Covid Precautions – please read this carefully if you are coming to Easter School:
Friday and Saturday evening programmes:
Friday evening will have a Steampunk theme+
Covid Precautions – please read this carefully if you are coming to Easter School:
Friday and Saturday evening programmes:
Friday evening will have a Steampunk theme+
Registrations for Easter 2022 are now open. Registration is online only, here is a link to the form. Easter School 2022
And here is the information about the School:
Lots of Fun, Friendship and Fitness. Here is a video of some of it.
Excellent bit in the ODT Regions section Wednesday 31 March https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/scottish-dancers-eager-reel-thing
And then more on Tuesday 6th April https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/scottish-country-dancing-school-%E2%80%98exceeded-expectations%E2%80%99
The number of registrations are so many that the Saturday evening dance and the Monday morning combined class have been moved to the Coronation Hall, Milton.
We have also added a small class for mostly newer dancers but also those who who benefit from working in a small group. Thank you to Elaine Goldthorpe for offering to take this class.
Details of everything is as follows:
Sunday Dinner – (for those who have registered and paid for it!) will be Mata-Au Lodge, 39 Rongahere Road,
Timetable
Revised registration forms for the postponed Lawrence Easter School can be found here: as pdf document Easter School 2021.registration or as a Word document Easter School 2021.registration
The Summer Celebration this morning (NZ time, it was Thursday evening in Scotland) featured New Zealand. This day’s Celebration was beautifully introduced by RSCDS President Jean Martin of Aberdeen. On the recording Summer Celebration (30 July) the NZ focus starts at about 00:57:18. Lawrence and Dunedin dancer Emily Currall provides some of the NZ commentary and teaches a dance.
With the annual Summer School at St Andrews cancelled due to Covid-19, RSCDS is holding a Summer Celebration 27 to 31 July. This can be joined live at 7:00AM New Zealand time – follow this link Dance Scottish – A Summer Celebration to the Summer Celebration page which has a “Let’s Dance and Connect” button to join the daily session.
The Thursday session (Friday 31 July 7:00AM New Zealand) will feature New Zealand dancing and some familiar faces.
The sessions are being recorded and can be watched later at any time – they can be found at the bottom of the Summer Celebration page.
Rather late notice but Lawrence has stepped up and will be hosting the South Island Easter School 2020. Accommodation will be the issue so anyone thinking of coming needs to organise this NOW. Halls are booked, teachers (Helen Smythe and Jeanette Watson) confirmed and we have live music (Thissldhu – Clare Simpson and Iain Matcham) for the evenings.
Registration forms can be found here: Easter School 2020 Registration Doc Easter 2020 Registration pdf
Dancers from as far away as Queensland as well from all over New Zealand (Whangarei to Invercargill) had a great time at the South Island Easter School at Owaka.
We got some positive coverage in the Otago Daily Times – all good to keep SCD in front of people and help cultivate the ground for recruiting new dancers. ODT article and some video here (you have to sit through the ad at the start of the video I’m afraid):
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/scottish-dance-school-gets-700-toes-tapping
Here is also a clip of the last 3 times through Cranberry Tart during the opening Social Dance on the Friday night Cranberry Tart