Boston Urban Ceilidh |
January 10th, 2009 |
| dance |
On friday Julia and I went to the boston urban ceilidh at
springstep. It was fun, but is always a strange dance. They
generally have a different few opening bands each year; this year
they had "in fine fettle" start, who have been playing for judy
erickson's excellent "step lightly" english dances at springstep.
Emerald and Hannika Cassle (sp?) called the final two sets, and
while they tend to call the same thing each year and never call
particularly exciting dances (example: whole set dance; 1s swing
for as long as they feel like, then start stripping the willow down
the set. Repeat with the new 1s as soon as the old ones are out of
the way), the amazing (Laura Cortese!!) music was enough to make it
really fun. And the simple dances meant that the
never-danced-before people seemed to be having as good a time as
the experienced dancers.
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