Rondeliers Dance Club; Black And White Ball

“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.” Mikhail Baryshnikov

Black And White Ball Serious Dancing Gets Underway (Page Three)

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Perhaps a little "slight of hand" before the first dance??

Did You Know? - Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation ("quick fingers") or legerdemain, is the set of techniques used by a magician (or card sharp) to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly.

Sleight of hand is not a separate branch of magic, but rather one of the means used by a magician to produce an effect. It can be contrasted with the flourish, where the magician intentionally displays skills, such as the ability to cut cards one-handed, which is akin to juggling. Advanced sleight of hand requires months or years of practice before it can be performed proficiently in front of spectators. Sleight of hand is mostly employed in close-up magic, but it can also be used in stage magic. There are hundreds of different sleights at the performer's disposal, but they can generally be classified into groups such as switches, changes, and others.

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Dessert is being served

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"Now let me see.... How did he do that??"

Announcements

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A few short announcements

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Introduction of guests

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Additional announcements

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"Can you hear me??"

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Thanks Larry for the beautiful pictures from "The Homecoming"

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Dessert is served

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"OK.... You may begin the dancing"

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"Hey... I want the mike"

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Darlene won!

Fun With Centerpieces

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"This is how we are going to determine the winners of the centerpieces

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Just kidding... We had a bottle of fine sparkling sweet wine for the centerpieces! Clever!!!


Italy; Bubbles! Gently frizzante; rich aroma with floral,
butterscotch and cherry notes; sweet lime on the palate with
crisp apple flavor and good acidity.

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Check the bottom of your bread plate... We have a winner

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The kitty is happy!!!

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"Me too!"

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"... and us!"

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It's almost too pretty to drink!!

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"However, we will find a way to do it"

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Great idea.... With our group we need hand rails!

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Time to dance and warm everything up

Did You Know? - Clancy Lowered the Boom! "Clancy Lowered the Boom" is a song written by Hy Heath and Johnny Lange in 1947, made famous by Dennis Day on Jack Benny's radio program (The Jack Benny Program). The song follows the adventures of an Irish-American stereotype as he "lowers the boom" on any person that gives him "guff".

It was also recorded by Bing Crosby , and it was Petula Clark 's second single in 1949.

Now Clancy was a peaceful man
If you know what I mean,
The cops picked up the pieces After Clancy left the scene,
He never looked for trouble
That's a fact you can assume,
But never-the-less when trouble would press.
Clancy lowered the boom!

Chorus: Oh, that Clancy,
Oh that Clancy
Whenever they got his Irish up,
Clancy lowered the boom!

O'Leary was a fighting man,
They all knew he was tough,
He strutted 'round the neighborhood,
A-shootin' off his guff,
He picked a fight with Clancy,
Then and there he sealed his doom,
Before you could shout "O'Leary, look out!"
Clancy lowered the boom!

Chorus: Oh, that Clancy,
Oh that Clancy
Whenever they got his Irish up,
Clancy lowered the boom!


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"Dance... Did you say dance? My favorite five letter word"

The Mixer

Did You Know? - Paul Jones is the name used for a number of mixer dances that were popular in the first quarter of the 20th century but continue to be used in traditional dance settings to the present day. One common variation is as follows.

At the signal of the caller (who may also be called by other names, such as "prompter", "cuer", or "Master of Ceremonies"), all dancers join their hands to form a circle (or several concentric ones, if crowded), with ladies being to the right of their partners.

At the second signal of the caller, the dancers repeatedly do the Grand Right and Left move, well known in square dancing. As a result, the ladies move to the left (clockwise) along the circle, while gentlemen move to the right.

At the third signal, dancers dance with the partner whose hand they are holding at the moment. This "third signal" is traditionally the shouted words "Paul Jones", but a whistle or other device can be substituted. This procedure may be repeated "as the master deems it advisable".


Oops... Wrong mixer


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Around and around we go....

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OK Wyatt.... Let 'er rip!

