Category: Waltzing Parties
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A Year of Social Dancing 2025
In 2025, Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party hosted seven dance parties and two ticketed dances, attended three outside dances and a ballroom dancing competition, and promoted umpteen dance lessons as well […]
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A Gaudete Sunday Waltzing Party
“We never know how many people we have until we’re in the room,” I told our fledgling waltzing instructors at After-Mass Tea. I encouraged them to do their best with […]
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Winter Events 2025/6
There were 15 cheerful souls at our tea party on Saturday, and I thank the host very much for his hospitality. We feasted on sandwiches, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies […]
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The Tea Party, Etc.
The regular crowd at Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party have been invited to a tea party on October 25, and I will be giving there a brief address on the subject […]
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May I have this dance?
We held our third and last pre-Michaelmas Dance workshop yesterday, and I was delighted with it. For one thing, we had 8 women (and girls) to 11 men (and boys), […]
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La Maison de la Valse
This morning I am torn between admiration and despair, for I have seen some videos about the waltzing scene in Paris. A married couple called Charles and Hélène de Lauzun […]
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A Learned Skill
When someone tells me that they have two left feet, I tell them that I do, too. I am not a quick study, and it takes my brain a long […]
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Girl Shortage
When I was in high school I wrote short stories called “Man Shortage,” “Man Shortage II” and “Man Shortage III.” One of my characters anticipates Catholic Match and its competitors […]
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Sunday workshops begin today
Our first Road to Michaelmas dance workshop is this afternoon (September 7). For exact time and address, please send an email to dmclean@yahoo.ca. That is the only address I will […]
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A June Dance Party
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, the day I had two hours booked in the parish hall for a waltzing and ceilidh rehearsal. After various emails and phone calls with […]