This year Victor Harbour rock n roll festival is on again this year. It's from 17th to 19 September. Bands will be playing in Ocean Street and Warland Reserve. There will also be evening dinners at local venues.

Could anyone who is interested in going for a day trip please advise me. We can organise a couple of cars to go in.

Click on this link to see a larger sized picture of the program.

Here's a photo of some of our dancers on the night of Tuesday 17th August 2010. No everyone was willing to be snapped.

Spring is just around the corner in Australia. Some of us wish it would spring forth a bit quicker. Believe it or not, many of us find Adelaide's winter temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius (6 overnight) just too cold. We are spoiled by our wonderful summer sunshine and our seemingly endless kilometres of golden beaches.

Numbers dropped slightly during the cold months, but have still held up very well. We also have a continuing stream of newcomers. That's always a promising sign.

If you haven't been for a while, come and join our merry throng as soon as you can. If you haven't been yet, check us out. I promise it will be worth it. Everyone learns something from coming.

On Tuesday 23/03/10 we concentrated on moves that we could enter from back-step footwork. Note that these moves work equally well with pub-rock footwork, also. Ev decked herself out in some pretty red clothes especially for our movie clip.



We begin with a basic back-step into an overhead turn, with the man turning under anti-clockwise. From there the man turns away and performs a 'comb' of his hair (if he has any!). A 'return' brings us back to the face-to-face position. The lady then goes into a 'neck-breaker' move. We end by going into a carousel move, exited into a 'swizzle-stick'. Beginners can skip this last bit, as the timing needs to be extremely good to perform it correctly. The first three moves are fine for beginners to copy and practice.

Around thirty people attended our class on Tuesday 16th March. That's a pretty good result considering that in Adelaide we suffer from 'March madness'. The month is chock full of events, art festivals, car races and the like. Consequently, many venues notice a marked drop in numbers.

A continual surprise with our class is that numbers were almost exactly even males and females this week.

To help with keeping track of our dancers an send out email bulletins, I have constructed a new database. This week I began collecting any missing contact information. Please let me know if any of your details change.

While email advices can be very useful, they can also be unreliable due to frequent changes in people's addresses. Instead of relying on this except in emergencies, I hope to successfully encourage everyone to check this blog regularly.

This week's email contained information on how to subscribe to the RSS feed.

This (rather poor quality) video is to help beginners at our classes remember how to perform the three basic moves that we use. They are the overhead turn, the cuddle and the push-spin. We will update this with a much better quality video ASAP.



Note that our hands are kept low. In that position the arms are the most comfortable and it's easiest to relax. That's the greatest secret of good dancing. This position also allows the greatest versatility of subsequent moves.

Many thanks to our star demonstrator Ev and to Bernie for cinematography.

Not everyone is happy about hitting forty. But there are times when it's a good number.

On Tuesday 9th March over forty people turned up at the RSL hall for our dance class. Moreover, about ten of them were newcomers. Some had dance experience and simply wanted to learn our local popular style. Others, were completely inexperienced, but pleasingly, they learned very quickly.

A big benefit of large classes is that it rewards the RSL team for their faith in allowing us to use their facility. Turnover at the bar is necessary for them to justify making the effort.

Please don't hold back in encouraging your friends to join our happy group.

No more calls, folks. The slippers belonged to Lorraine.

A big turn-out this week of around thirty people shows that we are in expansion mode.

It seems that even Cinderella nows attends our dance classes. The pair of 'glass slippers' shown was left behind last Tuesday night. Hopefully the owner will lay claim to her (or his??) property.

A steady stream of newcomers is always a pleasing result. Welcome to Mark and Lee who joined us this week.

We are maintaining relatively even numbers with just a few spare females this week, but a couple of ladies are learning the lead role. It's an excellent way for ladies to broaden their dancing skills. They also find out just how difficult it can be for the man to lead well.

I am working on new fliers. Please let me know if you are able to hand some out.

Christmas is here and people will have their minds on other things besides Rock n Roll dance.

Despite that, our numbers have held up quite well. This picture is of some of our members who attended on 22/12/09. A few others had left earlier.

Ev helped us get into the festive spirit with some of her Cypriots of Egypt cooking. She brought some delicious shortbread cakes baked especially for us. Many thanks to her for her kind generosity.

We are looking forward to a big start for 2010. We have a large venue capable of holding a class up to around fifty or more and I will be campaigning hard to get them there. We will still have a class on 29th December.

Merry Christmas to all and best wishes for the New Year. May Santa bring you heaps of great rock n Roll dancing.