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Nope! The camera is horizontal... The room is moving

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Definitely a black and white ball

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We are movin' movin' movin'

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Circling the wagons...

Did You Know? - Although "train" suggests a line of wagons, when the terrain permitted the wagons would often fan out and travel abreast to minimize the amount of dust each wagon encountered.

At night, wagon trains were often formed into a circle (a "laager") for shelter from wind or weather and corral the emigrants' animals in the center to prevent them from running away or being stolen by Native Americans. While Native Americans might attempt to raid horses under cover of darkness, they rarely attacked a train; wagons were seldom circled defensively, contrary to popular belief.

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OK... Back to the table for a quick drink before the music starts again

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A beautiful evening with friends

Quotation To Remember: "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust

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Around we go

Featuring Wyatt Haupt's Magic Music Machine...

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"OK guys... Let's speed it up... How about a cha-cha-polka-waltz??

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"Eh... A what??"

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Wyatt has a little secret.... Gives depth to the music... They hide in the bandstand

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Everything they play is so dancable.....

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Keeping up the beat

Did You Know? - The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drum stick, to produce sound.

There is usually a resonance head on the underside of the drum, typically tuned to a slightly lower pitch than the top drumhead. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

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Did You Know? - Among the very earliest keyboard instruments are the pipe organ, hurdy gurdy, clavichord and harpsichord. The organ is without doubt the oldest of these, appearing in the 3rd century BC, though this early instrument—called hydraulis—did not use a keyboard in the modern sense. From its invention until the 14th century, the organ remained the only keyboard instrument. Often, the organ did not feature a keyboard at all, but rather buttons or large levers operated by a whole hand. Almost every keyboard until the 15th century had naturals to each octave.

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Wyatt is also a movie star!

Did You Know? - Wyatt played a boy in the 1951 smash hit "Appointment With Danger " followed by his role as Perry in the movie "It Came From Outer Space" (1953), and as Herbie in the Ozzie and Harriet series (1961), and not to forget the 1955 TV series "Crossroads"

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Simply great music!!!

Meanwhile On The Dance Floor

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Romance is on the air....

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Ah ha... There are dancers somewhere in this room

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Nice and toasty inside.... 40 degrees outside

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We are dancing the night away

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"Do you know what he whispered in my ear???"

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"I do!"

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Speed limit 65 SPM (Steps Per Minute)

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Poetry in motion

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Ring side seats

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Everyone slowed down as they passed the fire

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Twirling and twirling

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The photographer gets the evil eye

Did You Know? - The evil eye is a look that is believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for the person at whom it is directed for reasons of envy or dislike. The term also refers to the power attributed to certain persons of inflicting injury or bad luck by such an envious or ill-wishing look. The evil eye is usually given to others who remain unaware.

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All smiles

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"Hello there big boy"

It's Almost Witching Hour

Did You Know? - With a modern literal meaning of "midnight," the term witching hour refers to the time of day when supernatural creatures such as witches, demons, and ghosts are thought to appear and to be at their most powerful and black magic to be most effective. It may be used to refer to any arbitrary time of bad luck or in which something bad has a greater likelihood to occur (e.g., a baby crying, a computer crashing, or stock market volatility ).

One of the earliest, if not the first, appearances this term makes is in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Here, Irving uses "witching hour" and "witching time" interchangeably.[5] Both terms reference midnight, and are used to conjure in readers a sense of supernatural anxiety. There is little evidence the term has had any practical use prior to this, and that Irving coined the phrase after having grown up around New England and touring areas where the Salem Witch Trials took place.

In several of Shakespeare's plays – specifically Macbeth and Julius Caesar – ghosts and other supernatural phenomena take place around midnight, but the term "witching hour" never appears. In the play Hamlet, we hear young Hamlet saying, "'Tis now the very witching time of night."

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The crowd is thinning out

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The last folks dancing....

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The embers are providing needed heat

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"We win.... Last dancers standing!!"

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The Last Dance

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