London Barndance: February 2021 virtual dance

Bob Morgan and Unusual Bands

Video Project

The video project for February was the Slängpolska - a Swedish couple dance. Nozzy recorded the music and Jake and Anna made some videos to show us how it goes:

• Learning Slängpolska
• Dancing Slängpolska
• Music for Slängpolska (also available as an MP3 file: Slängpolska)
• Here are the dots: Slängpolska från Kumla

We got 26 video contributions showing about 30 dancers, and edited them together into this:

• Slängpolska composite video

Sheet Music

Thanks to Thomas Bending we have sheet music for this month's tunes.
See also Slängpolska från Kumla for the video.

The running order was:

• Hallway Hop to Liberty Belle / The Kitchen Girl
• Slängpolska från Kumla
• Magic Mirror to March of St Timothy / Little Judique
• New Perspective to Crabbit Shona
• Bouncing Off The Walls to Calliope House
• Double Duo-Si-Duo to Tam Lin
• Donna's Waltz

Bob has provided links to some of the dance notation:

1. Hallway Hop (heel and toe)
2. Magic Mirror (Grand square)
3. New Perspective (Rory-o-more)
4. Scatternella - Cis Hinkle
5. Double Duo-si-Duo

Quiz Answers

This month's quiz involved identifying bands from short samples of their music. All the bands involved have played for London Barndance, though for some that was 20+ years ago!

1. English Contra Dance Band
2. Vertical Expression
3. Stringrays
4. Contrasaurus
5. Arden Folk
6. Blue Mountain Band
7. Bruce Rosen and George Wilson
8. Notorious

Other virtual events

See what happened at our other online dances on the Events page

You can find more videos on the London Barndance YouTube channel