Demo dancers performing Hoopers Jig, for Festival of Trees.
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Hooper’s Jig
Posted in Demonstration Team, Photographs, tagged demo team, RSCDS on December 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Demo Practice
Posted in Demonstration Team, Photographs on November 22, 2009| 1 Comment »
RSCDS Sacramento demo team warming up for practice. We will be dancing at the Festival of trees at Micke Grove.
Final Practice…
Posted in Demonstration Team, Photographs on August 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Ashland
Posted in Demonstration Team, Performances on August 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We danced Saturday at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
We had a group of 15 dancers, ranging in age from 10 to mind-your-own-business, and in experience from a few months to we’ve-stopped-counting.
We arrived in Ashland on or before Friday; some of us took the opportunity to get there early and see a few plays. The Festival provided housing for Friday and Saturday night. We met Saturday morning for walk-throughs on the stage, and then were free to enjoy Ashland until evening. Sound check was at 5:15, cast call at 6:15 and the performance from 7:15-7:55, letting us finish in time to make an 8:30 play.
The weather was warm, getting up close to 100 in the middle of the afternoon. but threatening thundershowers cooled things off nicely at performance time. Fortunately the showers themselves held off until just after we danced. We had a couple of minor glitches, but that is normal and expected, and overall the performance went very well. Everyone was very enthusiastic and complementary.
After we danced about half the group used our comp tickets to see Equivocation, the only play available for comps that evening. It was the only choice available, but it was an excellent choice. It is a play I would love to see again, if done as well as it was done in Ashland. It is a brilliant play.
Some of us then partied into the wee hours, and dragged ourselves home Sunday. Others had the good sense to get to bed a bit earlier, and then dragged themselves home Sunday.
It was a wonderful weekend, and a number of us are plotting return trips in future years, even if we don’t get to dance.
Yellow-Haired Laddie
Posted in Demonstration Team, Photographs on July 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
EB, Lynne, and Carol practicing the ladies step dance “Yellow-Haired Laddie” for our Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival performance.
Stretching
Posted in Demonstration Team, Photographs on July 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »