Hi all,

After a fun crawl on Thursday (see film of Flower of Forest dance http://youtu.be/pRnLIZV9aZg) and lots of holidays I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of practices and making lots more progress with this new dance. I've created a draft new dance which is at the end of this email. I'm sure it will need to be edited and refined but at least it's something to work towards. I know we haven't had our session on 'dancing in small and slippery places' yet but I think we should focus on the new dance as much as possible for the next month and make sure we do small and slippery before the October crawl. We'll have another new member tomorrow - an American called Anna who's done some rapper before. Maybe she'll be able to teach us some cool made up American figures! (New) Katherine, can you remember which number you were learning?

1 Sept -

Jubilee reminder with York people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura S, Janet 3) Kat B, Becky 4) Becky, Sinead, 5) Sue.

Beadnell reminder with York people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura S 3) Kat B 4) Becky 5) Sue

Teaching Anna: 1) Jo 2) new Katherine? 3) Rhona 4) Anna 5) Hannorah

New dance - go through the figures we haven't looked at yet: 1) Jo 2) Laura 3) Becky 4) Hannorah 5) Katherine - winlaton spin into needles into triangle lock, "jumpy figure" (don't worry, I know what I mean!)

8 Sept -

Jubilee reminder with Peterborough people: 1) Ffion, Katherine 2) Janet, 3) Becky, Lindsey 4) Hannorah, 5) Sue, Kat B.

Teaching Anna: 1) Jo 2) new Katherine? 3) Rhona 4) Anna 5) Hannorah

New dance - walk all the way through the dance

15 Sept

In this practice I'd like to focus mostly on the new dance - getting 5 people all the way through with music then teaching more people some of the figures. We might also do some work on stepping.

Recap on where we've got to with new members/new positions.

22 Sept

Jubilee reminder with crawl people: 1) Rachel, Katherine, Ffion 2) Laura, Janet, 3) Becky, Lindsey, 4) Sinead, Hannorah 5) Sue, Kat B

Beadnell reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Ffion, Lindsey 2) Laura, Janet 3) Becky 4) hannorah, Sinead 5) Katherine

New dance - getting more people all of the way through.

Teach new members/new positions another few figures.

29 Sept

Jubilee reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura, Janet 3) Lindsey, Becky 4) Sinead, Hannorah, 5) Ffion

Procession reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura, Janet 3) Lindsey, Becky 4) Hannorah, 5) Ffion

Perfecting (!) new dance: 1) Ffion, 2) Lindsey 3) Becky 4) Hannorah 5) Katherine

As always, please let me know if you can't be at a practice, especially if your name's on the list. I'm hoping we'll be able to have 2 sets going most weeks from now on.

See you on Monday!

Ffion x

DRAFT NEW DANCE

Start in inward facing ring facing the back

Connect to make open ring

Full windmill

Piccadilly circus

Breastplates (normal lock)

Nut

Winlaton spin

Make a line facing the back, step around 180 degrees

1 needles (http://youtu.be/UizsQCO-r7U 2'50)

Triangle lock (http://youtu.be/qJql6wj65EQ 2'55)

Walkround

1 and 5 do jumpy figure and Single tumble (http://youtu.be/rDDcsnyta7o 2) tumbler facing forwards

Tits/follower/follower/tits with T coming in for last tits

6 person lock (2xsmooth 8s turning left shoulder backwards), remove T

Walkround

Double windmills (T and B go under tumble and then come into set?)

Extra figure needed?

7 person corner

7 person lock