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3rd / 4th Birthday Dance Party
We could not celebrate our 3rd Birthday last year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown. So we had a combined 3rd / 4th Birthday Dance Party on Friday 15th July this year.
It was a fun night with dancers and cuers joining us from other Round Dance Clubs. Our annual ‘Introduction to Round Dancing’ event was held a fortnight before, so we even had some beginner’s joining-in the celebrations.
The evening commenced with our favourite dance tune – a Phase 4 Rumba/Two Step to the 1962 tune of ‘Suspicion’ by Terry Stafford. (See the video below.) Coral, from Harlequin Rounds, cued some dances and Alison ‘hash-cued’ a basic Rumba so the beginners were not left out.
A table of supper was brought out at about 9 o’clock. This was the first time this year we have been allowed to bring food into the hall and mingle closer than 1.5m! The party continued well passed the nominated 10pm finish time.
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Teachers, Alison & Phil, with the Pandas
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| Suspicion (Rumba /Two Step) | I Need More of You (Foxtrot) |
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Panda Rounds held its first Virtual Dance via Zoom on Thursday evening 9th April. Most members tuned in on a range of different Windows, Android and Apple computers, tablets and phones and had to set them up so they could be seen while dancing. It took a while to get used to the different screen views and to set up the music. A Bluetooth speaker certainly helped the tablets and phones. All participants had to have their microphones muted while the dance was being cued. Once everything was working satisfactorily, the teachers, Alison and Phil, cued some rumbas, cha chas, waltzes and foxtrots for everyone to dance to. Most devices had multiple screens so we could see each other dancing. For some it was the first time they had to round dance without a partner! It was amazing to see what the dancers could do in a small space. The dancing finished at about 7.45pm and everyone sat around having supper and a chat. Alison plans to continue the virtual dancing every Thursday and Friday evening. |
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Friday 20th December &
40°C
Panda’s First Birthday Dance
July 2019
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Introduction to Round Dancing
Saturday 4th May 2019
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Panda Rounds – Introduction to
Round Dancing – May 2019
The
Panda Rounds Round Dance Club held
a Knox Zest4Life Over 55s
“Introduction to Round Dancing” event on Saturday afternoon 4th May
in the Boronia Progress Hall. Over
50 people came along to find out what Round Dancing is all about.
It is cued ballroom dancing and teacher, Alison, taught us some basic
Rumba steps. Within an hour we were
all dancing round the hall to music.
We had done our first Rumba round dance!
After the break she showed us a few more steps and we
soon felt like experts. We finished
with a couple of dances that included all the moves we had been taught.
What an enjoyable afternoon it was.
One dancer was overheard as she was leaving, “Wow!
That was such fun. I’m coming
back for more.” Alison was assisted by her partner, Phil, and Panda Rounds
experienced dancers, David, Glenys, Yvonne, Mounir, Dale, John and Jane.
Panda Rounds – Introduction to
Round Dancing
Rumba
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| Butterfly | Fenceline | Lariat |
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| New Yorker | Progressive Walk 6 | Side Corté |
Special Visitors
3rd
May 2019
On Friday 3rd
May we had some special visitors.
Mariko from Tokyo, Japan, was brought to our Club by Doona.
She was visiting Australia and Doona met her at a square dance in
Tasmania.
Ex-Victorians (now
Queenslanders), Glenis and Derek, joined us for a dance.
They were brought by Ella from
Sunnyside Rounds. (Sunnyside
Rounds at Heatherton has been running for over 60 years.)
Ella even cued a couple of dances for us!
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| David & Mariko | Doona & Mariko | Mariko & Rob |
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| Doona, Mariko & Alison |
Ella, Glenis & Derek |
2018 Christmas
Dance
Friday 21st December
The new
Panda Rounds Round Dance
Club had its Christmas Dance on Friday 21st December in the Boronia
Progress Hall. It was a fun night
with over 30 dancers celebrating the end of their first year.
As well as Panda’s Cuer/Teacher, Alison, they had two guest Cuers:
Ella, from Sunnyside Rounds, and Coral, from Harlequin Rounds.
There was a range of tunes at various dance levels so that everyone was
catered for. Alison even
choreographed and cued some new Christmas dances just for her beginners!
Boney M’s ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ Phase 3 rumba was a favourite.
A
Panda Rounds member said “We have learned so much in 6 months.
It was great to meet dancers and Cuers from other Melbourne clubs and see
new dance figures that we will probably be taught next year.”
‘The
Panda’ was present to keep an eye on proceedings.
After the dancing finished the guest Cuers were thanked, the visiting
dancers were thanked for their support and 4 experienced dancers, Christine,
Graeme, Glenys and David got a special mention as they have helped Alison and
Phil establish and run the new club this year.
