Dance Everything Stops for Tea 8855
Also known as “London 1930 - 4pm”.
Strathspey · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Ronald Mackey (2005)
- Intensity
- 880 888 800 888 = 75% (1 turn), 56% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Lead/Dance down and up, then cast (DWNUP;CAST)
- Grand Chain for 6 (GCHAIN;6P;)
- Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
- Hands across - 3 - chng-ends (HX;3P;CHNG;)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Strathspey travel
- Online Sources
- Recommended Music
According to the description in the strathspey threads 40296 and finally 40434 this dance seems to refers to tearoom culture in the 1930es.
The deviser describes it as a dance in four acts.
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“The Park” (bars 1–8): The lead down and back and cast represent a pre-tea stroll through the park.
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“The Teashop Foyer” (bars 9–16): The rectangle inscribed by the grand chain represents the foyer of the tea shop.
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“Finding One’s Table” (bars 17–24): The half figures of eight down and then up represent searching for a free table.
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“The Teapots” (bars 25–32): And the “teapots” represent…well, of course…the teapot.
He explicitly also refers to the song “Everything Stops for Tea” as the suggested tune. It was written by Maurice Sigler (tune) and Al Goodheart (lyrics). The song was performed by Jack Buchanan in 1935 and was available on records and featured in Buchanan’s 1935 comedy film, “Come Out Of The Pantry”.
Everything Stops for Tea 3/4L · S32
- 1–
- 2c, 1c following, lead down {3}, and up, 1c leading {3} | 1c cast (to 2,1,3)
- 9–
- G-Chain (2c cross to start)
- 17–
- 1c ½ Fig8 down (cross RH) , repeat up
- 25–
- Teapots R and L
Everything Stops for Tea 3/4L · S32
- 1-8
- 2s followed by 1s lead down, 1s followed by 2s lead up to top & 1s cast to 2nd place
- 9-16
- 2s+1s+3s dance Grand Chain
- 17-24
- 1s dance 1/2 Fig of 8 round 3s (giving RH) & 1/2 Fig of 8 round 2s (giving RH)
- 25-32
- 1s dance RH across (Lady with 2s & Man with 3s) & dance LH across with other couple
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| RSCDS Wirral - Tuesday 8 October 2019 | 2019-10-08 | Andrew Locke | Oct. 6, 2019, 11:58 p.m. |
| Holiday Party DSNYC | 2022-12-15 | Mary Gray | Dec. 9, 2022, 4:41 p.m. |
| Branch 6/27/19 | Mary Gray | June 22, 2019, 4:42 p.m. | |
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| Laurencekirk Dance 16th November 2024 | 2024-11-16 | Brian Anderson | March 20, 2024, 7:50 p.m. |
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| Vana Tallinn - Social | 2019-12-06 | Anton Korobeynikov | Dec. 2, 2019, 11:01 p.m. |
| Desertcreat Tea Dance April 2023 | 2023-04-15 | Ruth Clarke | March 2, 2023, 10:47 a.m. |
| Only 1 Common Figure (Easy) | Ruth Clarke | Sept. 16, 2015, 2:22 p.m. | |
| Summer Dance Belfast 2014 | Ruth Clarke | May 6, 2015, 5:22 p.m. | |
| NJ Party Prep | 2023-03-28 | Mary Gray | March 25, 2023, 8:32 p.m. |
| Beginners Class DSNYC | 2024-01-11 | Mary Gray | Jan. 6, 2024, 5:33 p.m. |
| Budapest Local Club 30.04.2019 | 2019-04-30 | Zsófia Varga | May 2, 2019, 3:34 p.m. |
| Beginners DSNYC | 2022-12-08 | Mary Gray | Dec. 4, 2022, 11:25 p.m. |
| NJ Branch Beginners Class | 2023-02-21 | Mary Gray | Feb. 18, 2023, 4:43 a.m. |
