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Wednesday, 30 January 2002 10:45 pm
before I forget, I just want to say that Scottish Dancing yesterday was immensely good fun. Not only did I not fall over and not bump into me too much, I had aseries of good-natured and friendly partners who dealt with my inability to tell left from right and up from down with great good humour :)
It also revealed hidden depths to Jamie Bell our Chapel verger. He's a tall, silent chap whose age I really annot guess. In chapel he is always very solemn; but when I walked in to the hall and saw him in his dancing shoes you wouldn't have thought he was the same person. He partnered me for a couple of the first dances and was not only very good, but excellent at directing me and correcting my mistakes.
I managed most of the dances no problem - there were just two things which stumped me. One was dancing a reel. When this figure is demonstrated, the instructor walks a figure of eight for each person, showing where they have to cross between the others, while everyone else stands still. When it is danced to music, however, everyone dances at onse and so you are trying to make a figure of eight round two people who aren't there, but are actually off dancing their own loops and getting in your way, Terrifying.
The other thing was the Strathspey time travelling step. I couldn't work out where the hop went, which is odd because normally my sense of rhythm is pretty good.
So it was good. There were also a number of very nice young ladies there. Very nice indeed. Mmm.
And now my calves ache and i have an essay to write.
It also revealed hidden depths to Jamie Bell our Chapel verger. He's a tall, silent chap whose age I really annot guess. In chapel he is always very solemn; but when I walked in to the hall and saw him in his dancing shoes you wouldn't have thought he was the same person. He partnered me for a couple of the first dances and was not only very good, but excellent at directing me and correcting my mistakes.
I managed most of the dances no problem - there were just two things which stumped me. One was dancing a reel. When this figure is demonstrated, the instructor walks a figure of eight for each person, showing where they have to cross between the others, while everyone else stands still. When it is danced to music, however, everyone dances at onse and so you are trying to make a figure of eight round two people who aren't there, but are actually off dancing their own loops and getting in your way, Terrifying.
The other thing was the Strathspey time travelling step. I couldn't work out where the hop went, which is odd because normally my sense of rhythm is pretty good.
So it was good. There were also a number of very nice young ladies there. Very nice indeed. Mmm.
And now my calves ache and i have an essay to write.
