[Tower Ravens] Practice and DERT Dates and music

Hello all, Thanks for all who came yesterday. We've got Ellie (tentatively) all the way through the dance, which is great, hopefully we can work on getting her more sure of where she's going and then dancing out! We also did some good work on Westerhope, and I'm happy that it is ready for C# festive gathering, with also an outing on the crawl before. Special mention for the stepping, this was really solid, no speeding up and stylistically all coming together - this makes me very happy! As I mentioned in practice yesterday, I would like to stick with last year's set of dancers as the main set for DERT. I think it's the strongest group of people to put out in the competition, especially as we're so used to dancing out together. Unlike last year I really want to push for a different spotlight set - also meaning other people are learning Piccadilly. Obviously we are a little limited by tumblers, but I am planning on doing some work on this, probably in the new year now! I will be talking to people about the spotlight asap. Traditional - just trying to establish what's happening with this. I think we can have an entirely separate trad set from the main, which would be great. Not only does this give everyone something to aim for on the day it also keeps everyone improving in the weeks running up to DERT. I will announce the team asap. DATES FOR THE DIARY Hannah please put the following dates on the sign up sheet for crawls, I'll fill in anyone from the doodle. January 19th (just main set, potentially shorter than normal) January 25th February 1st February 15th March 8th March 15th Day practices: 21st Jan and 11th March for the main set. As mentioned yeterday the focus would be for the main set but spotlight members would be encouraged to come along if possible, even if it was for half a day. Hannah can you contact the church re. using it on these days. As it is a Sunday we might be better to use Laura's hall if that is available? ATM we have no musician for crawls, for those in the loop on facebook did any of them seem particularly good? For those of you going to Martin and Hannah's birthday have fun, dance well, show those guys how awesome we are! I'm not here next Monday, Ffion if you could lead the practice I'll send you a separate email. Thanks all 😊 Becky