| CGB Summer Course Kuckucksnest 2023 - Evening Programmes | 2023-06-21 | Angelika Schmidkonz | June 13, 2023, 6:33 p.m. |
| Budapest Local Club 14.03.2019 | 2019-03-14 | Zsófia Varga | Sept. 19, 2019, 6:09 p.m. |
| Scotia July 15 | 2019-07-15 | Mary Gray | July 2, 2019, 2:51 a.m. |
| Scotia Experienced Class | 2019-09-16 | Mary Gray | Sept. 12, 2019, 3:09 a.m. |
| NY Branch Basic Class Feb-June 2019 | Sue Ronald | June 22, 2019, 12:24 p.m. | |
| Montreal Workshop and Afternoon Social 2023 | 2023-10-07 | Holly Boyd | Sept. 5, 2023, 10:38 p.m. |
| Scotia Party Jen 24 | 2019-06-24 | Ken Saunders | May 29, 2019, 3:45 p.m. |
| Waltham weekly 2021-11-04 | 2021-11-04 | Sue Ronald | Oct. 28, 2021, 6:27 p.m. |
| Belfast Summer Dance Jul 2022 | Ruth Clarke | June 22, 2022, 9:57 a.m. | |
| HHK Party night March 28 | Elizabeth Buonomo | March 25, 2023, 9:13 p.m. | |
| Scotia/New York Branch End of Year Party June 24 2019 | 2019-06-24 | Xiaowen Yu | May 12, 2019, 2:17 a.m. |
| 2020_03_29 BS&RC Tea Dance 2020 | 2020-03-29 | Gerard Elliott | Feb. 18, 2020, 9:22 a.m. |
| Jeannie Carmichael Ball 2019 | 2019-10-19 | Margaret Mackenzie | Aug. 13, 2019, 6:02 p.m. |
| HHK 2019.09.17 | 2019-09-17 | Keira Hartstein | Sept. 16, 2019, 4:37 a.m. |
| Desertcreat Tea Dance 2019 | Ruth Clarke | Jan. 24, 2019, 1:18 p.m. | |
| New York Branch Experienced 2019-06-13 | 2019-06-13 | Marc Hartstein | June 11, 2019, 8:26 p.m. |
| Tuesday session - 2024.01.09 | 2024-01-09 | Nicola Scott | Jan. 17, 2024, 10:16 a.m. |
| New York branch 2019-09-19 | 2019-09-19 | Wang _ | Sept. 16, 2019, 5:19 a.m. |
| NY Branch 18 July 2019 2nd hour | 2019-07-18 | Deborah Leary | July 11, 2019, 4:36 p.m. |
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| Quorn 200311 | 2020-03-11 | Sue Ronald | March 11, 2020, 11:32 a.m. |
| RSCDS Cheshire Branch Social - 8 June 2022 | 2022-06-08 | Anne MacDonald | May 29, 2022, 6:46 p.m. |
| New York branch 2019-07-25 | 2019-07-25 | Wang _ | July 19, 2019, 6:52 a.m. |
| NY Branch Summer 8 August 2019 | 2019-08-08 | Deborah Leary | Aug. 7, 2019, 7:33 p.m. |
| Westchester 11 September 2019 | 2019-09-11 | Deborah Leary | Sept. 9, 2019, 9:35 a.m. |
| RSCDS New York Branch Experienced Class Feb 14 2019 | 2019-02-14 | Sue Ronald | Feb. 25, 2019, 4:23 p.m. |
| CLUARAN bal 2024 | 2024-05-19 | Odile Paraire | March 24, 2024, 3:17 p.m. |
| DanceScottishNY Nov 11, 2021 | 2021-11-11 | Mary Gray | Nov. 7, 2021, 11:21 p.m. |
| Workshop October 5rd, 2019 | 2019-10-05 | Holly Boyd | Sept. 1, 2023, 8:16 p.m. |
| RSCDS New York Branch Basic Class Feb 14 2019 | 2019-02-14 | Sue Ronald | Feb. 12, 2019, 6:15 p.m. |
| SCOTIA DANCERS NYC End of Summer PARTY | 2019-08-26 | Sue Ronald | July 9, 2019, 5:35 p.m. |
| Westchester 18 September 2019 | 2019-09-18 | Deborah Leary | Sept. 14, 2019, 11:39 p.m. |
| Vienna Whitsun Course 2019_Friday_Welcome_Dance | 2019-06-07 | Beatrix Wepner | Feb. 24, 2019, 9:54 p.m. |
| New York branch 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-18 | Wang _ | July 15, 2019, 4:47 a.m. |
| HHK 2022-04-12 | 2022-04-12 | Peter Price | April 10, 2022, 8:13 p.m. |
| Peterborough & District RSCDS Virtual Summer Social June 2020 | 2020-06-05 | Amanda Peart | May 30, 2020, 12:45 a.m. |
| Quorn GENERAL | Sue Ronald | March 10, 2020, 10:29 p.m. | |
| HHK 2019 Series 1 | Keira Hartstein | Oct. 27, 2019, 6:16 p.m. | |
| Dance Suggestions 2019 | Judith Kowalczik | Dec. 31, 2018, 6:19 p.m. | |
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