Category Archives: Big E

We entertain again!

The team was absolutely thrilled to be able to give a demo at our local Poet’s Seat Health Care Center!

Of course, with masks and in the parking lot!  I’m not sure who was more excited — the residents of the Center or the team members to once again enjoy each other’s company – albeit at a distance – but company nonetheless.

The smiles under those masks were very very obvious on both sides of the distancing spaces!

The team works hard — we work hard because it’s fun, we enjoy each other’s company, we love the thrill of memorizing new dances and step routines (they say it’s good for our brains too!).  We work hard so that we can perform a 50 minute different routine each year in order to bring joy and company and smiles to residents of Senior housing.  Pre-pandemic, and we plan post-pandemic, we perform upwards of 50 times a year at several local housing venues, not to mention the parades!

And, this year, in particular, we know how isolated our seniors have been —

For a few months in the summer, we practiced on the driveway of our teacher’s home; recently we have been able to practice in a pavilion on a lovely piece of property and even a town common.

We so look forward to doing more demos.  Keep dancing in your own homes!  It brings smiles, I promise you that!

 

 

Half Past Nothing Teach and Demo by our Teacher!

Hello!

No one will be surprised to learn that COVID has had our team out of practice time and space as we all sheltered at home.   A few of us are now practicing in our teacher’s driveway, and we are very much looking forward to seeing you at an event in the not so distant future and dancing for you!

Here’s the teach and demo by Pat of Half Past Nothing!

For those of you not on the team, enjoy, give it a try, and next time we see you at an event, you can join us on the dance floor after our demo!

 

 

 

Pandemic News

Hello friends,

It’s taken a few weeks as I think we were all hopeful that we’d see you sooner than later!

Like so much of the world, we dancers are staying home to protect our families, friends and neighbors.

We are practicing and have great plans to share our new dances with you sometime this year!

Stay well!

The Big E and the end of the 2019 Fair season for us! But we’re not done with 2019 yet!

The Big E — it’s BIG!    Take one look at the photo on this page, and you have just a little taste of the size of this place and the thousands that attend it!

They had their largest attendance ever –  1, 639,527 people!  What does that mean for us?  We are thrilled to be invited and to dance at such an event.   We always do our demo in the New England Center, where you’ll find the home of the 4-H,    as well as the most amazing pieces of handwork and quilts!

We did really well, the weather was a perfect late summer day, and we had a pretty decent sized audience, with a couple of toddlers who are always happy to bounce along to the music with us!

 

North County Line Dancers
A little blurry, but you get a sense of how fast our feet do go sometimes!

 

 

 

We generally go down a little early and enjoy the Fair ourselves – we take in some of the sights such as the famous butter sculpture, eat some fair food (baked potatoes and tater tots are some of the favorites), and maybe even get a little life advice!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re not done with 2019 yet though!!   Stay tuned for more as we switch to our Holiday programming – learning new dances to holiday music and entertaining at several of our local Senior Housing Centers in the month of December!

 

Happy Fall!