A video session.
Warmup was Ron Wallace's The Shetland Shepherdess. For music I used Muriel Johnstone's solo piano recording of The High Lodge from her CD Dancing Fingers 2.
We then made videos of
Joie de Vivre - (32 J 3) - Bk 39 (Maarseveen)
Fair Donald - (32 S 3) - Bk 29
J. B. Milne - (32 R 3) - Glendarroch (Foss)
These should be up on YouTube and Strathspey Real Soon Now. They are all on the programs for the Rerr Terr (just past) and/or the Pawling Weekend. And there were no good videos of these dances on Strathspey. And that needed correcting, and if not us then who?
After filming we still had some time available so, having heard good things about the dance, I taught My Golden Bear -- 32 J 3 (Rod Downey - from the new NZ book 'From North Cape to the Bluff').
It went well but there was a quip from the peanut gallery suggesting that it might dance well as a strathspey. Well, we just had to. And Xiaowen was right (as usual) it danced beautifully as a strathspey.
Postscript - she emailed Rod Downey with this tidbit and Rod has written a new strathspey - The Lost Legion - with the same central formation and has started a new book of dances, tentatively titled "book 5".
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