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Spring Fling Cambridge - 12th - 14th April 2024

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Anne-Laure Latour will play for classes and the Saturday evening dance!🎹
Native of France, Anne-Laure has played music since an early
age. She dances and plays SCD mainly in Cambridge.
Besides playing for SCD, she composes on commission personalized
melodies on the piano.

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Christina Hood started playing the 🎻 for SD in 2006 and now plays regularly for classes and dances in Cambridge and across Europe. She played for the International team at the Newcastle Festival for many years. She has played with David Hall since 2009, in the UK and overseas.

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Keith Smith will teach the musicians course.
He is internationally known for performing and teaching of classical and Scottish music. His concert and teaching tours with fiddle and highland bagpipes have taken him to many countries around the world. #rscds

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Adam Brady will play for two classes. 💃

Originally from Dundee, Adam began playing for SCD when he was 10 years old. Since then, has been fortunate enough to have been be invited to play for workshops and dances across the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Japan and Australia.

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- MEET OUR TEACHERS -
Lindsey Ibboston will teach Step Class.
Lindsey started SD in Dorset. She continued dancing at Oxford, got her teaching certificate, and joined the IT at the Newcastle Festival who encouraged her to play fiddle for dancing.

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Dave Hall will play and teach.
Dave danced and played music from an early age. While technique and improving standards is a great interest of Dave, it is still the thrill of moving as a group of people to music with great lift and verve that keeps him involved with the SCD scene.

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Sam Schad will teach Advanced class and Choreography. 💃

Sam has the great job of
teaching the Oxford University Scottish Dance Society's advanced class.
She really enjoys choreography and has had fun collaborating with her daughter, Beth, on some spectacular displays.

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The bookings for Spring Fling 2024 are now open! 🎉

You will find all the information here:
https://t.co/ZeUnKhNXMR #rscds @RscdsYD

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One week after St Andrews day, the bookings for Spring Fling 2024 are now open! 🎉

You will find all the information here:
https://t.co/ZeUnKhNXMR

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It's now one week since #SpringFling23Ed came to an end, and we've had great fun looking back over our highlights!

We're now signing off and handing over to Spring Fling Toronto - we hope you all have a fantastic time 😊

- the RSCDS Spring Fling 2023 Edinburgh committee 🏰💃🎉

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Our #SpringFling23Ed Roaring 20s Ball programme featured many classic Scottish Country Dances, including this one 'Light and Airy'.

The dancers definitely look 'light and airy', with more than a little help from Jim Lindsay and his Scottish Dance Band and their fantastic tunes!

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William Williamson, RSCDS Chairman, is well practiced at cake cutting, so we were delighted he could come along and put his skills to good use at our #SpringFling23Ed Ball ☺

(We're not entirely sure what point he was making here, but Jim Lindsay definitely looks amused!)

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At our #SpringFling23Ed Roaring 20s Ball, we had the delight of dancing to the fantastic sounds of Jim Lindsay and his Scottish Dance Band. What a night!

In this video of Anna Holden's Strathspey, don't miss the magic moment where every set in the hall dances down the middle!

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Here's a sneak peak at our #SpringFling23Ed Very Advanced class on Saturday morning, taught by Deb Lees, dancing 'The One O'Clock Canon' from RSCDS Book 47. Looking great!

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Our three teachers at #SpringFling23Ed - Abbie Brown, Alasdair Gray and Deb Lees - put their classes through their paces throughout Saturday.

We'd like to say a huge thank you to them, and musicians Susan MacFadyen, Shona MacFadyen and Ewan Galloway, for their hard work! 🙂

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For our #SpringFling23Ed Welcome Dance, our four strathspeys included 'The Braes of Breadalbane' from RSCDS Book 21. Check out our Spring Fling attendees and fellow dancers enjoying the music of Ewan Galloway!

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#SpringFling23Ed is over! We hope everyone who joined us, whether for the weekend or dances, had a fantastic time😀

We're not quite finished yet though - watch out for a few bonus social posts...

In the meantime, see if you can spot yourself in our Saturday night group photo!

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We've kicked off our Sunday fun-day with some competitive backwards dancing - plenty of 'variations' to be spotted between the teams!! 😆

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We were delighted to have @rscdsdancescot Chairman William Williamson with us tonight at #SpringFling23Ed to cut our celebratory cake. Along with the wine reception kindly provided by @dancingforth, we had a night to remember with Jim Lindsay and his Scottsh Dance Band!

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For those still on the go at #SpringFling23Ed, afternoon classes in Highland, SCD Around the World and Soft Shoe Step are taking place right now - great to see so many with lots of energy before tonight's Roaring 20s Ball!