Hi guys,
Ok, so we can't actually head to the pub, but let's give zoom a go. I've scheduled two meetings, one after the other. I don't think you need all the info. but I've left it in case. It should just be that you follow link 1 for 7.30 and then link 2 for 8.10.
This isn't compulsory but seems a nice way of people keeping in touch if they want to. If people want to try playing or singing feel free, we can join in! Primarily this is just a chat, if we can make stepping practice work we will 🙂
Zoom is totally free to download and should work on any phones or computers. Any problems let the whatsapp chat know and sure someone can help.
Look forward to actually speaking to you. The first rounds on me! Ahahaha...no, pour your own drink lol
Becky xx
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Hi All,
As you've probably gathered crawls and practices etc. are cancelled until
further notice.
We're looking into ways in which we can keep in touch to help maintain some
sanity - so look out for this if you would like to virtually hang out with
other Ravens! Possibly virtual practice / drinking when we've tested some
technology! (If nothing else maybe someone can post "Open the gate it's
fucking freezing out here" every Monday at an appropriate time?)
We've cancelled our hotel and train ticket bookings to DERT, just awaiting
refunds and then will ensure that anyone that paid for partners is
reimbursed as well as all the money returning to the Ravens account - will
be in touch once the monies land.
We were due to have our EGM on 6th April after DERT, however given the
current circumstances and the fact that this is usually used for a DERT
debrief and summer planning we are going to postpone until we know when we
can practice.
In terms of other events that have cancelled that we were going to attend:
DART Ceilidh - this will no longer be going ahead, C# House is closed until
the end of May and it just isn't sensible right now
St Albans Folk Festival - they are thinking of rescheduling in the Autumn
if that works out.
Surrey Docks Spring Fair - assume this won't be happening given the date
and everything.
Otherwise, I guess given we were in for a quieter Spring / early Summer
there won't be too many other cancellations coming in for the time being,
but will keep you posted if there are any updates.
Do keep in touch - we've got the Ravens WhatsApp to help keep us all
entertained and see you all on the other side once this passes.
Hannah
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From: Lynne Houston <lsh86(a)hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020, 22:15
Subject: [TR Committee] DERT 2020 - Sad News
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Hello All,
Following today's government briefing, it is with the greatest sadness that
I have to confirm what many of you may now be expecting.
DERT 2020 is cancelled.
Today's government announcement was a surprise, we had thought that we
would probably be able to run DERT, even in a scaled down manner, and that
our contingency plan of preparing to move the competition online was just a
sensible 'worst case scenario' to have, but now we cannot even do that.
We are setting up a virtual DERT Showcase (just for fun) which will run
over Saturday 4th April to keep everyone entertained while we aren't
allowed to get together. It is going to be much smaller than we thought as
we now don't have time to ask you all to record 6 competition standard
videos 'just in case'. Instead, what we would like is a video of your
choice, which we will schedule over the course of the day (not judged). We
would like everyone, including the Traditional, the Veterans, and DERTy
teams (if you have permission to post online videos) to have a video.
We are so disappointed for all of you, after all the work that goes into
preparing all your dances for DERT, the crawls, the practices, the mad
showcase ideas.
I can hardly believe that I am sending out this email, and I am so sorry
that this year's DERT isn't going ahead.
We have 576 cups in the spare room, and a box of t-shirts en route, badges
in production, gin being labelled, beer being brewed... We will be in touch
with people who have pre-ordered merchandise and post it out when we can.
I'm so sorry,
Lynne
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Hi all,
Hopefully you have all received the whatsapp and know practice is not happening.
The government has said we have to avoid unnecessary social contact and travel. As much as we all love rapper, I think we know it's not strictly necessary!
I'll keep in touch. We'll meet up when we can 🙂
Keep safe everyone and keep sane, whatsapp is always there for sharing thoughts and raven facts etc!
Love,
Becky
Hi All,
*Coming up this week:*
- Joint Crawl on Friday, look out for details from Hannorah. Please be
there ready to dance at 1915. We'll be wanting to be quite efficient like
last time to get through a good number of dances.
- Saturday Dilly day practice. Hall is booked 10-4, but if we wish to have
a slightly different time, am sure we can
Hopefully you've all seen Becky's email about Covid-19, if you have any
concerns, please let one of us know
*Sign-ups:*
*New:*
Very excitingly, Joanna & Larry are getting married on 15th June, and would
like us to join them in the evening for a dance and drinks. It will be in
Stoke Newington on 15th June (Monday)
*Cancelled*:
Firstly, please note the Thriplow Daffodil Festival is cancelled due to
Covid-19, but they would like us to try and go next year if we are free.
