Dear Dancing Friends,
Well we finished the year on a high with our Hogmanay afternoon dance. With a mixture of Ceilidh and Scottish Country dances, this was enjoyed by a mixed crowd of children and adults of all abilities. We are now planning our next year of dancing. The Spring Dance will be an evening dance on Saturday 26th April from 6:30 to 10:30pm. Please mark it in your diaries, and look out for the programme and other information on our events page soon. As usual, this will be held at Copdock & Washbrook Village Hall, Old London Road, Copdock, IPSWICH IP8 3JN.
Classes will restart in the new year at Bredfield (Woodbridge Group) on Wednesday 8th January 2025, and at Nacton on Friday 10th January 2025. Bredfield classes will start earlier this term, for beginners and improvers from 7pm until 8pm, and then the normal class from 7:30 to 9:30pm, so there will be an overlap. New dancers are welcome.
Looking further forward, 2025 will see the second Suffolk Day School on 7th June at Risby Village Hall near Bury St Edmunds, and on the evening of 21st June, we will jointly host the second East Anglian Ball with our dancing friends from Norfolk, Cambridge and Bury St. Edmunds. We will again be dancing to the joyful playing of Keith and Anne-Laure.
Woodbridge (Bredfield) Class Information Nacton Class Information
Videos of dances
Many people now use the YouTube videos to help with learning new dances, or just refreshing their memory on old ones, and these can be found via links on the Scottish Country Dance Dictionary cribs pages. However, not all dances have videos, and that applies particularly to locally devised dances such as The Saxtead Mill, Gillian's Strathspey and Jim and Margaret's Jig. So the Woodbridge class has been busy filling a few gaps. Click on the button below to see what we have achieved!
The very best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year,
Libby Wragg
Chair of the Anglo-Scottish Society of Ipswich
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