Hi all,

Thanks for three tiring but fun evenings of rapper!

Thanks to Laura for organising a great crawl tonight. I though the dances had a good balance of energy and precision and it was nice to dance in open spaces with good floors. The C# punters seemed quite impressed. The whole 'interacting with the audience' thing is certainly making an impression, if not the one we were hoping for - someone near the front of the set in the last pub said "I can't tell if they're looking at me. It feels a bit unnerving." At least we're being noticed!

We made a lot of progress on the new dance on Sunday and I've started to edit the gdrive document with all of the little decisions we made about timings and sword-handling. I'll try snd finish the edits by Monday. If you want to be geeky, take a look here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MxSLGDyWD2HE4MiG92Eneehd0Dvg6QqyBpklSqKWl8I/edit?usp=docslist_api

Unfortunately I can't be at practice next Monday as I'm on holiday/tour. For the new dance please can you teach Jo, Reesha and Kate windmills, fountains and popcorn? I think that will mean that Jo's done all of the figures. Reesha and Kate, which other figures don't you know yet? Sinead will know what she wants to do with Westerhope. If there's time could you also do some work on tumbling? I'd like to start doing a bit of tumbling every week so that everyone on the tumbling 'ladder' does a couple of tumbles they're comfortable with and then a couple of the next step: Tumbling by yourself, tumbling with swords, tumbling in the context of a dance, tumbling the wrong way around (without and with swords) and finally a double wrong way round tumble.

See you all in just under a fortnight!

Ffion x