[xspf]_start('Tideswell 2008')[/xspf]
happened last weekend, and was very good indeed - from the musicians who carried on when there were only a couple of us left dancing in the early hours, to Fliss and Jarleth playing in the stairwell, waltzing to Caspar's musical saw, singing three-part polska tunes with Frances and the lovely dances I had with Nicola, Karolina, John Stewart, Carol, Sarah, Ann, Jeanette, and Jess; hambos, polskas of various kinds, hottises, slengpolskas, langdanses, silly dances that four of us made up on the spot and even a bit of tango when the music seemed suitable.
I overdid it a bit in a halling - an acrobatic dance where the main aim is to kick a hat off a pole, steadily held higher in the air. I didn't get round to the hat, but I did get round to the high kicks, though what did for my legs (as Karolina warned me afterwards it would) was the dropping onto my haunches and springing back up again in a single beat. It didn't hurt at the time, or even when me, John, Nicola and Karolina stayed up dancing until four in the morning, but the next day, how they ached!
Driving up and back down with Sarah was also good, especially on the way back down - some good rants about things we felt strongly about, and my MP3 player was co-operating so we had Hank Williams, Cape Breton fiddling, Ada Falcon y su Orquestra and Les Costauds De La Lune to hum along to. Les Costauds were at the Grand Bal de Bath, and I remember very well how they got me doing outrageously show-offy Auvergne bourrees with Andy Letcher and Sarah Capel - the bagpipes and percussion they use make them sound like the most amazing fairground organ you've ever seen.
Those people who know Scandinavian music better than me should comment below on the tunes I taped - I think I've got the names of the performers right this time, but I have no idea what the tunes are called, or which specific polska should be danced to each. I'm sorry for the occasional pops/crackles - next time, I'll bring my little Sony mic, and the sound quality should improve.
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