First of all:
You don't have to know the dances - Kaz will walk everyone through the dances before embarking on them, and explain all the moves you need to do. You may not know a do-si-do from a left-hand star at the beginning of the evening, but by the end, all will become clear.
We would highly recommend the New Corona Band to others - from the initial e-mails, setting up on the day, getting the party in full swing to clearing up at the end, everything was absolutely spot on!
Rachel & James Gillies
Wedding
Don't worry when the dance goes wrong (as it quite possibly will) - it's all about enjoying yourselves. And when it all comes together, it's a wonderful feeling. Or so I've been told anyway, being the band member with two left feet.
Some of the dances are vigorous and some more sedate. Anyone of average modern-day British fitness levels will manage any of them. The band consider themselves to be averagely unfit, so use them as a yardstick (they also regularly complain about their glasses being half-empty, but it's safe to ignore that).
Dancers generally require partners - conventionally it's male and female, but that's only so you know which of you goes which side. Circle dances are based on a circle (which should come as no surprise), while set dances need sets, or groups, of people - generally a set number of couples but occasionally they're for more unusual numbers of people (Hot Cross Bun features sets of five people, for example).
This is a (non-exhaustive) list of the dances we do:
| Circle dances | The joy of sets | Free format dance |
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[1] That's my fault - it's the Circassian Circle but when you have an amnesiac Star Trek enthusiast like me writing things down, sometimes they go awry...
These are MP3s of some of the tunes we play.