I know I promised not to bore my followers with any more dance videos, but we learned an interesting one last night which I thought you might enjoy hearing about.
The dance is called "The Royal Deeside Railway" and it was part of a program designed by Nigel, our teacher, celebrating Queen Elizabeth's 70th Ascension Day. All the dances we did had something to do with the Royal Family as the Queen is the patron of RSCDS (hence the Royal in the organizations name). Seemingly there would often be ceilidhs at Balmoral while the Queen was in residence.
The Deeside railway line was inaugurated in Queen Victoria's time and the dance dates from then. The railway wasn't used as much by subsequent monarchs and was finally decommissioned in the 1960's. In the video see if you can identify the connection to a train - the wheels of the locomotive, the engine being followed by the carriage, for instance.
Lovely dance. It looks complicated.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of the easier ones, flows quite nicely but the lady has to really move!
DeleteThat looks like fun. Complicated fun but fun all the same. I think I would have collided with several people!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly makes you concentrate and use your brain as well as your feet. My feet were aching by the time I got home.
DeleteBrilliant! Thanks.
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It's a lively tune, just made for dancing to.
DeleteThat was a fun one to watch & yes saw the movement of the train. The dance videos are never boring
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it, Mary Lou!
ReplyDeleteAs you said the dance flowed beautifully. I saw the wheels but kind of missed the engine and the carriage.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
The man follows the lady out of the circles. The lady (the engine) is always in the lead in this dance.
DeleteThat does look like fun, makes you want to skip along to the tune.
ReplyDeleteYes, the music really gets you hopping!
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