Hello all!
Hope you are looking forward to dancing on Sunday.
Please find attached the schedule for the day- we are on 12-12.15 and then again 1.45-2. They are aware it won't take us 15 minutes but I'm hoping we can do the two dances in each slot.
Please be there by 11.30 at the latest to ensure we're all ready to go.
There are changing facilities in a nearby Mallinson scout hut but obviously if we come in kit/partial kit that's a little easier. Please consider thinner tights as it's meant to be about 25 degrees! Also remember to consider a bottle of water and sun cream, I only say that because without reminders I forget stuff like that.
The park is near Higham Park station (about 10 minutes walk East): if you google IG8 9RB it brings up the park but the actual festival is near the lake which is closer than the postcode suggests.
A basic route is to get the overground from Liverpool Street to Higham Park which takes about 20 minutes. Obviously you may have easier routes. If anyone is planning to drive please let me know asap so I can try and reserve some parking.
Any questions let me know!
Becky xx
Hello all,
Thank you to everyone involved in the Open Practice last night, I think everyone who came had a good time and hopefully will be back again for more!
For anyone who wasn't there can I confirm:
1. There is no crawl this Thursday- don't try and turn up to one!2. There is also no practice on Monday as it is a bank holiday.
That means the next time we see each other will be at Higham Spring Festival 11-4 Sunday 8th. I'll email round a little more info next week.
3. A nudge for anyone who hasn't yet paid Sue for a. Pizza Express on the DoD and b. a Westerhope shirt if you had one. Please do this sooner rather than later!
Sue no-one has any concerns re. the constitution so please do go ahead and amend to your suggestions.
Laura S. can you please add the two girls from last night onto the mailing list? helenbrough(a)yahoo.co.uk and inthebrambles(a)gmail.com
>From what i can tell we will be getting the train to Ossett, I recommend people looking into this sooner rather than later. Do we have enough who wouldn't get some sort of discount to do a group booking? And therefore get you discount- we need a minimum of 3!--> to confirm you need to get the train to Wakefield and the bus to Ossett. There actually seem to be a decent number of buses but obviously if you arrive at 1 in the morning to wakefield you might struggle.
Katherine do we need to book camping spots?
Thanks all!
Becky
Hello all,
I'm not sure if people are staying into the evening for this or not? They'd like a rough idea of numbers as to anyone staying for drinks etc. in the evening after the dancing (I think so they have somewhere with enough space).
I'm assuming most people will want to head back but if anyone wants to stay please let me know so I can tell them. If people would prefer to stay let me know too! They only need a rough idea, so it's not a major commitment to drinking lolz
Becky xx
Hi All
Sorry to have missed practice last night. I'd been working all weekend so wasn't any use to anyone last night - I was asleep my 9.30! #gettingold
On a separate note, does anyone fancy going to see Kathryn Tickell on Friday at Kings Place: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/kathryn-tickell-superfolkus-coll…
Mac's working the next day so doesn't fancy going but I'm about to book tickets and wondered if anyone would like to join me?
If not a work friend is going so I'll tag along with her.
Hx
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Hi everyone
Firstly my apologies for not coming tonight. I'm not sure whether I'll be there next week either.
Could you please consider the following treasury items:
Pizza Express
Thank you to those who have paid for their share of the bill:
Kate, Laura S, Laura W, Hannah, Martin, Sue.
NB We agreed that the dough balls and service would be covered by the Ravens, but you need to pay for food and drink. Could everyone else pay asap, please, before we all forget what we had. Bill attached for reference.
Westerhope Shirts
I'm also looking for £10 from everyone who had a Westerhope shirt. Thanks to the following who have paid:
Joanna, Kate, Hannah
Constitution
Is everyone happy with the proposed amendments? No one has commented yet. Can I take it that silence means agreement? See attachments.
If you have paid for something that I haven't mentioned, I apologise. It hasn't reached our account. Please drop me a note to let me know. Equally, if you are owed money, please shout.
Cheers everyone
S x
Attached is the Pizza Express bill so those who came last weekend can
workout dinner costs.
Please pay into the Ravens account
Account: Tower Ravens Rapper
Number: 52567121
Sort code: 40-06-21
Many thanks
Kx
Also...
