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mrsbrownbetter today.
As I drove home this evening from dancing, I remembered that this Baronessing thing is good for me.
It's forcing me to head out of my comfort zone and do stuff I've thought about doing or let other people do for the last twenty years.
Tonight I taught my first ever dance class.
I learnt that I know the country dances really well and can teach and call them easily. The ones I learnt twenty years ago - the cut bransles, black alman, known world pavane - I just do thme without thinking and I don't do them well. I think it's 'cos I learnt them by following other people and still just follow without thinking. The last 2 cut bransles were so bad we really couldn't dance them. I guess I'll have to make an effort to learn them better.
Also, we're over dancing Petit Vriens. We need a new silly dance that people can do to finish with.
As I drove home this evening from dancing, I remembered that this Baronessing thing is good for me.
It's forcing me to head out of my comfort zone and do stuff I've thought about doing or let other people do for the last twenty years.
Tonight I taught my first ever dance class.
I learnt that I know the country dances really well and can teach and call them easily. The ones I learnt twenty years ago - the cut bransles, black alman, known world pavane - I just do thme without thinking and I don't do them well. I think it's 'cos I learnt them by following other people and still just follow without thinking. The last 2 cut bransles were so bad we really couldn't dance them. I guess I'll have to make an effort to learn them better.
Also, we're over dancing Petit Vriens. We need a new silly dance that people can do to finish with.
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:05 pm (UTC)Petit Vriens is a good finisher for EVERYONE to finish with. It's perfe ct for that purpose. But maybe we need something else for our talented Thursday dancers to finish with. Must be time to teach Newcastle :)
And go you with the dance teaching! Just dag around and have fun. That's what I did, and look where it got me!
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Date: 2007-09-25 11:40 am (UTC)Double, single, gai burgundian or mimed bransled sets are easier to call, and the almans I find not bad - but i always want my reference sheet (eg page from del's) with me to check that I'm calling the right alman with the right moves even when i really do know them by heart to dance them.
I'm sure you did great.
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Date: 2007-09-26 03:17 am (UTC)There's some fun silly bransles (eg. breton) but they don't have the nice group nature of petit vriens.
hyde park with aeroplane movements ?