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Jun. 13th, 2006 10:34 pmThe Wilde Bunch won another trophy this year during Pridefest as "Best Walking Parade Performance." Third time we've done that!
Amazing what 5 minutes of prep can do!
Amazing what 5 minutes of prep can do!
Jun. 13th, 2006
Crossover and Open House
Jun. 13th, 2006 10:37 pmSnuck in a nap after I left work early yesterday, so was moderately refreshed for the Monday night dancing.
Workshopped the last couple of calls in C1 again for that class and presented them all with certificates of completion. I hate to say graduation, since none of the new folk would make it through a C1 dance at normal speed at this point.
The Crossover for Class 61 was VERY festive, considering it was open house #1 for Class 62, too. I was able to do a few mixers for the 10 or so visitors we had, and we were still able to do about 20 minutes for the ceremonies for the Basic class. As we usually do, it was a three tiered event, one themed tip by the regular club, one themed tip by the crossover class, and my own special.
I don't know WHERE they keep coming up with these ideas...I know they all peruse carefully that dangle book that the engravers have published for years.
For the club tip, the theme was "Pie Dangle." Jack and his assistant gave all the Basic dancers a basket with three 'strawberries' in it that that the ladies had to wear on their head, and the gents had to wear a pie plate, all attached with elastic. Everytime I did a call where they came together as partners, the lady had to transfer a 'strawberry' into the pie plate. Once all the berries were transferred (if one fell out, it had to be retrieved), the lady was supposed to put a white hanky (pie crust) over the top WITHOUT USING HANDS! The first to do that, the tip ended. It was a very funny scene. My song "Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies" wasn't on my laptop (????), so I improvised by using the "Crawdad Song" and changing the lyrics to "You got the Strawberries, I got the Crust, Baby" yada yada yada.
For the Basic tip, the theme was given to me as "Andrew Sisters," so I pulled out "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for it...but I have NO idea how what they did applied to that. The Basic class put all kinds of bandages, tourniquets, head bandages, splints, crutches, and walkers on the club members, and they had to dance like that. ALSO very funny to watch!
Then for my bit, I did my tried and true "We are Siamese If You Please" schtick, with them coupled up 16 to a square. They had a blast with that one, especially with swinging the partner.
At one point, we had enough for six squares if everyone had danced, but we just danced five squares a couple of times. It's amazing to me to see the whole hall filled with happy dancers.
We squeezed in one full MS, one full Plus, and an hot hash Advanced tip with all that going on, and by 9:30, after 3 1/2 hours of festivities and calling, I was about to pass out.
BUT STILL, Lee begged me to learn a new line dance, so we spent another 20 minutes working through "Crossing the Border" done to Marc Anthony's "I've Got You" and I'll teach that to the crowd at the Ranch on Thursday along with reviewing "Dance Ranch Romp"
What a day, what a day...
Workshopped the last couple of calls in C1 again for that class and presented them all with certificates of completion. I hate to say graduation, since none of the new folk would make it through a C1 dance at normal speed at this point.
The Crossover for Class 61 was VERY festive, considering it was open house #1 for Class 62, too. I was able to do a few mixers for the 10 or so visitors we had, and we were still able to do about 20 minutes for the ceremonies for the Basic class. As we usually do, it was a three tiered event, one themed tip by the regular club, one themed tip by the crossover class, and my own special.
I don't know WHERE they keep coming up with these ideas...I know they all peruse carefully that dangle book that the engravers have published for years.
For the club tip, the theme was "Pie Dangle." Jack and his assistant gave all the Basic dancers a basket with three 'strawberries' in it that that the ladies had to wear on their head, and the gents had to wear a pie plate, all attached with elastic. Everytime I did a call where they came together as partners, the lady had to transfer a 'strawberry' into the pie plate. Once all the berries were transferred (if one fell out, it had to be retrieved), the lady was supposed to put a white hanky (pie crust) over the top WITHOUT USING HANDS! The first to do that, the tip ended. It was a very funny scene. My song "Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies" wasn't on my laptop (????), so I improvised by using the "Crawdad Song" and changing the lyrics to "You got the Strawberries, I got the Crust, Baby" yada yada yada.
For the Basic tip, the theme was given to me as "Andrew Sisters," so I pulled out "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for it...but I have NO idea how what they did applied to that. The Basic class put all kinds of bandages, tourniquets, head bandages, splints, crutches, and walkers on the club members, and they had to dance like that. ALSO very funny to watch!
Then for my bit, I did my tried and true "We are Siamese If You Please" schtick, with them coupled up 16 to a square. They had a blast with that one, especially with swinging the partner.
At one point, we had enough for six squares if everyone had danced, but we just danced five squares a couple of times. It's amazing to me to see the whole hall filled with happy dancers.
We squeezed in one full MS, one full Plus, and an hot hash Advanced tip with all that going on, and by 9:30, after 3 1/2 hours of festivities and calling, I was about to pass out.
