Square Dance Society Christmas Dance

The South Australian Square Dance Society held its annual Christmas Dance on Saturday Night at the RSB Hall, Gilles Plains and was well supported with six squares on the floor most of the night.

The night started with half an hour of round dancing cued by Les Tulloch and Thelma McCue followed by several hours of mainstream square dancing with one Plus bracket, along with a couple more round dances. Jeff Seidel, Graham Elliott, Les Tulloch and Collin Hudson shared the square dance calling.

During a break in dancing, dancers were asked to vote on dispersal of leftover funds remaining after the State organization hosted the annual national square dance convention in June. Funds were allocated to various state square dance interests including $10,000 being put into a trust fund for seed financing for the next Adelaide national convention, plus an additional $3500 in the same trust to be used as a loan to any future committe setting up a national  convention in Darwin.

An enjoyable supper and a great night of dancing was had by all. Thank you to the state committee for organizing and running another successful night of round and square dancing, and for the subsidized $2 entry fee.

T and T Round Dance Club News

Here we are once again coming to the end of another year with Xmas just around the comer, where has the year gone. This year we are having our Xmas luncheon on Sunday 25^th November at the Walkers Arms followed by a dance at the Chandelier. If you would like to come to our dinner you do need to book with me. All will be welcome to the dance after the lunch. With the SARDA dance being held on Saturday 15th Dec our last Thursday dance will be on the 13th. We must say Happy Birthday to Jeffrey who celebrated his big 75^thlast month. Our Learners Class dancers are still very keen and are Waltzing along with their Rumba Cha & a little Two Step not bad for 14 weeks. I must say Kay, who came along to learn the mans part, is doing really well. Hopefully some will have attended their first SARDA dance held in October. Some are coming along Sunday afternoons for a brush up on what they learnt on Friday. Sunday our new 12 O’Clockers are being pushed along at a steady rate and are coping quite well with the new dances they are learning adding Quickstep, Bolero Tango and a little Jive. Congratulations.

On Thursdays we are doing quite a bit of revision on some of the older dances, with so many over the years, a lot don’t get danced very often and need to be revised, along with newer dances presented, such as the Onedine Waltz, a Phase 6 Waltz. We have missed Isabel lately who unfortunately has been on the sick list. We hope you will be well soon.

All for now Thelma