Hello,

After the practice on Monday we also discussed the dance we should do. Everyone at the pub at the time agreed this dance should be both interesting and achievable. Hannorah has said she finds it helpful to watch youtube videos of other teams doing the same figures so I've put links after every figure. I've also tried to suggest a few Tommy things to think about feel free to throw other ideas in so we can come up with something good for Sue / Janet to say on our crawl.

Tommy to announce that there is going to be rapper dancing taking place and that it's part of the tradition for her to sign a song...

Walk on to a circle Meanwhile Tommy will be singing a song. The traditional one with 'incarcerated' instead of 'born and bred' etc seems to work fine.

Swords up, step for 8 and clash on 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgES9_OiMTE&list=UUfBbgQGddiVyGbdyNMDBUlg beginning

Walk the dog (can't find a video of this one) Chance to say something vaguely sensible about us - we're from London and are a new team etc. 

back 8 into figure of 8 something like this ;-) http://youtu.be/kbCI8fJnbDY?t=11s

(out into an open ring)

Glass & Haymarket into coach and horses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akuUc3jmTRk&feature=share&list=UUfBbgQGddiVyGbdyNMDBUlg 1'45 - 2'00 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFB-CJ7Gmh4&list=UUfBbgQGddiVyGbdyNMDBUlg 1'25 - 1'45 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgES9_OiMTE&list=UUfBbgQGddiVyGbdyNMDBUlg 1'10 - 1'45

Flying pixies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LchZMM4nf9E&NR=1 3'28 - 3'48 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hFA7-xryY 0'28 - '45. Could refer to it as flying ravens or make a joke about how we're supposed to fly in this figure but ravens can only hop?! Could also draw attention to our fantastic swirly skirts. Also a chance to do a naming the team joke. Can we think of something original and London / bird themed?

Lock, display. http://youtu.be/kbCI8fJnbDY til 1'22. Encourage the audience to make lots of noise for lock - at DERT can make sarcastic comments along the lines of 'I bet you haven't seen anything like this before'.

Spin. 'The louder you shout the faster they'll go' / joke about ravens only being able to fly in one direction.

(out into a walk round) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXDBVS5XpMM 1'05 - 1'10

Hoops http://youtu.be/_ON5OWehABA till 2'00 (though not with the bunched up bit before displaying) Is there something we can liken the hoops to e.g. a particular bridge in London?

Tits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hFA7-xryY 1'15 - 1'29.  'Now we'd like to show you our tits' - perhaps this is a little crude?!

Curley and 6 person lock http://youtu.be/tvr2bSIxOkw til end but without the letting go of the sword but and into a normal lock. Opportunity for audience participation by pulling some people through the set.

We will be crawling on Thursday 24 January. Hannorah is going to email Thrales to ask them if we can borrow a route. I would like to try and do this dance on the crawl. It would therefore be good if everyone can do a bit of homework and think about what they do in these figures before Monday and for Rachel to start learning the calls.

It's been suggested that we have a slightly longer practice on Monday. I can try and get there at 7.20 to make sure the room is ready to dance in by 7.30 and I'm happy to go on with the practice until 10pm if there are enough people who want to stay a little longer.

At the moment it looks like we'll be able to have the church hall from 1.30pm on both Sunday 3 Feb and Sunday 10 Feb. This isn't yet 100% confirmed but please pencil in these two afternoons. We'll probably finish at around 5.30pm if that's OK with everyone.

That's all from me for now.

Ffion x