Thursday, November 26, 2009

Roger's Way

Are you sufficiently stoked yet for the Victorian Christmas Ball? You will recall in A Christmas Carol the mention of a dance named Sir Roger de Coverley. Of course, us Yanks (and Confederates) know it as the Virginia Reel.

But it's not quite the reel deal, as you can see from this performance of Sir Roger from the Gaskell Occasional Dance Society. Notice there's no reeling the set. Instead, couples weave about it:



Yes, Dearest Readers, I am asking the same question: What the Dickens is a penguin doing here?

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