Ringing the changes...

Well, the winter wardrobe is being put away and the summer dance gear has been hurriedly shaken out and reinstated on the hangers. The last two weeks has seen so many other changes too; both good and bad. Sadly, several more of our regular dancers have been injured, ill or operated on...we miss them all and hope they get better soon. In the meantime however, it's been exciting to welcome even more new faces to the Monday class. Most of our new people have never danced before, but they seem to be enjoying the classes and making plans to join us regularly. Great! I've also been ringing the changes with the introduction of some lovely new dances to the Tuesday night programme- it's very easy, and very enjoyable to repeat the same, well loved, dances every week, but it's also very easy to lose the skills involved in learning - not to mention the skills of teaching. I usually keep a dance on the programme for 3 weeks before changing it for a new one -preferably a dance we haven't done recently though there's always a core of well known regulars. Over the last few weeks however, we've tackled several brand new dances (to our class) that I came across at Winter School; they've been well liked, so far, so this week we have a brand new reel to try, the Tri-Mariner. The number of videos of this dance shows how popular it is in the rest of the world so hopefully it'll be popular here too. I'm already looking forward to everyone trying it!