Hi all, 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. Therefore, here's a rough plan for now until Christmas: 17 Nov 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 Happy weekends!l Ffion x