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Beginners’ Dance: Details

Hey Folks,

the details for our Beginners’ Dance are out. Please find all the important information and the program below. All dances will be called.
If this is your first dance, you can find answers to important questions here. Dance instructions for the most dances can be found here.

Walkthrough
Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Venue: Ochil Room, Pleasance (46 Pleasance)

Dance
Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012
Time: 7:30pm to midnight
Admission: £6 unwaged / £7 waged
Venue: St Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place
Band: David Oswald
Dress code: informal

After-party
Date: Sunday, 25 November 2012
Time: midnight to early morning
Venue: Daniel and Hamid’s flat (just follow people)

If you need floor space to sleep on, please contact Roanna, our
steward, through roanna.mackay@hotmail.co.uk.

Name Type Origine
La Chapelloise (Belgian Dance) 16J
Joe MacDiarmid’s Jig 4x32J RSCDS 1982
The Wee Bus 8x32R New Scotland 50th
The Byron Strathspey 3×32 Drewry
The Blooms of Bon Accord 4x32R – 2 Chords Drewry
The Wild Geese 8x32J RSCDS XXIV
The Wind on Loch Fyne 3x32S Dunedin 1
The Bees of Maggieknockater 4x32J Drewry
The Eightsome Reel 464R SCDS II
INTERVAL
October’s Party 4x32R Hallenbeck
The Luckenbooth Brooch 8x32J Bowie Dickson
Johnnie Walker 64S + 64J Guisborough
Shiftin’ Bobbins 8x32R Ormskirk VI
St. Andrews Fair 8x32J RSCDS 1982
Mairi’s Wedding 8x40R Cosh
The Silver Tassie 8x32S RSCDS Leaflet
Glenburnie Rant 4x32R Bowie Dickson
The Highland Ramber 8x40R Leeds SJ
EXTRAS
C’Est L’Amour 8x32J RSCDS XXXIV
Flowers of Edinburgh 8x32R CDS 1
The Black Mountain Reel 5x32R Haynes
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New committee members

The Committee would like to welcome… trrr(snare drums)…

Irina Wernet as Freshers’ Rep
Melanie Quintero
Lena Bekken
Laura Hillyard

as new members to the New Scotland committee!

It’s also nice to have Daniel Franzen continuing his great work in the committee :)

Freshers! (i.e. all members to have joined the society this year) note that Irina is YOUR very own representative, so if you have any suggestions, ideas, complaints etc. from a fresher’s point of view, don’t hesitate to contact her or pull her sleeve some time to let her know how you feel.

They will be added to the committee page soon, so you can know better who your committee members are!

p.s. Don’t forget to send any photos, anecdotes, stories or drawings about this year with New Scotland to our president Alastair (asbm6399@gmail.com) for the yearbook!

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A trophy for Edinburgh!

Our dancers are back from Newcastle dance festival and brought with them a trophy: Together with our sister group Dunedin Dancers they won the display with their army style dance. Congratulations, you did a fantastic job!! For everyone interested: Here is the video.

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Term Start

Welcome to a new term full of dancing and other social activities! Our classes will run again from next week, please do note the venue changes though! Only the classes at Lutton Place stay where they are, all other classes will be held in a different venue this term!
For step classes on Monday we have the Summerhall (Vet School), for Tuesdays St Columbas by the Castle and for Highland the Potterrow Dome.
On Wednesday, 19. January there will be a taster class at the Pleasance from 6pm – 8pm, where you can have a first try at all the different dancing styles we are teaching – and the best thing is: it is absolutely free! So if you have never danced step, highland or ceilidh and want to have a go at it, or have some friends who are curious about this, do come along!
Please do also remember that there will be lots of other events this term, like Refreshers’ Weekend, Annual Dance and IVFDF in Bristol!

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    • Step Beginners
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      • Tuesday, 7pm-9pm
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