These areallARCHIVED pagesof the30th anniversary event. of Great Alne 2013, when - Karin Bellaart from The Netherlands - was our main teacher of International Dances. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Evening Dance or Day visits welcomed: Great Alne Long Weekend: Our site's Home page. Contact us -here. Do refresh any page tab of your own, as you check for latest information. Look what WE are doing on these sunny bright mornings this weekend & join us.
View the detailed programme of Dance/Song/Activities: click above to view each day.
Join dance, music, song & more. Share a joyful, active Spring break !
This COMING weekend. It's our 30th anniversary event. OK - Spring is late - Cool ! Visit & enjoy what there is at Gt Alne. Karin Bellaart from The Netherlands - is our main teacher of International Dances. KARIN's REPERTOIRE from which her dances will be selected, you may view it here.
********************************************************************************************************************************** NEW Friday Innovations in our Anniversary Year - We BEGIN with a walk on cLICK FRIDAY - then International - then a sit-down roast meal. A wonderful Geoff Cubitt Contra follows: bourées for LNE.
Welcome to the white and raftered Memorial Hall of this beautiful English Warwickshire village. We're ALL learners at some activity!Many are experienced in dance/music.We have skills to share.
Much goes-on over this April long w/e. Drop by at ANY time! Want to come ? Wish to know of something on the Programme? Over the Long Weekend - try a text to 07725 895 705. Poor signal at the Hall, but will endeavour to respond. Pre-booking you do not need !
This w/end, Join in ! come along !Participate in a wonderful series of folk events ! We ask though please, that you make at least a small, apt financial contribution ! Fri Eve, Sat & Sunday - wonderful for visitors sampling, as well as for those staying. Monday- Summarising workshops, served lunch - Oversley Wood walk - A special day.
Countryside & surroundings of Great Alne village here in the UK are delightful. Come out - explore : Especially lovely in Spring. See how delightful the area is - try some of the suggested WALKS - SAMPLE over the Long Weekend - varied dancing, music, song, handbells, walking, cycling & more. Ideas of where to stay when you visit: on the Accomodationpage. Map: route directions (with a selection of interesting local walks) - on the MAP - etc page. NB. Our Catereringlets you enjoy all this without need to prepare sandwiches, or cook at home.
Copyright James Hobro 2005. CLICK pic. to enlarge.
What happens at Great Alne each year?
Theextended weekend explores varied traditional folk activities & dance from around the world.
You can sample a whole range of different kinds of dancing here. Always with some General International Dancing - Last April, we enjoyed also the lively rhythms of BalkanDances;Hambo, Cajun,Scottish - Then there was French with Pete Grassby with an extra session of Set Bourées - Not to mention the fun of Border Morris or undoing those patterns plaited around the Maypole. In 2013, hope for Morris in the sunshine: Maypole dancing out on the green & patterns through the daisies.
Join to play music, shareSong,ringhandbells & much more.
Welcome to the white and raftered hall in this beautiful English Warwickshire village. We're ALL learners at some activity: Many are experienced in some aspect of dance/music: We have skills to share. Join and participate with us in the dancing, music & song.
********************************************************************************************************************************** Our musicians on stage - most are members of thecLICKCole Valley Ceilidh Band - based in the Midlands.
********************************************************************************************************************************** HERE: The most skilfully entertaining of web folk videos ! cLICK BELOW to PLAY - An ace quiet, spontaneous moment. Sunday Eve LNE 2008. (Try then to stay on THIS website, without getting distracted within YouTube.)
Pete Grassby shows simultaneously his skills both as dancer AND Musician: whilst he waltzes with Linda Moon. HOW brilliantly accomplished ! The melodeon & its straps are closely around Linda's back. Pete you hear entertainingly to remark "She can't get away".Visit Pete Grassby's website - or that of Coventry based Aardvark Ceilidh Band which Pete leads (and founded).
******************************************************************************************************************************** Personal items in the hall. Leave in view in front of the stage, else at the very back of the stage. Please NOT at the hall sides. A danger for dancers ! Do NOT let your bag or chair become an obstacle causing a dancer to FALL! ********************************************************************************************************************************
You may presently notice still, a little duplication here on the website. We're almost through major site overhaul.
This was much helped last year by a special adaptation from "Weebly" - the hosts of our site, - Greatly appreciated, this allowed our second line of available "pages" under the title picture. André as web-writer recently personally invested in a newer, but faster laptop. This greatly speeds the more cumbersome page-juggles which overall Weebly changes now necessitate whenever editing changes are made.
We trust that regular site visitors will like the changes; and all of the improvements longterm - especially those from Karen. She put forward (and now manages) our brill "Early Bird" option.
