Dance
activities at the Craft workshops are
a vital part of our Easter meet. There were LOADS of different craft
workshops.
To see these click here. |
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Video of the Easter Bunny and the filming of the "Durham Reel" and a medley dance of "Curly Headed Ploughboy, Portsmouth & Nottingham Swing." |
 We met in the hall, and invaded Shirley's workshop while we waited for Alison to tour the site with the camera man and sound man to identify the filming locations. |
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 Alan-musician and dancers Alan, Phillip, Melissa, Jonathan, Thierry, Hollie,Christopher,Karen, Geoff, Trevor, Jean, Patsy, Christine, Davina, Amy, Ian, Matthew, Pat, Mike, Willow, Tosh, Peter, Alson and Becky |
Thankfully, it was a bright,
sunny day. |
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The cameraman seemed to
like close ups.
Speaking of
tails, some very peculiar footage was taken. |
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 The
cameraman seemed to like filming toes too and decided to kneel on the
grass to get a closer look. |
 Filming the footwork? Is that why it's called "footage"? Or was he praying? |
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At then
end of the "foot footage", the camera is switched off
and the cameraman starts to sit up again. Just then, the Easter Bunny and Tom make a surprise appearance and the cameraman doesn't even notice. Talk about missing the action! |
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 After another quick chat with Alison, the cameraman takes a stroll up the middle of the set while the dancers gazed into each others eyes. Must have been hard not to giggle. |
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Then it was
Easter picnic time. Blackcurrant squash and biscuits.
Wot - no Easter eggs? |
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Then it was time for a quick change of venue onto hardstanding - the school driveway. Under Alison's
careful guidance the "youngsters" danced Durham Reel. |
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 Double cast. Camera on shoulder looking at heads and shoulders - just when we were all doing the difficult rant step in perfect time. . |
 Thread the needle. In case of emergency, Alison points out the emergency exits... |
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 Oh no, what's the cameraman filming now. Toes? Or tails again?... |
 No it seems to be knees he's filming. Great, that completes the set - heads, shoulders, knees and toes - isn't that a song? |
 Just like the Duracell Bunny, Alan's accordion keeps going and going. |
 The end. A final "honour you partners" and we all went home. Well, back to our caravans and motorhomes. |
Border
Morris Workshop and Rapper Sword Workshop VIDEO LINKS for the Border Morris Workshop and the Rapper Sword Workshop at the Easter 2010 Meet as Sawston are to the right. There are photos of the Rapper workshop and Border workshop photos are below. | Video of the dance Go Mauve as taught in in two hours of the Border Morris workshop. |
Video of the Rapper Sword sequence learned in two hours on Easter Monday. |
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and rapper sword workshops we were in a Food Technology classroom with
interesting words on the wall
that
described
food. We
had great fun trying to use as many of the words to describe our dancing
- sweet, crunchy, crumbly, claggy and effervescent to name but a few. Alan led the music, with Hazel and Thierry joining in when the workshop participants were well behaved and getting it right. |
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Border Morris Workshop Thierry and Hazel taught the Lumbawakk dance called GoMauve to three sets of six dancers.
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 Eric and Sandra, Derek and Judy, Sid and Lynda had fun with little argument for a change! |
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 Thierry leading the sticking move...in one of the few quiet, calm and heckle free moments. The photo also shows a few of the various ways people wore the compulsory "lanyard and identification badge" throughout the meet. Here you can see the popular "Round the Neck" version, the "Round the waist with tag to the side" version and Karen's way which defies polite description....Hmmm.... |
 Matt and Phil, Marianne and Tosh, Peter and Edinburgh Dave danced together. Five of them were honoured to have a real live Witchman in their set ... |
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 Karen and Hollie, Ann and John, Melissa and Margaret heckled and caused chaos throughout the entire workshop. Well, one of them did ...name no names! |
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