8 Jul
2014
8 Jul
'14
3 p.m.
Very detailed plan. I like it.
If we are going to teach it to just 5 people - we need to be very clear
about the plan.
I would not enjoy being not one of those 5, but asked to turn up in case
every week - just to sit on the sidelines for some of the time. If 5 people
commit they have to be there every week- and the people not involved should
be told that they do not need to attend for specific weeks so they can make
other arrangements if necessary.
The difficulty is that we have not consistently had enough people for two
sets. And if we don't make two sets, its the people who aren't one of those
5 that take the hit with having to walk through from different numbers, or
sitting at the side. The result is that people get frustrated, and then
don't attend practise the next week.
My worry is that if we do this now, and then again for DERT then quite a
few people are going to be spending a significant amount of time on the
sidelines.
I personally feel that the people who turn up every week should be the ones
who get priority dancing - not people who have signed up for an event in
the future.
Would it be possible to move some of those items into the weeks you aren't
there? For example tumbling practise for pillars, getting the basics for a
couple of the new figures learnt? We can't do styling until we have
everything knitted together, but we can work on getting the right people in
the right places dancing them confidently. This might open up more time for
learning the final dance.
Lindsey
On 8 July 2014 13:43, Ffion Mair <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Thanks to everyone who came to the gig last night. It was really nice to
see you all there and fun to do a dance. I think the audience enjoyed it
too!
I've been looking over our bookings for the rest of the summer and have
come up with the following potential plan of action.
*The plan*
*14 July*
Jubilee alternative positions: 1) Jo and Katherine 2) Hannorah, 3) Kat B
4) Becky 5) new Katherine
Jubilee: working on the lock if there's no tumble
Polish Beadnell with people who've missed practices/who want to do more
Beadnell practice.
*21 July*
Polish Jubilee alternative positions: 1) Jo and Katherine 2) Hannorah, 3)
Kat B 4) Becky 5) new Katherine including tumble practice for Kat.
Practice dancing in small spaces and strange surfaces (outside) especially
for those on next crawl: 1) Rachel, Katherine 2) Laura, Janet 3) Becky,
Lindsey 4) Hannorah, Sinead 5) Kat
*28 July*
I will be on holiday. Anyone want to take on teaching duties?
*4 August*
I'll be on a different holiday! Volunteers?
*11 August*
Bit of Jubilee, bit of Beadnell, start looking at new dance again?
Beadnell - teach Katherine 1 and Becky 4
*18 August*
Sorry, I'll be on yet another holiday!
*25 August*
bank holiday = no practice
*1 Sept*
Jubilee reminder with York people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura 3) Kat B, 4)
Becky, Sinead, 5) Sue
Beadnell reminder with York people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura 3) Kat B, 4)
Becky, Sinead, 5) Sue
Working on new dance - remembering the figures we invented
*8 Sept*
Jubilee reminder with Peterborough people: 1) Ffion, Katherine 2) Janet,
3) Becky, Lindsey 4) Hannorah, 5) Sue, Kat B including getting both Lindsey
and Becky to tumble off Katherine & Sue and Katherine & Ffion.
Beadnell reminder with Peterborough people: 1) Ffion, Lindsey 2) Janet,
Katherine 3) Becky, Kat B 4) Hannorah, 5) Sue
Working on new dance - knitting invented figures together into proto-dance
*15 Sept*
Dancing proto-dance and making necessary adjustments.
*22 Sept*
Jubilee reminder with crawl people: 1) Rachel, Katherine, Ffion 2) Laura,
Janet, 3) Becky, Lindsey, 4) Sinead, Hannorah 5) Sue, Kat B
Tightening up new dance
*29 Sept*
Jubilee reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Rachel, 2) Laura 3)Ffion? 4)
Sinead, Hannorah, 5) Katherine
Beadnell reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Ffion, 2) Laura, 3) Rachel, 4)
hannorah, Sinead 5) Katherine
Procession reminder with Tenterden people
Perfecting (!) new dance
*New dance*
As you've probably guessed from the above, I'd like to aim to get the new
dance out at Tenterden. It's quite a tall order as we've still got a lot to
do on it. I feel the most efficient way of writing and learning the dance
would be to concentrate on having 5 people who will be at Tenterden learn
it first and then they can teach everyone else how to do it in October. I'm
aware this isn't very egalitarian so if you feel strongly that we should
teach the dance to everyone who turns up each week let me know. If a lot of
people feel this way I think we'd have to shift the target dance out date
to the October crawl or even Thrales day. Thrales day has to be the
ultimate deadline or else we'll have to do Beadnell as our second dance!!
If we *are* going to focus on 5 dancers getting the new dance right
first, that mean those five need to be able to commit to all of the
practices in September. It also means we need the right numbers. At the
moment we have 6 dancers signed up for Tenterden (not in the positions I
hoped for!) and lots of maybes. So... if you're in a position to upgrade
from a maybe to a yes please do so!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
As always, if your name's on the list for a particular day, please let me
know asap if you know you won't be there. Equally, if your name's not on
the list please still turn up!
Thanks,
Ffion x
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