Hello,
A few people have mentioned recently that it's about time we gave the 'new
dance' a proper name. For those who don't know, we made a decision at a previous
AGM that all of our dances should be named after tube lines, to reinforce the London
connection. Here's the full list of lines including some of the comments people have
made about them during pub discussions.
Bakerloo - sounds quite cool, has Sherlock connections. Have non-Londoners heard of it?
Central - bit of a boring, straight line?
Circle - this dance is circular, so this might work. However, we did have a proto-dance
once which we called the circle dance. It only got danced out at one event and does have
similarities with the new dance. The circle line isn't a real circle anymore :-(
District - have people heard of it?
DLR - a fun line (because of no driver and the roller-coaster bit coming in to bank). Not
a very nice sounding phrase.
hammersmith and city - sort of appropriate because we practise in the city but not a very
distinctive line.
Jubilee - already got a dance with this name!
Overground - not a real tube line.
Metropolitan - goes off to lots of places which would suit the dance, but not a well known
line.
Northern - suits the fact that the tradition comes from the North of England but this is a
straight up and down line so maybe doesn't suit the dance.
Piccadilly - suits the dance because the dance is as busy and mad as Piccadilly circus at
rush hour. It's a fun word.
Victoria - suits the fact that there are several Vs in the dance. Would have to call it
the 'Victoria line dance' because just 'Victoria dance' makes it sound
like we named it after a woman.
Waterloo and city - should reserve this for when we invent a really boring dance with only
2 figures!
If anyone has any other opinions feel free to share them by email over the weekend. Shall
we have a discussion and vote at practice on Monday? Reesha, do you have any TfL tube
characteristic insights which might help us?! I tried to find out which line had the most
number of overground to underground changes (because of the jumps and sweeps) but failed!
Ffion x