Monday new class start and doin's
Jun. 14th, 2007 06:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerThe rain on Monday may have kept some new dancers away, but we still had seven new souls on the floor with us. Two of the dancers have solid dance experience, one is a young woman who is the daughter of a contra cuer, and another is a young man that danced through Plus 10 years ago in New Hampshire, so he'll be a ringer for sure. I didn't see any particularly awful dancers in the other five.
Since we had so many angels, my initial 'big circle' to get everyone up was larger than the hall could support, so we quickly dropped into two circles, then into squares. The initial EZ singing calls went flawlessly with lots of whooping and cheering at their success at the end.
Announcements went overlong, since we talked about the Pride events, convention. The table area was packed with dancers.
This will be a short Basic class ending August 27, so I did away with the open houses and just started classes on the run. The first three nights are easy enough that new dancers can assimilate. We'll see how this goes in the long run.
Georgian is well into planning the 25th anniversary dance day on Saturday, March 22. Anne Uebelacher is flying in for this, so it will be a real treat! We'll have dancing in two halls with workshops/level dance from 10 to noon, 1:30 to 3:30 and 7:30 to 9:30 (one hall), with a catered (I think) dinner and presentations. I believe Kris is going to arrange a contra dance with a live band, I've been asked to do the Hex stuff again, and I'm hoping we have a C1 dance, and a Basic/Mainstream workshop/dance. This is going to be a LOT like a mini-flyin, what with all the energy and planning going into it.
Since we had so many angels, my initial 'big circle' to get everyone up was larger than the hall could support, so we quickly dropped into two circles, then into squares. The initial EZ singing calls went flawlessly with lots of whooping and cheering at their success at the end.
Announcements went overlong, since we talked about the Pride events, convention. The table area was packed with dancers.
This will be a short Basic class ending August 27, so I did away with the open houses and just started classes on the run. The first three nights are easy enough that new dancers can assimilate. We'll see how this goes in the long run.
Georgian is well into planning the 25th anniversary dance day on Saturday, March 22. Anne Uebelacher is flying in for this, so it will be a real treat! We'll have dancing in two halls with workshops/level dance from 10 to noon, 1:30 to 3:30 and 7:30 to 9:30 (one hall), with a catered (I think) dinner and presentations. I believe Kris is going to arrange a contra dance with a live band, I've been asked to do the Hex stuff again, and I'm hoping we have a C1 dance, and a Basic/Mainstream workshop/dance. This is going to be a LOT like a mini-flyin, what with all the energy and planning going into it.
