Dancing in Aberdeen

Well a quick trip to Aberdeen meant I decided to go dancing up there on Thursday. Given Thursday is the big night in Edinburgh it was interesting to see that it was the quiet night in Aberdeen (I don't think the icey roads helped attendance though). There was an interesting latin and hip-hop style of music as a whole which made a good and interesting change. Most of the songs I hadn't heard before so it was all new stuff to dance to. I did have a good fun dance when on of my favourate tracks Smooth by Santana (featuring that guy from Matchbox 20) came on. Had lots of nice dances with a woman I've met a few times before and some nice dancing with lots of lovely women I've never met before.

• Almost Pretzel. Start a Pretzel, snatch away the right hand, turn to face then pull her back across into a lady spin.


• Accordian Swizzle Sitdown. From a left high stage of the Accordian go into a Swizzle where you are behind the woman (it takes one and a half rotations to do this) then as you take her hand out pivot to your left as she does the same and sit her on your left knee. Extend and exit out of the Swizzle keeping a double handed stage for the return.


• Secret Move Block. Start a Secret Move, after the woman is out on your right then pivot to face as you raise right high and left low and lock when the woman so her back is turned. Pull on left while slightly moving right to turn the woman quickly back into an accordian.


• Sway into Swizzle Top. Start a Sway (I did a Accordian into Sway I found it worked better). Let go with left as you step back. As you move forward in the Sway take your left to a Swizzle Top position and spin her out catching left.

While waiting around for a while in a pub in Aberdeen afterwards a house song came on with the lyrics The Southport Weekender presumably they were refering to another Southport Weekender. In fact, that site has the song as the background music :D (though the one I heard was a different mix).

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