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jackOoh, that was fun. It was exhausting, but a great ceilidh. There's just the right number of people I know, so I didn't need too much running round trying to dance with all of them, nor forced to make a new friend every dance. And I wasn't worrying about anything else, so just threw myself into the dancing.
It seemed to just click -- it wasn't absolutely perfect, but I did all of the dances well, didn't start daydreaming, and coped with a few advanced twiddles; and even polka'd Sonicdrift avoiding everyone and without tripping on anything.
I can never remember the names of the dances. There was one in lines of pairs of pairs where you turn opposite, turn person-of-the-same-gender, chain, spin partner, turn opposite, turn partner, circle, and pass through, but I was dancing with Rosy who *really* can spin, and the entire dance seemed to circle the same way, so by the end I looked shell shocked, and my middle ear was complaining.
And OXO, with a horseshoe line that's threaded through an arch on the end, that we tried to do about 3 times as often as their was time for. It's called OXO because six pairs form two circles and a rh star, but made me think "You must be able to play O's and X's like this..."
Atreic was a good caller. I'm slightly biased because I know more dances now that I used to, but she was pleasant to listen to, and I always knew how to dance after she explained it, which put her, together with a couple of others, as a favorite caller.
We resolve: we must do more dancing. I could maybe go to the round, but I maybe should investigate the other groups that build something. And try to get a group of people together to go back to the CDC balls -- I miss waltzing.
It seemed to just click -- it wasn't absolutely perfect, but I did all of the dances well, didn't start daydreaming, and coped with a few advanced twiddles; and even polka'd Sonicdrift avoiding everyone and without tripping on anything.
I can never remember the names of the dances. There was one in lines of pairs of pairs where you turn opposite, turn person-of-the-same-gender, chain, spin partner, turn opposite, turn partner, circle, and pass through, but I was dancing with Rosy who *really* can spin, and the entire dance seemed to circle the same way, so by the end I looked shell shocked, and my middle ear was complaining.
And OXO, with a horseshoe line that's threaded through an arch on the end, that we tried to do about 3 times as often as their was time for. It's called OXO because six pairs form two circles and a rh star, but made me think "You must be able to play O's and X's like this..."
Atreic was a good caller. I'm slightly biased because I know more dances now that I used to, but she was pleasant to listen to, and I always knew how to dance after she explained it, which put her, together with a couple of others, as a favorite caller.
We resolve: we must do more dancing. I could maybe go to the round, but I maybe should investigate the other groups that build something. And try to get a group of people together to go back to the CDC balls -- I miss waltzing.