I've realised that we've only got 5 or 6 weeks left until Christmas and we've got a lot to get done in that time! In general I think the priorities should be 1) getting 5 people ready to do the new dance on the crawl and/or Mables Day, 2) getting Kate and Reesha ready to dance the Jubilee out, 3) experimenting with trad dances and deciding which one we want to do.

New dance - triangle walk round to end and add to previous section (walk round, jumps, 2 tumble, tits, follower, follower, tits with 6, lock with 6, walk round, windmills, double tumble, open ring, glass, popcorn, lock, out)

First half - Work on Jubilee with Kate and Reesha

Second half - work on trad dance figures

Apologies: Lizzie

24 Nov

New dance - whole thing ready for crawl

Make sure Kate and Reesha are ready to dance out Jubilee, if coming

Trad dance experiments

Apologies: Lizzie

1 Dec

Get new dance ready for Mables Day

Jubilee tidy up for MD

8 Dec

Single and double tumbling practice

All work on trad dance

15 Dec

Teach more people new dance

Character discussion?

Jubilee refresher for crawl

22 Dec

Will anyone be around?

Teach more people new dance

For this to work we really need to have two sets dancing every week. The last few weeks we've had 8 or 9 dancers which is the most frustrating number! So, as always, please let me know if you can't make it to practice.

I've been doing some more trad dance research, with help from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Director! I'll send round my updated notes at the weekend but if anyone would like to read through the 'suggested' dances you can find them here http://www.rapper.org.uk/notations