BUT STILL, Lee begged me to learn a new line dance, so we spent another 20 minutes working through "Crossing the Border" done to Marc Anthony's "I've Got You" and I'll teach that to the crowd at the Ranch on Thursday along with reviewing "Dance Ranch Romp"
What a day, what a day...
Crossover and Open House
Jun. 13th, 2006 10:37 pmSnuck in a nap after I left work early yesterday, so was moderately refreshed for the Monday night dancing.
Workshopped the last couple of calls in C1 again for that class and presented them all with certificates of completion. I hate to say graduation, since none of the new folk would make it through a C1 dance at normal speed at this point.
The Crossover for Class 61 was VERY festive, considering it was open house #1 for Class 62, too. I was able to do a few mixers for the 10 or so visitors we had, and we were still able to do about 20 minutes for the ceremonies for the Basic class. As we usually do, it was a three tiered event, one themed tip by the regular club, one themed tip by the crossover class, and my own special.
I don't know WHERE they keep coming up with these ideas...I know they all peruse carefully that dangle book that the engravers have published for years.
For the club tip, the theme was "Pie Dangle." Jack and his assistant gave all the Basic dancers a basket with three 'strawberries' in it that that the ladies had to wear on their head, and the gents had to wear a pie plate, all attached with elastic. Everytime I did a call where they came together as partners, the lady had to transfer a 'strawberry' into the pie plate. Once all the berries were transferred (if one fell out, it had to be retrieved), the lady was supposed to put a white hanky (pie crust) over the top WITHOUT USING HANDS! The first to do that, the tip ended. It was a very funny scene. My song "Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies" wasn't on my laptop (????), so I improvised by using the "Crawdad Song" and changing the lyrics to "You got the Strawberries, I got the Crust, Baby" yada yada yada.
For the Basic tip, the theme was given to me as "Andrew Sisters," so I pulled out "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for it...but I have NO idea how what they did applied to that. The Basic class put all kinds of bandages, tourniquets, head bandages, splints, crutches, and walkers on the club members, and they had to dance like that. ALSO very funny to watch!
Then for my bit, I did my tried and true "We are Siamese If You Please" schtick, with them coupled up 16 to a square. They had a blast with that one, especially with swinging the partner.
At one point, we had enough for six squares if everyone had danced, but we just danced five squares a couple of times. It's amazing to me to see the whole hall filled with happy dancers.
We squeezed in one full MS, one full Plus, and an hot hash Advanced tip with all that going on, and by 9:30, after 3 1/2 hours of festivities and calling, I was about to pass out.
BUT STILL, Lee begged me to learn a new line dance, so we spent another 20 minutes working through "Crossing the Border" done to Marc Anthony's "I've Got You" and I'll teach that to the crowd at the Ranch on Thursday along with reviewing "Dance Ranch Romp"
What a day, what a day...
Workshopped the last couple of calls in C1 again for that class and presented them all with certificates of completion. I hate to say graduation, since none of the new folk would make it through a C1 dance at normal speed at this point.
The Crossover for Class 61 was VERY festive, considering it was open house #1 for Class 62, too. I was able to do a few mixers for the 10 or so visitors we had, and we were still able to do about 20 minutes for the ceremonies for the Basic class. As we usually do, it was a three tiered event, one themed tip by the regular club, one themed tip by the crossover class, and my own special.
I don't know WHERE they keep coming up with these ideas...I know they all peruse carefully that dangle book that the engravers have published for years.
For the club tip, the theme was "Pie Dangle." Jack and his assistant gave all the Basic dancers a basket with three 'strawberries' in it that that the ladies had to wear on their head, and the gents had to wear a pie plate, all attached with elastic. Everytime I did a call where they came together as partners, the lady had to transfer a 'strawberry' into the pie plate. Once all the berries were transferred (if one fell out, it had to be retrieved), the lady was supposed to put a white hanky (pie crust) over the top WITHOUT USING HANDS! The first to do that, the tip ended. It was a very funny scene. My song "Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies" wasn't on my laptop (????), so I improvised by using the "Crawdad Song" and changing the lyrics to "You got the Strawberries, I got the Crust, Baby" yada yada yada.
For the Basic tip, the theme was given to me as "Andrew Sisters," so I pulled out "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for it...but I have NO idea how what they did applied to that. The Basic class put all kinds of bandages, tourniquets, head bandages, splints, crutches, and walkers on the club members, and they had to dance like that. ALSO very funny to watch!
Then for my bit, I did my tried and true "We are Siamese If You Please" schtick, with them coupled up 16 to a square. They had a blast with that one, especially with swinging the partner.
At one point, we had enough for six squares if everyone had danced, but we just danced five squares a couple of times. It's amazing to me to see the whole hall filled with happy dancers.
We squeezed in one full MS, one full Plus, and an hot hash Advanced tip with all that going on, and by 9:30, after 3 1/2 hours of festivities and calling, I was about to pass out.
BUT STILL, Lee begged me to learn a new line dance, so we spent another 20 minutes working through "Crossing the Border" done to Marc Anthony's "I've Got You" and I'll teach that to the crowd at the Ranch on Thursday along with reviewing "Dance Ranch Romp"
What a day, what a day...