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The house sitters will be moving in very soon and we will teaching on one of Fred Olsen’s Cruise Ships again. We really enjoy doing this work. We meet lots of new people and we can dance and teach all day and all night  if we want to.
We work through The Dance Afloat Agency, who this weekend are holding a ‘teach in’ for [...]

This is part of an e-mail I have received and I thought it may be interesting to some of you.
Btw, I thought you might like to know   It appears that Graham and Avril Watkins have taken over the shoe catalogue from the Danceaway Pleasures website.
Got a leaflet from Maestro Direct advertising their CDs and DVDs and  Julie Earnshaw [...]

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Answering your letters.
If you read TA Whitworth ’s Book  Learning The Essential  Sequence Dances,( available from Northern Star Dance Services in the blogroll) know that prior to the BDC regulating Sequence Dancing in 1975, there was no copyright on any scripts. ( I now learn from a reader, that any written document can be considered to be copyright to its owner whether [...]

One of the questions that has come into us in the last couple of days is “What is a 50/50 dance.
This is a term that goes a long way back in dance history and initially described a dance that offered Old Time dancing for half the programme and Modern Ballroom dancing for the other half.
If [...]