Wot I want for Christmas is..

[DianaS]

a dance weekend in Birmingham, (or Nottingham)
Call me lazy but the thought of 4 hours driving after work on Friday night even for a weekend of extreme pleasure slightly takes the edge off my enthusiasm at times

[bigdjiver]

Extend your open house to a week-end?

[DianaS]

Originally Posted by bigdjiver

Extend your open house to a week-end?

Well since you mention it there is a BIG event planned for the 11th of December...It would be great to see some forumites there.
Official all inclusive invite below . Do come and give these ol gals a good send off We're only 70 once. (Guess whose 40! )

We’re meeting up for
Jule’s and Diana’s 70th birthday bash

at The Nantwich MJ Christmas Party,
11 December, 8pm till 1am

bring your dancing shoes…

[baldrick]

Originally Posted by DianaS

a dance weekend in Birmingham, (or Nottingham)
Call me lazy but the thought of 4 hours driving after work on Friday night even for a weekend of extreme pleasure slightly takes the edge off my enthusiasm at times

Yea, its no fair that you live so close. Some of us would have to travel

[DavidY]

Originally Posted by DianaS

a dance weekend in Birmingham, (or Nottingham)
Call me lazy but the thought of 4 hours driving after work on Friday night even for a weekend of extreme pleasure slightly takes the edge off my enthusiasm at times

it would be nice...

However we aren't totally devoid of places to dance. The Halloween dance at Ceroc Daventry a couple of weeks back was one of the best "ordinary" freestyle nights I've been to. It's a big venue which comfortably held what must have been 3 or 4 hundred dancers.

I guess the problem of turning something like that into a weekend is finding some cheap accomodation within easy walking distance so you can go back and eat/sleep whatever.

[DianaS]

Originally Posted by DavidY

it would be nice...

However we aren't totally devoid of places to dance. The Halloween dance at Ceroc Daventry a couple of weeks back was one of the best "ordinary" freestyle nights I've been to. It's a big venue which comfortably held what must have been 3 or 4 hundred dancers.

I guess the problem of turning something like that into a weekend is finding some cheap accomodation within easy walking distance so you can go back and eat/sleep whatever.

Hmmm Daventry does have possibilities the workshops are of a good standards and the Halloween Ball was fantastic! I really liked the caberets..
Some weekenders are done in hotels with dance floors, and they work really well but I suspect that the hotels with dance floors tend to be in the sesside areas

[TheTramp]

Much better idea....

Birmingham is a really crappy place to live anyhow. So move somewhere nicer. And make sure that it's near a place where they hold a dance weekend. Problem solved

Trampy

[bigdjiver]

[quote=DavidY... The Halloween dance at Ceroc Daventry a couple of weeks back was one of the best "ordinary" freestyle nights I've been to. It's a big venue which comfortably held what must have been 3 or 4 hundred dancers... [/QUOTE] I may be wrong, but I thought the dance was preceded by a day of workshops, which would have brought an exceptional number of keen dancers to Daventry. I couldn't make it ...

[DavidY]

Originally Posted by bigdjiver

I may be wrong, but I thought the dance was preceded by a day of workshops, which would have brought an exceptional number of keen dancers to Daventry. I couldn't make it ...

Yes you're right and there were workshops beforehand. There were 2 x 2 hour workshops on moves from the 2 prize-winning cabaret routines done by Emma (Pettitt) & Alex and also Phil & Alex.
The workshops weren't as full as the previous similar day at Daventry though.