Steamchicken (containing Becky from Sheffield Steel) retweeted my retweet of the Open Day next week (how many layers!?!?) they also then mentioned that some parts of the band have a gig on in Soho this Sunday, if anyone was interested. I'll be away but the link is http://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/events/events/view/1045#.VxYdPfkrLmg if anyone fancies it.
Have a lovely week,
Becky xx
Hello all,
1. Thanks for a good character practice last night. Hannorah did an ace job of creating a character and how it would interact with Sue. Although it obviously needs working on I'd say we've tackled all the main ways that two characters would interact with the dance, so if anyone else was doing it instead of Hannorah we've figured out a lot of moves.
Obviously if anyone has any further ideas, or if anyone else wants to have a go just let us know and we'll see about spreading the information. I think ideally we'd have the two dancing out as soon as possible so maybe think about Highams Spring Festival? (8th May) although we see how everyone feels :)
2. Can I get people to confirm numbers for Ossett? I think there are some people I should have changed last night (Ffion??) but didn't write it down, unhelpfully. If you could fill that in it would be great. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Further to this we need to think about transport, At the moment return trains look to be about £80 (no discount) to Wakefield, leaving Fri night and coming back Sunday early afternoon. The team should be able to subsidise this no problem (shout up Sue if so!) There was some talk of driving instead, can those with cars available seriously consider this and figure out how many spaces we have and when you'd travel etc. If we could have the options sorted as soon as possible we can keep an eye on trains, we are around the 6 week point before travel which is meant to be cheaper so the sooner the better I think.
3. Next week is Open Practice, please share this to your hearts content on social media and please bring cake if you would like! Obviously if no-one new turns up we'll just have a normal practice :)
Ta,
Becky
P.s. I totally crashed on Sunday and couldn't face going through the photos, I will do this as soon as I get a chance though!
P.p.s. I've emailed St Albans, watch this space for news.
Hello all,
1. Firstly yay what an ace day! I had so much fun and it did actually feel like we got to know Silver Flame which is nice. It's also nice to see that teams aren't solid all the time, we're all just people trying to have a good time :) Again a massive thank you to organisers, Hannorah you're pub schedule was ace.
Ken took some photos which I'll go through today when I get back and put on facebook, if anyone wants to put anything on Twitter please do, saw some great stuff from yesterday (admittedly as I lay inbed this morning..)
2. Tomorrow we have a character practice so anyone who is interested please step forward! I had a chat with Simon Vaughan about it and got him to look at our dance and give suggestions of how a character (working with a tommy) could interact with the dance. He also made various points about a betty/character which were quite interesting, please see below:
Firstly he was totally on board with the idea that it doesn't need to be cross dressing, the important thing is that the betty is there for humour, they're basically just a slapstick character so after that it doesn't matter.
He also thought once we've figured out if someone's going to be able to do the interacting aspect with the dance there's potential for so many characters in connection with the tower that we've really got our pick- we had quite a long chat about inanimate objects, like a skeleton on a stick/wheels, or a raven hand puppet or someone dressed up as the tower (think braces to hold up I dunno, crenelations, and then wearing a crown and sceptre). I think this came from me emphasising we don't really have anyone to do the job, if you make it a physical thing, rather than an actual character it's easier for multiple people to take on the role.
In the dance:
Traditionally bettys come on later so he thought leave start totally blank and have the betty announce themselves during the square display (the first break in action really) although betty could also go through fountains but it's a short move now.
Running the opposite way round the spin- makes it look faster
Needles- you could have each character go through on opposite sides- i.e. betty mirror tommy.or you could have some sort of chase scene- betty runs through and tommy shouts you can't go through there! OR visa versa with betty saying but you said we weren't allowed to dance.
6 sword lock could be done by betty or tommy- if betty had run through needles and tommy shouted at her then if tommy was 6th person betty could get angry.
Now, depending on if we had a character or an inanimate object would change the dynamic. He did think if it was an inanimate object Sue could hear them talk but no-one else can- 'what was that skeleton? Don't be so rude!!' or whatever..
Simon has also discussed it with Clive who are fully on board with helping characters and have offered to do some sort of character workshop to help with the 'clown' and dance interaction elements. I think we'd be best to have a go ourselves and come up with lots of ideas and then, if we're struggling, take them up on the offer.
Hope that all sounds ok, we by no means have to try all or any of the ideas and if you have any ideas please come along with them tomorrow! You don't have to be the character to have the idea :)
See you tomorrow!
Becky xx
