Hello all,
Please find attached AGM minutes, plus action points for individuals that I've tried to pull out from it, but I'm hoping people have fairly good ideas of what they need to do anyway!
Generally there needs to be a hand over of roles- this includes Hannah having access to the info emails and me handing over any ongoing correspondents/organising. I need to take on a lot of info regarding the dance from Katherine!
Tour organisers- plan out the next couple of months of crawls- where they'll happen and who is organising them. Maybe doodle poll potential dates for the pre-DERT crawls.
Kit- can we confirm if we have Janet's kit? Sinead if you read this does your new timetable allow you to come back? If not are we able to have your kit back until you're around to use it again? -Hannorah to find out the price of making a skirt at her local tailors - Laura S have you any thoughts on Westerhope kit? Have a lot more time at this point
Festivals- Hannah to ask re. Bromyard next year and to look into Chippenham - we can invite ourselves so think it would be a good starting point for us!
Longsword - Hannah to create a doodlepoll of potential dates for a longsword practice. One Saturday/ Sunday to give it a go and then see from there how we do
Ffion to send out an email asking inactive members if they still want to be on the email list, delete as appropriate.
My aim is to get to grips with the dance, discuss with Katherine/Ffion any ideas for how to develop Piccadilly. As well as working on the team performing a double jubilee as aim to do this at the showcase.
Westerhope- Laura S to consider plan for Westerhope - AGM discussion re. having a second Westerhoper who can continue the practice on the alternate weeks you're not there but following your plans of what you'd like to work on in the long term (please try and sort this at this coming weeks practice).
I am away for the next week and a bit so am leaving Katherine/Ffion in charge of next weeks practice (sorry Katherine, no retirement for you!) Also as long as Laura S is around I'd like the team to work on Westerhope.
Thanks all,
Becky
Hello all,
Big thank you for the patience with the metronome practice last night, although it makes me look like a total maniac I think it was very good practice and really proved some points about pace and really listening. I think if we keep doing that at a solid 140 we should get really comfortable with it and then the whole thing will be awesome [😊]
Special thankyou to Kate, I know how hard playing to a metronome can be, especially if the speed has ended up being faster than you're necessarily used to (as turns out our dance has always been faster in the second half!).
Kit - Sue made a very good point about joint jubilee for the showcase - do we have enough petticoats and sashes??
Please correct this list if it is wrong for what people currently have and will be dancing in the double jubilee:
Katherine: petticoat and sash
Jo S. : petticoat and sash
Hannorah: petticoat and sash
Laura S: petticoat and sash
Becky: petticoat and sash
Hannah: petticoat and sash (x2 for both??)
Laura W: petticoat and sash
Reesha: petticoat and sash
Ffion: petticoat and sash
Rachel-Anne: sash??
If that is all correct it's only Rachel-Anne who we need to sort out. I'm assuming she could wear one of the petticoats that Hannah has as the beauty of elastic is basically one size fits all! Not absolutely sure you have your own sash in which case are there any going spare anywhere? Or can we steal/convert a man sash?
Rachel I know you're gutted you won't be dancing but you'll be so preggers by then I don't think it's worth the risk. I want to work a way of getting you in for the final curly - and display at the same time as Sue, if that is ok with you? I know you were talking Sue last night about figuring something out so I'm basically leaving that to you. Potentially your sash doesn't need to be exactly the same so we don't need to worry about identical fabric??
Please correct if any of this is wrong so we can fill in gaps as soon as possible. Fabric is very limited!
Saturday:
10AM Westerhope Start. We're rubbish at starting with people dribbling in for the first half hour. Please, please really try and get there for 10 to get shoes on and be starting ASAP. Kate I know you're coming from far away and as musician we don't necessarily need you first thing, 10 would be lovely, if it's 10.30 it won't be a disastor or anything. Westerhope team will then practice solidly until 12-12.30 and then break for lunch. After this the DERT set will steal Hannah back to work on Piccadilly but Westerhope will continue to work on the dance. Potentially with some swapping in and out of people. Westerhope set I imagine will stop around 4ish, DERT set probably more like 6 (but we'll just have to go with the flow).
DERT set 12.30 arrival: I will be there for the entire day to try and help with Westerhope, if anyone else wants to do that please do come along, we know how useful spectators are! If not please arrive for 12.30 where we will have lunch and talk about what we want to do with the next few hours.
