I love the atmosphere of tea dances! Only been to a few, but loved all of them. My first one was on a really cold winter day in Dundee and made me so warm and happy
But I can also imagine it being wonderful in the summer and coming out at the end when the sun is still out and going for a nice wind down drink in a nearby beer garden "The Boat" tea dance after The Champs had a lovely feel about it as you could dance in the sun as well!
Let's have more tea dances! It also means for us mortals who don't live quite so close to events that we're not getting home in the middle of the night! (God, I sound old......)
Bank Holidays and weekends make more sense as a posed to week days as most people who mj etc work and probably haven't retired - is this correct? I wish more retired people kept dancing - although I know dances do happen in community centres etc. so maybe it's more to do about location and numbers that has contributed to the demise of weekday events in larger halls?
*edit* Didn't want to miss out the fantastic tea dance at St. Stephens, Edinburgh recently. That one was a little later than a usual tea dance as it started after a workshop, but there was still a lovely feel to it - less "frantic" than a usual ceroc night (more smooth, slower tunes) and a nice number of people. Plus the venue is ideal - just across the road from a number of pubs....
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