Anglo Scottish Society of Ipswich News

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Dear Dancing Friends,

Well we finished the year on a high with our Hogmanay afternoon dance. With a mixture of Ceilidh and Scottish Country dances, this was enjoyed by a mixed crowd of children and adults of all abilities.  We are now planning our next year of dancing. 

Our Spring Dance this year will be a Charity Dance in aid of the RSPCA Suffolk Central Branch. It will be an evening dance on Saturday 26th April from 6:30 to 10:30pm.  Please mark it in your diaries. Click on our header for full information including programme and cribs on our events page.  As usual, this will be held at Copdock & Washbrook Village Hall, Old London Road, Copdock, IPSWICH IP8 3JN.

Classes are running at Bredfield (Woodbridge Group) on Wednesdays, and at Nacton on most Fridays - check dates at information link below. Bredfield classes are starting earlier this term,  for beginners and improvers from 7pm until 8pm, and then the normal class from 7:30 to 9:30pm, so there will be an overlap. We have several new dancers this year and more are welcome. Just get in touch. The first evening is free for you to try it out.

Looking further forward, 2025 will see the second Suffolk Day School on 7th June at Risby Village Hall near Bury St Edmunds, and on the evening of 21st June, we will jointly host the second East Anglian Ball with our dancing friends from Norfolk, Cambridge and Bury St. Edmunds. We will again be dancing to the joyful playing of Keith and Anne-Laure.

Woodbridge (Bredfield) Class Information     Nacton Class Information

Woodbridge (Bredfield) Class Programmes

Videos of dances

Many people now use the YouTube videos to help with learning new dances, or just refreshing their memory on old ones, and these can be found via links on the Scottish Country Dance Dictionary cribs pages. However, not all dances have videos, and that applies particularly to locally devised dances such as The Saxtead Mill, Gillian's Strathspey and Jim and Margaret's Jig.  So the Woodbridge class has been busy filling a few gaps. Click on the button below to see what we have achieved!

Click here to see our videos   

The very best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year,

Libby Wragg

Chair of the Anglo-Scottish Society of Ipswich

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