are the Oxford Tube - takes about 2hrs and costs £14/£18
(discounted/undiscounted) or the train from Marylebone is £16.95 with
either a groupsave or a railcard discount or £25 without a discount and
only takes 1hr. We can discuss these when I'm back on 27th and book tickets
that week as the prices won't change. If you have any strong preferences
please let me know. I personally feel that the train would be the better
option, especially as we'd all get home earlier! Will look into times in
more detail before 27th Nov.
Thanks,
Hannah
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Hi All,
We are officially registered for DERT! woop woop!
Apologies for taking a while to get round to sending this... As you
hopefully know we are crawling around Islington-ish this evening starting
in the Angelic - please be ready to dance by 1930.
Our next thing is Mabel Day! Sunday 3rd - the Blenheim opens at 1100 with
dancing starting at 1200. I propose to aim to be there around 1130 (but
please make sure you are there by 1145 latest). More info on the day here:
Transport - we have decided to take the train from Marylebone station as it
takes much less time than the bus and only costs a tiny bit more. For
trains I have Laura, Sue, Anna and myself. Please get to Marylebone for
0945 as we will be on the 1005 train. I will buy group save tickets for us.
As there are four of us, if anyone thinks they might need/want to rush
off/stay really late, I can book 3 of us on the group save and one on a
rail card - please let me know by Saturday 5pm if you think that you might
not want to travel back with us otherwise I'll just put all four on the
group save. (sory Laura, I think you're stuck on a group save regardless)
Trains back to London are every half hour, so nice and easy!
For the rest of us, I have Emma and Hannah TD making their way from
Coventry and Hannorah driving. Kate are you driving as well (seem to
remember you did last year)?
Sign-up sheet as always is below. Please check over it - still need a few
more people to fill in their availability for our December Crawl -
approaching fast now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
See you all later/Sunday/Monday.
Hannah
Hello all,
Please can the following people look at the dert crawls doodle and respond!
Hannorah, Rachel-Anne, Hannah TD
Rachel - I know you might still be in the decision making process with Dan, Arthur, moving house et al, but it would be good to have an idea soon so I can start making decisions re. teams, crawl dates and day practices etc.
Kate - I know you said you generally will struggle for availability. Are you basically a no for the crawls?
https://doodle.com/poll/rzefyddmxgspsyai
To all:
Please look at this doodle for availability of day practices. Ideally this is for the whole day (10-4 or something) but we have done later start - later finish etc. depending on availability. If you basically have the day free please mark as a yes, if you know you can only do certain times please leave a comment.
https://doodle.com/poll/24rbvr66fhzttrny
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Thanks all!
Becky
Hello all,
Thanks for a good practice last night. I think now that people are engaging their brain a bit more Jubilee is already starting to look a lot smarter and hopefully highlighting bits I simply haven't told newer members!
Westerhope seemed to be coming along nicely with people having a go at new positions (correct me if I'm wrong) but I have these people learning these positions:
Hannorah 1 (know you had to swap back to 2)
Rachel 2
Hannah TD 3
Emma 4
Anna 5
Some good running through ready for the crawl of Piccadilly as I know we haven't always had the numbers to run through it very well.
Remember this Thursday to meet at The Angelic (N1 0RJ) ready to start dancing at 7.30. If you're going to be late please message before 7.30 so we know if we can do the first dance.
Hannah should be arranging transport to Mabel Day - for those I don't see on Thursday, have a lovely day! As there aren't huge numbers of you is shouldn't be that complex on the day - Hannah will be in charge so listen to her when it comes to when to dance/eat/drink up etc 😊
Next week we will be prepping for the festive gathering at C#. I'm actually not here the practice after so i will leave instructions as to what to work on ready for the dance out.
Thanks all!
Becky
Hello all,
Please turn up 15 mins early for clog runthrough (I should actually be there this time!)
We will be running through dances for crawl this Thursday (Nikki is coming back to play for us so we're safe there) and Mabel Day on Sunday.
Thursday we will be doing Jubilee and Piccadilly so we'll go through both of those. Mabel Day will just be jubilee, but we will run through these with the right people for Sunday.
I assume we'll have Rosie again who we'll continue to run through Jubilee. She's used to stepping as she's done clog in the past but it would be great if someone could run her through the different steps (4s, 8s, westerhope, break step, jonty etc.) as I won't necessarily have time to do this at the start.
Thank you to those who have filled in the doodle poll re. the run up to DERT crawls. Here is a reminder to everyone else to please also fill it in.
https://doodle.com/poll/rzefyddmxgspsyai#table
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We would do one every two weeks, don't panic!
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Thanks all 😊
Becky
Hello all,
Kate's struggling time-wise with the new job so won't be able to make this Monday (27th) or Monday 18th December - is anyone able to cover this? (In particular wondering about Martin as then we don't lose a dancer).
***we currently have no musician for Thursday's crawl***
Neither Kate nor Martin are free so if we want to crawl we need someone else. Has anyone got any ideas? Ffion I don't know if Pat would be up for it?
Going forward I think we need to look for someone who can provide a reasonable amount of cover for Kate as it looks like the reality is that long hours are going to make it very difficult for her to be in London in time for all practices and crawls. Martin does a great job of covering but ideally we need someone who wants to be part of the team. We'll discuss this on Monday - rack your brains if you have any bright ideas!
Thanks,
Becky
Hello all,
This is a bit strange but someone who phone number ends 08 will have just
received an text verification code when I tried to sign in to the ravens
email account. If it's your number can you text me the code? Not sure who
it would be Hannah, Ffion?
My number is 07912508397
Thanks!
Rachel-anne x
Hello all,
Laura S and Ted are having their album launch this Saturday in Heath Street Baptist Church near Hampstead. Starts at 7.30!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Heath+Street+Baptist+Church/@51.5579327…
Sadly I'm away so won't make it but they always do a good performance so worth going to if you can!
Thanks,
Becky
Hello all,
Just a quick summary of tomorrow!
1. Absences: Hannah N, Jo, Rachel - is there anyone else?
2. Please turn up 15 minutes early for clog so we can run through it.
3. We have Libby coming along to sit in on our practice - she came to a crawl fairly recently and is researching how rapper dancing has evolved. Basically she just wants to watch how a practice works, as well as maybe talk to people as to how they got in to rapper etc.
4. We also have a new member coming.
--> due to 4 and 5 it might be an odd practice. We can hopefully do some hardcore work on Jubilee as we were discussing neatening that up, it depends a little on how quickly she takes to it, as well as running through Piccadilly and Westerhope.
Hannah TD please remember to bring the swords! And the same to whoever has the spares! Also Hannah TD if you could transfer the £25 for shoes that would be great.
Thanks all,
Becky
