The new dance goes like this:

Walk on with swords down
Sweep them up one by one 
Walk round clashing on 2 and 4, swords onto shoulders on 5 and snap down on 8
Single guard starting on next beat
Open ring
Number 2 ring
Lock and walk round twice to display
Coach and horses for Mary anne
Cramper
Lock for nut
Fast and loose
Choker
Open ring for windmills
Half a windmill into outward facing ring
Lock and walk round into straight line 
Out

There's a version of this in a previous email from a few months ago with video links. If you search one of the figure names in your inbox it will probably come up!

Hope this helps everyone,

Ffion x


On 10 Sep 2013, at 10:26, "Lindsey Kennedy" <kennedy.linds@gmail.com> wrote:

Would it be possible to send me the figures in the new dance - so I can learn it all before next practise?
 
If it's ok with you, I might post the figures up on the google drive, so we can all access them/they're their for record.
 
Cheers!


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Ffion Mair Dean <ffion_coch@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who came to practice last night - we did some good work on the new dance and got to meet Katherine, our newest member :-) We also got to see some nice new business card designs expertly created by Lindsey.

Thrales can't get a team together for the Bermondsey Street festival on Saturday 21 Sept so they've asked if we'd like to do it. It's a paid gig - £70. Afternoon  - approx 1 - 5pm. PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR AVAILABILITY ON THE SHEET RIGHT NOW as they need to know soon. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AvM6rY7GMmOGdF9vYVIwaXBmXzViSzM5eW84aWRjX0E&rm=full#gid=0

Other dates issues - 1) please add your availability for the cinqufoil day of dancing. 2) We need to set a date for the AGM. Following on from last year it should be Monday 18 November. We need as many people as possible to be there so we can have a good meeting where everyone's views are taken into account. I've added the date to the spreadsheet. If not many people can commit we can explore other dates. 3) Patrick asked at Thrales' post practice pub outing last night and the general consensus was that it would be ok for us to have our cinquefoil day on 9 Nov as long as we don't got to the same areas as them - Soho in the day time, Southwark in the evening. 

There are now only 3 more practices until Tenterden. Please try and make all three practices if you're coming to Tenterden (which is most people) - we need to make sure 5 people can get through the new dance! If you've been in a team learning it please try and do some mid week mental practice of how the figures go. I don't know about you but it really helps me when Monday rolls round again. 

Finally, a reminder that The Foxglove Trio will be playing at this TOMORROW at The Music Box Folk and Acoustic Music Club, Paper Dress Vintage, 114 – 116 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AH.  7.30 – 11pm and I think we’re last. https://www.facebook.com/events/1401558180061613/. I'm also hoping to go to see The Teacups on Thursday at Islington Folk Club if anyone fancies joining me. 

Ffion x

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