Valeria's blog

Class Cancelled!

Hello all!

Due to our lovely Edinburgh weather, tonight's class is cancelled. The Chaplaincy and all UoE buildings will close at 3pm today.

We will see you next Thursday which will be the last dance class of the year!

If you find this news devastating, you can go to our wonderful website http://greekdance.org/ and use our instructional videos (after logging in), to practise in your living room :D

All the best,

Valeria

Extra Class

Hello all,

After popular demand we are having a dance class tomorrow as well, to give us more time to rehearse our show before the upcoming performance on March the 11th and 12th.

Please come at 7:30pm [not 7:00pm this time - although this should not make a difference to most of you :)] at the Chaplaincy.

See ya!
Valeria

Update!

Hello all!!

We're on tomorrow for our Dance Class at 7pm-9pm, at the Chaplaincy as usual.

Please come on time as we are also rehearsing for our upcoming performance in March :)

See you there!

Class is back on tomorrow at 7pm

With most of the snow having melted, the Chaplaincy is back working normal hours.

So - see you there for our much anticipated dance class tomorrow at 7pm!

:)

Valeria

Classes every two weeks until Christmas

Hello guys!

It was great to see you yesterday. We spent some time reviewing Baiduska and showed three variations: turns, wave and in&out. We will cover the other 2 variations (stop and change of direction) in the coming classes.

We also danced the Cretan dances "Katsampadianos" and "Pidihtos Lasithiou", and showed you "Katsa".

REMEMBER!!!! There is no dance class on November 9th - we meet again Tuesday, November 16th!

Testing your memory

In our last dance class (19th October) we tried something different...

We put on random tracks and let you guys figure out which dance steps go with which songs. The chaos which followed was unexpected!! :) All jokes aside - I think the exercise showed us that we need to let you take the lead more often. You did display great team work though, and by trial and error (koutsa-strava!), you eventually managed to match the correct dance to each tune!

Last class 13th Oct 2010

Hello guys!

Good to see you on Tuesday! We covered a few different dances to re-cap on previous years, and only spent a bit more time showing the steps of "Kori Eleni" and particularly of "Baiduska". For Baiduska we covered the following variations: turns, change of direction, wave.

See you next Tuesday,

Valeria

Last dance class 5 Oct 2010

Hello guys,

Nice to see you all turn up on Tuesday's class!

We danced various dances in order to remember what we had covered last year!

We only spent some extra time covering the variations of Tsamikos, which are: turns; six-six; squat; hit; salahi; scissors!

See you next Tuesday at 7pm!

Valeria

Our first dance class

Hello!

It was nice to see everyone come along to the first dance class and I hope the newcomers feel welcome!

Just so you know, we showed you the following dances in our last class: Podaraki, Koftos, Sfarlis, Kamara Skiathou.

We'll see you next week!

Valeria