At some point (helpful I know!) I want to do double jubilee as we will actually have everyone there! The main focus will be getting Sue and Rachel in at the end (need to try and remember what we did that one time..) and just practice that a few times till we feel confident. And then do the dance through a few times together with the ending. I will also look at the numbers available and try and figure out sets so we can practice in those sets and make sure they're fairly balanced.
Hannorah - I'm sorry to hear about your chest it sounds awful! Let us know if you can't make practice on Saturday, there's no point hurting yourself further.
Hope that all makes sense. I'm not sure if everyone is in a position to buy tickets to Kendal yet but if possible to get this sorted sooner rather than later we can figure out exactly how much we can give people back. If possible can we have them bought by next Monday??
Thanks all,
Becky
Hi All
Thanks to everyone who made the crawl yesterday night, despite transport disruptions.
I'll count the money and pay it in, to spare Sue carrying coins around with her back injury. So guesses please. But remember we only did four pubs and it was fairly slim pickings, so don't get carried away. :-)
Oh other thing to say is that as there's about another 6 or 7 pubs we didn't get round, or wouldn't let us in coz of the football, I'm very happy to re-do this area again soon.
Hx
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Hi All,
1. Crawl
2. May Day in C#
3. Sign-ups
3. DERT
1. Crawl on Thursday starting in the Jack Horner (probably) - so please
could everyone be there ready to start dancing at 1930 as usual. Watch out
for further info from Hannorah coming soon...
2*. May Day in C# *- having just had someone else ask us about this date,
I've had another look at the sign up sheet and depending on which way the
Maybes and No Replies go, we might have a team to do a couple of dances at
this. It runs 12-4 on 6th May and has various activities including a
ceilidh. Could everyone have another look at this one *asap *please as I'm
being chased for a response....
3. Other sign-ups - we've been invited to a St George Day event in Pinner
Village by someone who saw us at the Crown and Cushion. They can provide a
wooden floor and the day has various things like wheelbarrow races, punch &
judy and hog roast etc. Sounds like the main part is 12-5.
4. DERT - I think we finally have some groupings fro heading up to Kendal
on the Friday (see below) - if you're name isn't there then that's because
I think you've already bought tickets/will be there already/are driving -
if that's not true and I'm daft, left me know! If you could try and work
out a time in your "group" for travelling up to Kendal then we can get
these all booked up and stop thinking about them for now. I think for
coming back on the Sunday we could aim for the 1302 (probably) or 1412
depending on how long anyone wants to stay- unless anyone has any better
suggestions? Trains are roughly hourly.
Morning - Sue (has a railcard)
Afternoon - Ffion (+Patrick? 2TGH), Becky (+Ken? 2TGH), Jo
Evening - Hannah (+Martin 2TGH), Reesha, Laura W
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
See most of you on Thursday!
Hannah
Hello all,
Afraid to say I've been off since Monday. I was hoping to be back in today but so far not looking likely and even if I get to work I wouldn't survive a rapper crawl.
Hannah should have the other set of swords.
Sue definitely isn't coming but Hannorah does an awesome job while in Tommy mode :-) she's said to keep hold of the money until Monday and then she can deal with it after that, unless you get really excited and want to count and bag it lol
I would suggest the focus is Westerhope with some jubilees so that everyone is dancing. You could do piccadilly but it relies on hannah converting to 3 so see how she feels! If someone could do some tommying for Westerhope, even just an intro that should do some good.
Sorry to let people down, hope all goes well!
Becky xx
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Hi All
Details for Thursday are:
1. Meet The Jack Horner - Tottenham Court Road W1T 7QJ
Ready to dance for 7.30.
Pubs after that are likely to be some/all of these:
2. Rising Sun - Tottenham Court Road
3. Marlborough Arms - Torrington Place
4. One Tun Goodge St -
5. Crown & Sceptre - Great Titchfield Street W1W 6SD
6. Yorkshire Grey / Langham St -
7. Tower Tavern - Clipstone Street, W1W 6BA
9. The Green Man - Great Portland Street NW1 3AU.
10. The Albany - Great Portland Street
11. Masons Arms - Devonshire Street, W1W 5EA.
See you then.
Hx
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