*Other*:
23rd April - Ceilidh with TR to fundraise for DART - please do fill in the
sign up sheet, the plan is that we do the interval sport... If you're able
to do the odd share of the post as well to help push tickets that would be
grand!
2nd May - Spring Farm Fair. The dance spots they had before were on the
hard ground near the craft stalls and in the field, we'd only be able to do
the first of these I suspect. From the sounds of it, it would be flexible
in terms of how much dancing, most likely between 12-3 sometime.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
*Kit*
If you have any kit issues please let me know - no matter how small. There
might be some small fixes to some things that we can arrange - including
sparkles for all! For things needing more work than we have time for, we
can arrange some swaps for competition time.
So far I have: Emma S (basically all of it), BS / KR sashes. Hannah TD
another bit of velcro on the sash. I think there are a couple of people
missing petticoats as well - though doubt we'll be making those before
DERT!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
Plan for next week: Fliss, Emma, Rachel and Hannah please read.
I'm not at practice next week, neither is Rachel-Anne, Katherine or Ellie.
I am going to leave you in the capable hands of Fliss, Emma, Rachel and Hannah who are all used to teaching and I think will manage to get you all busy! If Jo is around she is a good teacher too!
I'd suggest working on the alternative DERT set as well as obviously the main Westerhope DERT set. Outside of this please take the opportunity to work on figures you're not as confident on. For Emma R some work on Westerhope would be good and Emma H could probably do with 1 on Westerhope?
Alternative dilly work will need Fliss and Rachel so Emma you probably need to teach the other people (Hannah N I imagine you'll need to 3 for other dancing?). Emma if you can remain flexible and respond to both sets, Hannah can do some in-set teaching.
For alternative dilly:
I'd recommend filming this at the start so that those people can then look at it and figure out what they need to work on. There is the video from before which I gave these comments on:
Windmills: 2 turning a bit too quickly, their body turns round faster than 4
Single tumble: 4 needs to step for 4 with 2 and 3
Square display: Everyone went a bit rogue, Emma might be able to help with masking tape on the floor so you can judge yourselves.
Line up and down around needles: Make sure this happens at the same time, led by 3. And make sure you don't start too high on the line down.
Arches: 4 popeye arm
Tits: looking a lot better but still a bit frantic. Post tits 4 to try and move at the right time back to space, it is weird footwork!
Popcorn: Think high straight jumps and big sweeping arms
V displays: for both make sure it is all very neat. 2 and 4 need to position themselves around 3 at the end, with 1 and 5 need to be at a suitable distance. For the first v 1 and 5 want to make sure they don't go too far so everyone can fill in neatly between and behind.
Thanks,
Becky
Hi all,
Absences: Hannah, Martin, Clare, Rachel (we do have Will instead)
Friday stepping: This will start at 7/7.30. We'll vote tonight.
7-7.30 clog
7.30 - 8.30
I would like to start with 1x alternate Dilly set dance through. I've made some notes from the video on improvements which I'll go through first but don't worry too much.
Then: Dilly DERT team with HTD instead of Hannah. Ideally we can do some dancing all together, working on issues for team as a whole. From the crawl lots of things are getting better but we need to work on some basics like V displays.
Meanwhile. Fliss has kindly agreed to lead everyone else in Jubilee/Westerhope work. Please put a particular emphasis on ravens style as this is a work in progress. Emma did some good work on this last week so might be worth a quick chat with her.
Numbers I have:
Jubilee:
1 Jo?
2 Tori, Rachel-Anne, Laura? Fliss, Emma R, Hannorah, Jo
3 Laura
4 Tori, Laura? Fliss, Emma S, Miriam, Hannorah
5 Rachel-Anne, Fliss? Flo, Miriam
Westerhope:
1 Tori
2 Rachel-Anne, Fliss, Flo
3 Laura
4 Fliss? Emma S, Hannorah
5 Rachel-Anne, Fliss, Flo, Miriam
6 Rachel-Anne, Fliss, Miriam, Jo
Emma R I might have missed you learning something in Westerhope, sorry!
8.30-9.30 This will swap to the Westerhope set and the rest of us can swap to general Jubilee/Westerhope. Remember these sessions can be good opportunities to remind yourselves of long-forgotten positions.
Thanks,
Becky
