I'm really very sore. All up I must have danced about 12 hours this weekend as part of the Really Bigger Deal. Two days of swing dancing workshops followed by social events in the evening.


The classes were really great. They were taught by Vincenzo Fesi and Isabella Gregorio from Italy. They really are stunningly brilliant dancers. They're also very good teachers, taking the time to make sure everyone knew what was going on.


The classes were reasonably challenging and very exhausting by themselves (never mind coming back in the evening to go pedal-to-the-metal). The events however were fantastic. Swing dancing events are always an excuse to dress up vintage, and neither night was an exception.


Saturday night was a New Orleans themed social dance at the Mt Hawthorn Community Hall. Sunday night was possibly the most awesome event theme ever. It was a New York-style Speakeasy, held in the Jazz Cellar, a tiny cellar in the back of Mt Hawthorn that you enter via a phone box (I know!). There was live jazz, illegal booze and gambling, flappers and of course: dancing. It really was awesome fun.


Hopefully I can actually stay awake tomorrow. I would have liked to have taken tomorrow off, but I have a meeting that can't be moved.


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