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sorcyressSo Pinewoods.
Pinewoods is a dance camp in Plymouth MA. It runs folk dance sessions all summer long. RSCDS1 Boston runs three sessions (one in conjunction with CDSS1) all in a row. It's my fifth year going to Pinewoods for some length of time. It was my first year going for all three.
The 6-10th was ESCape, a brand new session siphoning dancers from the now defunct ESS (English Scottish session) and English/American weeks --it featured English, Scottish, and Contra dancing (singularly and in combination!). The 10-13th was Scottish 1 (which most of us call "session 1", because SCDers like to pretend no one else uses Pinewoods), and the 13-18th was Scottish 2 (/"session 2"), which are SCD-exclusive (well, mostly) sessions.
Jegus I have danced a lot in the last two weeks. But you wanna know the nice thing about the last year? Over the last year, I've been averaging something like four dance nights a week, and two of them (Candidate class and Highland) have been particularly intense. I may be in better shape now than I have *ever* been. My legs are great and powerful <3.
Which means that while I am tired (like, almost fatigue-sick tired...look, I did pretty good on sleep, but last night was last party and I didn't turn in until five), I am not broken. My legs are a bit stiff and sore, but still work --I made it through the entire first night ball at ESCape without ever even feeling it. This is an awesome feeling, and makes me super excited for Scottish on Monday night, and Highland on Wednesday, and whatever it is I wind up doing Tuesday.
I'm really happy. I'm not sure if I wanna bother doing a good-bad-ugly for it (and jeepers, I still owe y'all the rest of the NYFaeFest report), but I will try and write up/collate some random report type thoughts and tales.
Tl;Dr: it was awesome.
Teaser: Did you know that bras and swords are basically interchangable?
~Sor
MOOP!
1: the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Boston Branch); Country Dance and Song Society.
Pinewoods is a dance camp in Plymouth MA. It runs folk dance sessions all summer long. RSCDS1 Boston runs three sessions (one in conjunction with CDSS1) all in a row. It's my fifth year going to Pinewoods for some length of time. It was my first year going for all three.
The 6-10th was ESCape, a brand new session siphoning dancers from the now defunct ESS (English Scottish session) and English/American weeks --it featured English, Scottish, and Contra dancing (singularly and in combination!). The 10-13th was Scottish 1 (which most of us call "session 1", because SCDers like to pretend no one else uses Pinewoods), and the 13-18th was Scottish 2 (/"session 2"), which are SCD-exclusive (well, mostly) sessions.
Jegus I have danced a lot in the last two weeks. But you wanna know the nice thing about the last year? Over the last year, I've been averaging something like four dance nights a week, and two of them (Candidate class and Highland) have been particularly intense. I may be in better shape now than I have *ever* been. My legs are great and powerful <3.
Which means that while I am tired (like, almost fatigue-sick tired...look, I did pretty good on sleep, but last night was last party and I didn't turn in until five), I am not broken. My legs are a bit stiff and sore, but still work --I made it through the entire first night ball at ESCape without ever even feeling it. This is an awesome feeling, and makes me super excited for Scottish on Monday night, and Highland on Wednesday, and whatever it is I wind up doing Tuesday.
I'm really happy. I'm not sure if I wanna bother doing a good-bad-ugly for it (and jeepers, I still owe y'all the rest of the NYFaeFest report), but I will try and write up/collate some random report type thoughts and tales.
Tl;Dr: it was awesome.
Teaser: Did you know that bras and swords are basically interchangable?
~Sor
MOOP!
1: the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Boston Branch); Country Dance and Song Society.