Hi All,
Coming up this week we have two crawls! Westerhopers - you're up tomorrow,
Hannorah has sent out all the deets. Piccadilly on Friday, Laura will let
us know soon...
EGM/Party - we decided last night that we will do this the day after DERT
(26th March) - I am intending to send the Agenda around for this tomorrow.
Watch this space... I didn't quite manage to write down all the people that
said they'd b able to make it, so if you can fill yourselves in on the
sign-up sheet that would be much appreciated so that we can double check
that we will be at quora (looked like we would be though!)
Sign-ups - thanks for letting me know about Faversham Hop Festival. Looks
like the Sunday should work fine. The next one I am being chased for is
12th May Brockwell Park. The person organising this seems to be incredibly
keen to have us as we weren't able to make it last year. I appreciate this
is the same weekend as another one so if you would rather only do one
please make it clear on the sign-up sheet - and fill in both so I can
figure out what we can do over the weekend. It might be that if we have the
people and enthusiasm we can do both and not necessarily need anyone to do
both days unless they want us to...
I've also added dates for some crawls after DERT...
Sign-up sheet here, as always:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for everyones continued hard work and enthusiasm! Both dances are looking really good, music sounds great, both character acts for each dance looking confident.
Westerhopers have fun on the crawl on Wednesday, we know you'll have plenty of space on the day so probably don't need to worry about small spaces to practice in or anything. I'm sorry I won't be there, my old lady knee needs more of a sit down than a crawl would allow! Dance hard, have fun, remember to allocate someone/ some people to collect at the end of each dance. I won't be there to chivvy from pub-to-pub so please listen to Hannorah/Emma when they want you to move!
Piccadillyers enjoy a couple of days rest ready to head out on Friday, videos of yesterdays dance look really strong!
Next week: as it is the last Monday before DERT I don't intend to do too much dancing. For Piccadilly I'll try and make a summary of any little things for each person to remember, and then we'll dance a couple of times - Emma you might want to do the same, I suppose it depends a bit on which Hannah will be around on the day. From experience the last Monday involves us making really random mistakes that worry us, even though we never normally do them. Any last sashes which need sparkling please bring them and make sure they're done. We'll confirm where we are staying in Sheffield and going to the evening venue etc. any questions please have them ready/email me or Hannah in advance.
POSTCARDS - I mentioned putting a postcard on each judges desk - turns out South Kensington doesn't have tacky London shops with suitable postcards so if anyone happens to be near one please keep an eye out and messgae if you've found something suitable! It needs to have someone that looks like Sue/Paul and ravens on. If no-one finds any I'll have a jaunt to the Tower as they're bound to have some in their gift shop or nearby.
EGM agenda to come out soon now that we've confirmed when we're having it
Thanks all!
Becky
Hello all,
Thanks for all the hard work yesterday. Both teams seem to have narrowed any problems down to tiny last bits to work on and both dances are looking great!
Tonight we will start with stepping and then the DERT set will spend about 10 minutes trying to figure out the end of needles as we got a bit stuck yesterday.
Then for the rest of the first half Hannah N will work on 3 in Westerhope in case of emergency filling in. Obviously if more time is needed then this can carry on into the second half of practice! Meanwhile I want remaining DERT set and Rachel to look at the triangle lock and, if possible maybe dance some of it with Rachel at 4 (but slower than normal!). I can't remember if Rachel has covered 4 before, I know she's normally 5 so, depending on that we'll either focus on needles and tits or try and run through the whole thing slower a few times.
Second half we'll divide into the two teams to continue normal practicing. I think from Piccadilly point of view it would be helpful to run through a few times with the musicians and characters all doing their thing.
Sue and Paul if you can spend the first half working out any tommy points you have so that you feel a bit more certain by the time we get to running through that'd be ace.
Again, thank you for the continued hard work everyone!
Becky
Hi all,
First off thanks for everyone coming out last night, we had a whole bunch of Ravens who weren't really well enough so a super huge thank you for coming out anyway!
