Another fun night last week, with lots of weather-related dances in preparation for our theme night! If anyone has any weather-themed decorations, please bring them along on 29 May. Hope you are all planning your costumes!

Ann’s
It was lovely to see you all last night, and great to see how much you had learned with Diane. I had asked her to cover a number of formations that are included in or “All Kinds of Weather” dances. So recapping and building on what you have covered in the last month we danced:

Lonely Sunday (J) – with a ladies chain – a repeat from a couple of weeks ago. https://youtu.be/nce6evLSaBQ

Gaelforce Wind (J) – with a mens chain- Men, who start diagonally opposite one another, turn with the left hand then turn right hand with the ladies on the sides (and repeat). The ladies dance ovals up and down the sidelines, turning the men on bars 3&4 and 7&8 of the formation. https://youtu.be/zrBQg6MYbks

Rainy Sunday Strathspey (S) with double figures of 8 and a 2 couple knot – we practiced long and short steps for the double figures of 8 and concentrated on covering between sets.

The Calm Before the Storm (R) – devised by Iain Boyd (Wellington) – a simple dance with a Set and Rotate.

We ended the evening with a couple of well known dances:

The Minister on the Loch (S) – practicing strathspey Pousette https://youtu.be/kJZJLlJvnaQ

and

Catch the Wind (R) https://youtu.be/GeV2hpDsqQg

We will cover a few more “weather” dances next week before our theme night.

Hope we have some good weather this week