29 January 2019_New Haven

I presented the following dances:

Mrs Stewart's Jig  -  (32 J 3)  -  35/11
Miss Janet Laing's Strathspey  -  (32 S 4)  -  22/11 (Cramb)
Well Met in Paris  -  (32 H 3)  -  Glasspool
From Paper to Pearl  -  (32 S 3)  -  Collin
Mrs Stewart Linnell  -  (40 R 3)  -  Imperial 3 (Bayly)

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Mrs Stewart's Jig:-  Easy Peasy and now a part of the standard repertoire.

Miss Janet Laing's Strathspey:-  It is on the K&G program. The dancers need to know it. Oh my poor aching head!  SB is pointing her finger at me and I am pointing my finger at her, and honestly, I need to laugh.

When they finally get the circle thing it will be a nice dance. Will it be worth the effort? I am not sure. But the dance demands that the dancers rise above their usual. Demanding a stretch from dancers -- can it  be a bad thing?

Well Met in Paris:- I had to. I truly had no choice. We have a new (to us) dancer in the class. He is from Paris, teaching at Yale, and his wife was visiting. Newly married, and…   they met in Paris.

And the dance is in my top 50. It is indeed that good.  The crossing by 2C to enter the reels of 3 on their own sides is just that needed hint of hot pepper that balances the meal.

From Paper to Pearl:-  👍  From Gaye Collin in NZ. Nice dance but even better, it is satisfying for everyone. I only show one thumb but actually there are enough thumbs for the dance to be on the K&G program

Mrs Stewart Linnell:-  I taught this years ago and considered it difficult enough that I haven't been willing to teach it to any of my current classes. I am just a wimp - but enough of that!

The heart of the dance is a sequence. A quick one. you don't have time to consider things you need to move it. You need to complete the half reel passing by left shoulders in the middle before you take left hands and turn 3/4! The math becomes a wee bit convoluted if you take hands early and remember the 3/4 turn thing!

It works. Really! It works. Well enough that I have found in on ball programs from the UK from when they didn't talk dances through.

I give it two thumbs up:  👍  👍