A spot of dancing: Scottish Style.

The Oxford and Cambridge Highland Ball on the 7th March was enormous fun and seemed to be enjoyed immensely by all who attended.

The students performed a Scottish Country Dance demonstration and this was it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkdpmN4lxY&feature=youtu.be

If you are very keen, you may see a short tubby female dancing and that happens to be me, one of the last times I will be able to dance as a ''student'' ( postgraduate and a bit elderly!).

The dances in order were:

Monica's Way

(a 32 bar jig for 4 couples devised by Gail Sibley published in Book 48)

The Golden Years

( a 32 bar strathspey devised by Nora Sutherland , published in Book 48)

The Rye Twist  

( a 32 bar reel devised by Sue McKinnell. published in Book 48)

and

The Kaleidoscope Reel.

( an 80 bar reel in a square set devised by Sue Petyt and published in the Lochmaben Collection 4 )

Then the young ones also danced the most amazing Highland demonstration which was designed  and danced by Sarah one of the students and OUSDS Society President.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWF0yvNebg&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy! This has been keeping me so busily occupied with so much less time for blogging...

And so inspirational that I will be aiming to start a reformation programme today to shed at least 1.5 stone- or a minimum of 21 lbs! A bit of re-shaping is much needed .