Tanglefooters Spring Dance, 2008

Well, the Tanglefooters Spring Dance weekend, Feb. 29-Mar. 2, 2008, has come and gone. We went into the weekend with some apprehension, as we broke with a 20-year tradition and chose another clinician to teach and cue our dance. Not only that, but we had to move the dance up one weekend because of circumstances. Neither of these issues do I want to go into here, but I do want to report that it turned out largely positive. Our numbers were down from the usual 50-55 couples. We might have had 40 couples, or 80 people this year. We await the final tally. Our cuer/clinicians, Debby & Tim Vogt, of Las Vegas, were excellent instructors who ran a tight ship. We danced more than the Friday and Saturday night programs because Debby didn't give us but about two breaks, and they were 5 minutes max. So she added dances both nights. We certainly got our money's worth there.

Here they are above, dancing a demonstration dance for us.

Here's Deb, cuing the dance for us.

Debby & Tim taught two Phase IV+2 dances in the morning, a foxtrot and a jive; and two in the afternoon, a Phase III waltz and a Phase III cha cha. Or was it cha in the morning and jive in the afternoon? I have forgotten. All four were excellent dances, and they are top-notch instructors.

Some of the dancers

In all, we danced 12 hours in barely over two days over the weekend, including two hours Sunday morning. Not surprisingly, we were dead tired afterwards!

Now that the weekend is over, I have already started planning for next year!

By the way, I will post pictures from the dance later.