Club night Monday 22 May 2023

Ann was unable to teach tonight but Diane Bradshaw kindly agreed to take the club at short notice. It was nice have Diane take us again so soon, and we will be seeing her again for a couple of nights in July. Diane put us through our paces and we did several dances in preparation for next week’s theme night programme. They were unfamiliar dances, but we made good progress and they should all be good for next week.

We have the theme night next week “All Kinds of Weather”, and will have live music by Iain Matcham and Jason Morris.

Dances we did this week:

Purple Rain (J)https://youtu.be/b2dlJ4T7-2Y
This had the casting and chasing figure to start.

Summer Wooing (R) https://youtu.be/h9Bto-g4hwA
The video for this one looks very energetic! The bit that needed more work with this dance was leading down for 3, the 2s divide and dance back up behind the 3s, finishing in the middle ready for a poussette.

Tartan Rainbow (S) https://youtu.be/MJL5zJmhq28
We got another opportunity to practise the 3 couple knot in this dance.

At the End of the Rainbow (R)
This dance is a modified version of “Cadgers in the Canongate”, having a tandem reel to start. We danced it to the music for “Cadgers”, which was a great set of tunes.

A Trip to Bavaria (R) https://youtu.be/N8vh1jptm1k
After all the work we put in learning the new dances, Diane offered us the choice of several dances to finish on, and this was the most popular choice by quite a margin! This was done well, twice so everybody got a turn as the numbers were awkward for 4 couple sets.