Video Bar!

Hey, I added a video bar! When I first saw the name of the gadget, I thought it might be a place to get a virtual glass of wine -- oh well. Anyway, these are videos of actual English Country Dances! I'm not sure if they change periodically, or if these four will always be the ones presented. **LATE BREAKING NEWS!! IT APPEARS THAT THE SAME 4 VIDEOS ARE STILL HERE (THE NEXT DAY), BUT THEIR ORDER HAS BEEN SCRAMBLED! OMG, WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?!? Just so you aren't forever cornfused, "Jack's Health is the one where the people are on the floor below and have a certain ant-like quality, the BBC Pride & Prejudice clip is the one where everyone is elaborately dressed buts dances like they have a stick up their hoo-hah, and Prince William is the one with just 6 people. The one with the weird little kids is the one with the weird little kids. OK, got it? Good! END OF LATE-BREAKING NEWS; NOW BACK TO OUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING!!** **OK, still later-breaking news!! The videos displayed are totally out of control! "Prince William" has totally vanished, and has been replaced by the Germantown Country Dancers! (Which is actually a much better video, but who knows how long it will last??) Who is in control here? Everybody, check the basement for pods!!!**I didn't get to select them; they're just the ones that came up. But the first one is of "Jack's Health," one of Annette's and my favorite dances. It was filmed at The Ark dance studio, which is on the Duke University campus in Durham, NC. We danced there last year, and are planning to go again in just a few weeks for their annual Sun Assembly Ball. The second clip is the famous dance "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot" from the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. The actual dance is nothing like this presentation; it was totally re-written to give Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy time for some dialog. Our friend Veronica Lane, of the band Full Circle, deconstructed the dance as it's presented here, and we learned it and danced it at a presentation for the Jane Austen Society in Jacksonville. It was great fun! The third dance is "Prince William," which is danced as a three-couple set. The other two are Longways sets "for as many as will" -- the only limit to the number of people who can dance is the size of the hall. The thing at the bottom, with the little kids, is a puzzlement; I don't know why it's here. But then again, I'm not sure why I'm here either!