Hello to those who have had their shoes resined.
You'll be pleased to know these are done and ready for Monday. They came to £25 each (normally £30), and having forked out for 6 at once I'd really appreciate if people could transfer the money to me speedily!?
Shoes belonged to: Emma, Hannah TD, Hannah N, Sue, Anna (and me)
My account info is:
Rebecca Such
Lloyds Bank
12647860
30-97-70
If you could ping me a message to say you've transferred the money, just so I know, that'd be great. Should £25 be too big a chunk in one go please let me know and we can arrange something.
Thanks all!
Becky
p.s. going forward I think the guy will generally only charge us £25 so if anyone else needs it doing it should still be for that rather than £30 (Hannhorah I know you were interested so you can give them to me to get done at some point if you want, although your stepping is so loud I'm still not convinced you need it!)
Hello all,
Thank you for everyone's attendance and contributions yesterday, I think we got through lots of stuff! Those who weren't there please look to Hannah's minutes which should appear in the next week once she's had a chance to make sense of them!
I just wanted to have my attitude to choosing people for DERT made really clear so everyone is on the same page - if you have any thoughts or questions please do just get in touch!
The main DERT set is always chosen to best represent the team - ideally we have the best steppers and dancers who can show off our style and what we can achieve when we really put our minds to it! At the same time it relies a lot on each individual being able to contribute the necessary time and energy in advance, so as to best prepare. That means coming to the vast majority, if not every, practice from January to March, all of the crawls and all of the day practices (we have at least 2 plus a Westerhope one). Options for crawls and day practices will come soon. I know it's a long time in advance but it does help me in my decision making.
Other than the main set we are more flexible. As mentioned we will, if possible, have a different Spotlight set/some different doing Piccadilly. This would still only contain people that were confident enough to perform it well and who I thought could represent us properly, but it doesn't need the same intense time commitment in advance. Trad would ideally be performed by an entirely different set to the main set to allow practices to go ahead - I know Hannah being in both was tricky for both the Westerhope side trying to practice and for Hannah herself! Westerhope isn't as technically hard as Piccadilly, but it still needs alot of work to make it look good, if we were continuing it exactly the same as before practice time could also be spent on Jubilee and Piccadilly by the same people, if the trad leader thought Westerhope was good enough to do so.
Showcase - few ideas of what we could do but an emphasis on everone being on stage. Which I think is a great idea, it looked fab when we did it this time, although again it did take having everyone there on multiple practices to make it work.
More generally I know there are various people who want to learn new positions. I'm keen for this to happen as well, partly so everyone continues to enjoy dancing! At the same time I think we can all say that Jubilee is not up to scratch at the moment so before progressing people I'd like to take some time to get it neat again. It's meant to be as tight, energetic and precise as Piccadilly which it just isn't at the moment, so I will try and tackle that. I think as was said yesterday older members have got complacent as to how to perform it because we've done it for so long, and newer people probably haven't been given some of the finer details yet because we've been focussing on getting it out.
This is a video of Jubilee from DERT 2014 where we came 3rd in the Championship. It's not perfect but I think it gives a reasonable impression of the energy and snappiness we want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlCXZaYGzI
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I hope that all seems reasonable. If there are any questions or points which you disagree with me just give me an email/come and chat at practice. 2017 I think everyone would agree there was a wonderful team feeling at DERT, not everyone was dancing, but the support spectators gave was amazing, as a dancer it was so uplifting to look out and see everyone smiling and cheering!
Becky xx
Hello all!
Big well done for today, I got the impression we went down really well. Special thanks to Westerhope team, I thought we did a really good job on not a lot of practice :-)
Agm tomorrow. Please bring diaries as a good opportunity to settle some future events.
I have cups and serviettes, if you want cutlery or plates bring your own. I also have gin, if someone can provide tonic we're sitting pretty.
See you ready to start at 7.30.
B xx
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Hey guys,
I wanted to come along tonight to do this in person but doing that would
have locked Mike out of the house, which seems a little cruel. I am leaving
london, so I guess my short term haitus from the ravens is actually a long
term one :( It has been absolutely lovely being part of the team, and I've
really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for a whole lot of excellent memories.
I'm trying to set up a mixed side in Oxford, so maybe I will see you around
at DERT in the future,
I still have some kit, can I have an adress to send it to?
Bye for now!
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Hi all,
One of my tasks from last year's AGM was to get new business cards printed. 1.5 days ahead of the next AGM I've made this.
I couldn't use the version Lindsey made so this is a little different. It's got a wide gap around the edges for the bleed when printing.
Let me know if you spot any issues.