As you may know the dancing timetable is finally out (yay). I've created the following map, although not 100% sure if everyone will have access so apologies if it doesn't work.
10.10 - warm up pub - The Church House (4 St James' Street, S1 2EW)
11.00 - Spotlight - the Cathedral (Church Street, S1 1HA)
11.50 - Dance 1 - The Dove and Rainbow (2 Hartshead Square, S1 2FD)
12.30 - Dance 2 - Shakespeares (145-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UA)
LUNCH
14.20 - Dance 3 - The Hillsborough Hotel (54-58 Langsett Road, S6 2UB )
15.00 - Dance 4 - The Ship Inn (312 Shalesmoor, S3 8UL)
15.40 - Dance 5 - The Church House (4 St James' Street, S1 2EW)
18.45 - Traditional - Yellow Arch Studios (30-36 Burton Road, S3 8BX)
20.46 - Showcase - the Cathedral (Church Street, S1 1HA)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/''/Sheffield+Cathedral,+Church+Street,+Sheffield/The+Dove+%26+Rainbow,+Hartshead+Square,+Sheffield/Shakespeare's,+Gibraltar+Street,+Sheffield/Hillsborough+Hotel,+Langsett+Road,+Sheffield/The+Ship+Inn,+Shalesmoor,+Sheffield/The+Church+House,+Saint+James'+Street,+Sheffield/Yellow+Arch+Studios,+Burton+Road,+Sheffield/@53.3881717,-1.4868724,15.25z/data=!4m50!4m49!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879787f358aecdd:0x7494bd5e42972485!2m2!1d-1.4702717!2d53.3829388!1m5!1m1!1s0x48797878d7060475:0x73b301a5a8ac0f51!2m2!1d-1.4693359!2d53.3831505!1m5!1m1!1s0x48797878f66ec697:0x2b2e5f5578a640a2!2m2!1d-1.4669843!2d53.3834196!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879787ea11961f3:0xa50d4f7b2b4a22d6!2m2!1d-1.4715179!2d53.3868268!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879788e33f1b83f:0xb73f590bb6827a30!2m2!1d-1.4888771!2d53.3951074!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879787d92f05ac3:0x233e133b0b4e1818!2m2!1d-1.476156!2d53.3885781!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879787f358aecdd:0x7494bd5e42972485!2m2!1d-1.4702717!2d53.3829388!1m5!1m1!1s0x4879787d32302cd9:0x7fabfd5b4c1f25c1!2m2!1d-1.47394!2d53.39186!3e2
Also, for anyone who hasn't twigged, the colour code means we are defo in the Premiership - we have nothing to lose!
Becky xx
Hello all,
Looking forward to the crawl tonight - remember it's Westerhope up until 9 when Hannorah needs to have left by, followed by Piccadilly.
Sunday: this is a day practice for everyone - please bear in mind we'll be sharing Pat but there is also a speaker and I have various recordings which are hopefully of some use as well.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Abbey+Community+Centre/@51.5393781,-0.1…
Please arrive for 10.30, the plan is to stay until around 4ish (depending when the hall needs to be used by the next people and how we're all feeling). Aim is for an hours break, obviously Piccadilly and Westerhope don't have to be at the same time but bear in mind Pat will, I assume, want to have lunch at the same time as Ffion so won't be available to play.
Sue and Paul if you can aim to arrive 1.30ish that gives us plenty of time to think about tommy stuff (Sue I think Emma may have contacted you re. if you wanted to come any earlier to run through Westerhope stuff - if not don't worry we'll discuss tonight!)
Piccadilly are hoping to do at least one dance out after this just to try and get any improvements firmly in our head. The only obvious pub is the one down the road but we might find 1 or 2 more. Please bring kit as we'll just look odd dancing in normal clothes. Tommy musician I wouldn't worry as much - Tommy's if you could wear a black top?
Thanks all,
Becky