Programme & details for THIS April's long weekend are prioritised. The site Feb.'13 was entirely copied and stored. Any anomalies, duplications etc will now gradually be tidied-up. Meanwhile - please helpfully SPECIFY any links not working or mistakes which you see.
Social dancing On Friday, Saturday & Sunday evenings in 2013. Bonus late dances too! Hot drinks are included in the entertainment breaks! There will be many similarities to 2012. Find out what dancing happened in Apr 2012. Click here onLast Event p1 or the Last Event p2pages. **************************************************************************************************************
Workshops You'll find Morris Dancing, Song groups and Handbells outside when we have sunny weather! At popular times, these parallel workshops take place while there is dancing in the hall.
Workshops in dance, music, song & much more : through the day on Sat, Sun, & Monday.
Nel from The Netherlands shows some International Dance steps.
Activities take place in a lovely area of English Warwickshire countryside.
The excellent floor of the villages' World War I Memorial Hall allows comfortable dancing in pleasant surroundings.
You are most welcome visiting singly: Equally with a partner. Copyright; Tony Heaton 2004.
From the Netherlands, 4 teachers have visited: Nel van der Laan guides (above) Karin Bellaart made several visits too: also Emmie Buisman and Mariette. ***********************************************************************************************************************
NB Sides of the hall are NOT a safe place for personal items, or to set-up chairs! **********************************************************************************************************************************
********************************************************************************************************************************** How Great Alne Long-Weekend is made available for your participation in 2013:
Pauland Nicola, on a small committee, have shared in the tasks, especially preparation & finance.
This enabled its 29th year to have been successfully completed. It will continue to be available - for the participatory enjoyment of the many who take part. André sincerely appreciates these two friends who have taken on much "spadework" in our small team.
This has allowed the ideas, effort and vision that many individuals put into the Great Alne Long-Weekend - now with an even further extended committee - to be a continuing reality through into the future. *************************************************************************************************
Why Great Alne Long-Weekend happens: 1)To foster contacts ABROAD. Topromote friendship & understanding through sharing folk dance, music & song.
2)To give opportunities for dancers, musicians and everyone coming to try out different skills.
It's a chance for you to try doing something new!
So when you visit for a particular dance or workshop, why not come sooner and sample something else too. Or perhaps instead, stay to sample what comes next.
No matter if the standard seems to be high. Better dancers/musicians/singers are there to SHARE their skills. And do please bring an instrument to try a few tunes in the friendly company of one of the music workshops. "Great Alne" is organised as an opportunity to discover, exchange to pass-on these joys & skills.
3) Gt Alne Long Weekendaims ESPECIALLY to give young participants an idea of the fulfillment - That is to be found in active participation in all kinds of folk dance, folk music and traditional songs.
We hope to encourage all to come sharing a tolerant spirit - Allowing everyone to enjoy the activities, and to be able to sample something different. The PRICE STRUCTURE tries to reflect these principles. The workshop leaders are not paid. - Most leaders who regularly contribute just enjoy the weekend by participating in the workshops of others. **********************************************************************************************************************************
Note: YOUR responsibility is for YOUR SAFETY if dancing, walking, cycling etc. Parental responsibility is for safe, sensible behaviour of YOUR children. Sides of this hall are NOT a safe place for personal items, or to set-up chairs. Please generally take back a chair you've used as you get up to leave it. Do NOT let your bag or chair become an obstacle causing a dancer to FALL! **********************************************************************************************************************************
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Thanks
Considerable thanks are due to all of the many contributors to each of the annual Great Alne Long Weekends. Individual generosity has allowed the structure of "open exchange" of music, dance and other activities to continue, and many have freely given much of their time, energy and travel.
- Thanks for 2010 were due to -
Janet Woolbar for selecting a variety of lovely dances and for coming, despite great personal difficulties, to show these so well. To Dalila Heath for bringing her sunny personality, and more lovely dances, but from Israel and from her Armenian roots.
Especially though, to those who gave much, but wereable to be rewarded through participation, rather little.
Most particularly thus thanking - James Eisner who shared his wonderful skills in leading part song. Staying locally, he brought his wife Louise & little Benjamin. Sue Rosen for her brilliant calling for the Sunday evening Contra and to Bruce, Meg and all who played in the band. Then to Pete Grassby for his wonderful music and ace couple dances for Sunday's Late Nite Extra. Also to Jo & Guy for having so kindly made their home available for two of our teachers to stay.
*********************************************************************************************************************************** The 2009 Great Alne website still has some archive interest. You may revisit the older layout of previous years if you - cLICK here. This will take you across to our older website layout Great Alne 2009's Home Page. ***********************************************************************************************************************************
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