Today while doing chores I popped a favorite Celtic CD in our cd player, and listened to the lilting, joyful sounding music. Well, that was how it was at first....
It all starts with nodding your head in time to the music, then it leads to humming with it, then a sister comes along, looks at you, grins and before you know you are both setting to the music in tandem!
Meg and I love nothing more than to think back of favorite dances, or not so favorite, that we've done together. :) 'The waterfall Waltz', 'Mary's Wedding', 'Boston Teaparty'. [sigh] Good memories all about it....
We stopped attending the weekly ECD (English Country Dance), mostly because of the distance, and it's always hard to do when there are little ones to keep busy.
I remember during a masquerade ball that we went to, Meg and I danced together for almost the whole thing. There was one dance in particular (can't remember the name) that was reeeaallyy slow; Meg and I don't do well together during slow dances (she likes to go fast). So we started goofing around, oh, we still did the dance perfectly, but we added those silly things one would only do with a sister or sibling. :) We made faces at each other as we passed or did 'two-hand turns', added extra goofy steps to the slower parts, etc... We actually started laughing out loud! People started watching us to see what we would do next and I think perhaps some of them wished to join in our silliness. ;D That dance is now in our "list of favorites" despite its slowness; because Meg and I had so much fun together doing it!
Doing a fast. crazy dance with my sister Megan is the absolute best!! We both get to laughing and then we forget what the next step is; but then, during the fast ones, most everyone forgets the next part! Meg and I like to twirl each other (I looove being twirled!) while dancing too.
In our little kitchen is where Meg and I always seem to end up dancing. We set together, do favorite moves from favorite dances and choreograph our own dances to go with our CD's. 'Tis fun. :)
Poor Emily, the age limit for dancing was 13, and she was 12 when we were attending! Alas, we had stopped about a month before her birthday, so she never got to go to a ball and very rarely got to dance during the weekly dances. :( Meg and I always include her in our 'spur-of-the-moment' dances, and she got to do enough dances that she can reminisce with us.
I think our favorite thing to do (usually at night when we're in bed) is to ask the question: "If you could do any dance, which would you choose?" That's always a hard one to answer. The Dingle dance was fun. But short. The Gothic dance is fun and fast! But it's best if there is at least 70 people. How about the Contra dance? Very fun, but also very long. The Waterfall Waltz, Whip-the-Willow, Say-I-Do.... Which one does one choose? Personally, I think I like ALL of them, but if I got to choose just one, I think I would choose the slow dance called "Enchanted Place". Each move mirrors a part from the story of 'Winnie the Pooh'! I love the slow, graceful, trickiness about it!
Meg says she would choose the fast and crazy 'Contra dance'.
And Emily would choose 'The Gothic dance'. Another fast and crazy one. :)
Good memories all about it...
~Caitlyn
2 comments:
Whip the willow and Together again are two of my favorites. Theresa and I were missing the "dancing days" the other day. :)
We just did the "Boston Tea Party" recently. :) I like that one. :D You gals should come to dance sometime.
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