Five-time Waltz
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 – Club Night
The musicians practice was led by Helen Boreham and this month we welcomed visiting bagpiper and saxophonist Tim. This month’s club night concentrated on the 5 Time Waltz and the Schottische/Waltz. We also practiced the An Dro and Hanter Dro (from last month). Dancing with the wonderful Pied à Terre musicians.
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 – Kerry Fletcher
Another warm ‘welcome back’ to Kerry Fletcher, who has brought her enthusiastic and engaging dance teaching to Pied à Terre many times over the years. She taught a schottische variation, a circle progressive mazurka, Lo Cruzado and the five time waltz with music from our muscians.
Wednesday 4th April 2018 – Ben Hooke Band
Ben started with a workshop, looking at style and variations of a few popular French partner dances (5 time waltz and Rondeaux en couple) and revised/learnt a couple of other simple favourites in the French dance repertoire (Bal Limousin and Avant Deux à Coutant) followed by a traditional (mostly!) French bal, with dances in couples, …
May Bal 2006
The recent 10th Anniversary celebrations began with a Petit Bal on Friday evening. The club musicians, including long-standing and new members, started the proceedings with an hour-long set of tunes for over a dozen different French dances. Later, Norwich based Thievin’ Crows played their first official Bal and went down a storm. The band, most of who …