Thanks,
Ffion
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Hello all,
1. Sunday
2. Shoes
3. AGM
1.Just to confirm on Sunday what's going on. So Knight's Templar near Chancery lane by 12.15 at the latest. It's a bit Wetherspoons that will probably look a bit shut up, but it will be open!
Planning on dancing all three dances at the following positions - I have heard rumours that Whip The Cat are leaving at 3 so we might only do two dances, in which case we would drop Westerhope as it is the least confident.
Jubilee:
1. Emma
2. Hannah TD
3. Hannah N
4. Laura W
5. Ffion
Westerhope:
1. Becky
2. Rachel
3. Hannah
4. Emma
5. Ffion
6. Laura W
Piccadilly:
1. Ffion
2. Laura W
3. Becky
4. Hannah
5. Rachel
Apologies for those of you doing all three dances! If we are doing Westerhope we will most likely try and find somewhere to run through. It sounds ridiculous but their toilets are bloody huge so we might even manage it down there.
2. Shoes!
Next week we should have all the shoes to assemble for adding resin to. I already have mine and Annas, and Hannah N is giving me hers on Sunday. Emma is going to meet me at the cobblers with hers and Hannah TDs. Hannorah I think you're the only other person that needs it doing, if so can you bring them on Monday?
Obviously, if there is anyone else who wants them doing that is fine but I need them either Sunday or Monday!
3. Small note re. AGM. Please be there by 7.30. We won't be clogging as there's no point clearing the space and we won't have rapper shoes with us, so if we can aim to start at 7.30 we have a chance of finishing sooner. I'll bring plates and cups with me for everyone to use for snackage and drinkage. The AGM is a chance for everyone to have their say but we do have to get through quite a lot, please take a minute to look at the agenda to see if there is anything you specifically want to talk about. FYI to people who haven't been before, we bring booze, it makes the evening go by smoother!
See you soon,
Becky
Hi All,
Coming up this week:
Thrales Day! 12th November - pub opens at 12, dancing from 1230 until
around half four. Please be there ready to go by 1215.
AGM - Monday 13th November. Feel free to bring snacks and drinks. Will
email the agenda again shortly (along with last year's minutes), if there
is anything that you would like added, please let me know by Monday 12pm.
Sign-ups - the next crawl is 30th November. We could do with a few more
people - so please check your diary if you are a maybe and especially if
you are a no-reply... Don't forget to check the rest of the sheet as well
while you are there! (link below)
Updates to 2018 events
Silver Flame Crawl (17th Feb) - this is likely to be in Warwick/Stratford
on Avon. Please could you fill yourselves in for this one, as at the minute
we haven't had many responses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
Though you might appreciate this from Anne at the Dance around the World
Festival.
Hannah
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anne Leach <danceoffice(a)waitrose.com>
Date: 2 November 2017 at 19:37
Subject: [TR Committee] Thank you Tower Ravens!
To: Tower Ravens <info(a)towerravens.org.uk>
Dear Hannah,
Thank you so much for Tower Ravens’ wonderful performance at Dance Around
Dance Around The World 2017. We were all quite overwhelmed by the
outstandingly high quality of all the performances at the event. The
audience was certainly galvanised by Tower Ravens’ beautiful, energised and
vibrant performance. We heard many appreciative compliments to the flowing
grace of your speed and precision. Your obvious enjoyment was infectious.
We realise just how much work goes into preparing performances and we are
very appreciative.
We know that changing was particularly cramped this year and we are very
grateful for the gracious and accommodating way your group worked round the
challenges.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you personally for being our
contact and helping us with the arrangements leading up to the event.
It was such a pleasure to welcome Tower Ravens to Dance Around The World
this year. Would you please pass on our thanks and appreciation to everyone
involved.
With best wishes,
Anne
_______________________________________________
Tower Ravens Committee and Info List
info(a)towerravens.org.uk
Hello all,
Absences tonight are: Jo, Rachel and (I'm assuming) Hannorah. If there is anyone else please let me know asap.
We will be working towards Thrales day tonight, just making sure we're all confident at what we're doing, although don't think there should be any problems.
As well I'd like to look at an alternative to walk the dog as we all hate it. I don't think we actually need to do anything complicated but what we have at the moment never looks very good!
I'm going to see how people feel about Westerhope at practice in getting it prepped for Sunday. It might be ok but it also might be too soon to have it sorted.
7.15 for clog run-through 😊
Becky x
Hi All,
Please find the Agenda for the AGM on 13th November attached. Please let me
know if there are any additional items that anyone would like adding.
Also attached are the usual options for DERT attendance. Please have a
think about which option you are likely to be and I will pass a copy of it
around at the AGM for you all to complete.
Thanks,
Hannah
