Category: Instructions
Instructions.
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Marian Anthem for Advent
Today we are having a Waltzing Party as part of our Gaudete Sunday celebrations. As we always end parties and dances with the seasonal anthem to Our Lady, this afternoon […]
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Rules for Counter-Revolutionaries
Rules. Today we flinch at the word, assuming that rules limit our freedom in an onerous way. However, when we see a game that interests us, we want to know […]
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Welcoming
On Sunday I spied a new family coming into the parish hall for After-Mass Tea. Perhaps “new” is the wrong word to use, for members of this family have been […]
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Needs must
In Ontario, Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina) is a kind of local saint. The founder of Madonna House, she was an aristocrat who survived […]
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Traditional Dance Deportment
I have finished reading Elizabeth Casciani’s Oh, How We Danced: The History of Ballroom Dancing in Scotland and must take it back to the library today. First, however, I would […]
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Planning dance parties like a (Christian) Stoic
When I was very young, I enjoyed a lot of drama. It added spice, i.e. dopamine, to life before we all got hooked on the internet. Books provided Laurie’s unrequited […]
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Learning to teach Lindy
My usual advice to would-be hosts and hostesses is not to teach your guests how to dance yourself. “Delegate” is my watchword. “Delegate, delegate, delegate.” Ideally you do nothing on […]
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Strip the Willow for Soldiers
There are dances traditionally for women, dances traditionally for men, and dances traditionally danced by both sexes together. Then there is Scottish Highland dancing. “Friday night was always dancing night,” […]
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A Music Lesson
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. This great truth was brought home to me while discussing the tempo of waltz music for the Second Annual […]
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Learning to Teach the Waltz
There is an old adage about mastering a skill in medicine: see one, do one, teach one. This is perhaps not wonderfully comforting for patients, and the best dancers in […]