Dance Floor finish

Amazing the differences of opinion on what is a good dance floor finish. One website insists there must be polyurethane or the floor will be ruined and goes on to suggest one type of finish. Another says the dance floor people are keeping the best finish a secret!
A good authority, Ron Gursky, says the best floor is the bare wood with the tiniest bit of wax, applied by mixing it with sawdust.
When it is time for ballet pointe, a "slip-no-more" finish can go on is removable. Rosin is traditional but pretty extreme since it can get caked on.
I am happy with the portable floor's polyurethane. An outdoor locale inevitably has a lot of extraneous material.

Excellent opening to Falmouth's summer

At Arts Alive, the band for the town dance was very good and played a lot of styles of music. Cerise sang beautifully. The dance community heeded my emails and used the floor to good advantage. Great to see old friends and make some new ones. Brian, who runs a climate company out of Stanford and Woods Hole, took the floor with his wife for the Viennese Waltz - a style that often clears the floor. He'll be here half the year, he says, doing the folk dance and joining into the ballroom scene as well.

Watching SYTYCD with relatives

Company came, so the ladies commandeered the DVR TV for a viewing of the dance show.
Relative #1 left the room - Joe.
Relative #2 dancer choreographer daughter-in-law stayed awake and had the comment, "Why do some dancers never pause in their movement? The flow becomes tedious without some variation in the beat no matter how many tricks they have."
Relative #3 sister said,  "Cranking is my type of dancing," and stood up to move - yeah!
Relative #4 other sister-in-law tried to understand the criteria for judging, but the judges are sometimes tedious.
I enjoyed the process. Mary Murphy wasn't as tiresome as usual, but needed to be fast forwarded after a while. Also none of the dancers were obvious final 20 material.

serious company - June 18

We got a batch from Quebec earlier for the house next door. Six adults and three children aged two and under.
Today my sister and family, a four year old boy.
Tomorrow, Sam and Ali with our two grandchildren.
Let summer begin!

Arts Alive Town Dance

Town Dance on Friday 7-9, part of Arts Alive. Our portable dance floor. The band has been appearing at Jack's which was unnamed for a bit due to sign permits. Now closed for liquor license renewal. Or something. Poor guy.
Anyway, Cerise sings beautifully with this light jazz/swing ensemble. Won't be rockin' blues like last year with Johnny Hoy, but maybe there will be a bit of room on the dance floor!
Hopefully the weather will hold - those rainy nights put more stress on the wood.

As summer gears up...

2014 oak pollen was dreadful. I was wondering is life was worth living for a while there at the end of May.
Then it was over, and I realized we were getting nine visitors (three babies) from Quebec, Dave's in-laws with a great rate for them on the house next door. Cleaning, sorting, and gardening double-time, and they're here.
Pine pollen probably has another blast set to attack.
School is dragging on for Falmouth, ending this week for Providence and Dartmouth. Then my first set of house visitors with kids. Our grandson's birthday. My sister and her three year old.
Ali will perform in Sandwich Friday.
What summer trip might we undertake? - not Salsa Star Hector Tricoche at Fete (nice venue) in Providence last night - 9:00 -2:00 AM schedule. The lesson in Salsa on 2 at the beginning and they often start late. Probably very loud and I have a bit of tinnitus already. Not Eight to the Bar the Towers on Thursday. Narragansett is an hour and a half and June 12 is Joe's actual birthday.
SYTYCD has a great line up from auditions. Will my favorites make the cut?

morning dance

My students like to call it dancercize, and I don't see a copyright online, so maybe I'll change the name.
Whatever you call it, it's a wonderful way to start a day, now 9:30 Wednesdays for the summer. I moved the tutored student for the day.
We use the lovely education building at the Falmouth Historical Society, run by a bunch of pleasant people.
The Society opens for tours at 11:00, so we're out of the way on time.
I volunteered as a colonial dame in costume for third grade class tours - great fun and a way to support the society's efforts.