Boxing Day was restful: a superb walk up to the Chevin Inn for lunch. Time in the afternoon to watch again some of the great dancing in ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the New Bradford Playhouse by watching my video clips (and later to put some more pictures and video clips up on the net – see below – as promised on the village blog which I edit).
- On the way up to the Chevin Inn, 1/2hr climb on foot from home
- The lunch destination, ready for a pint of Timothy Taylor’s
We’ve called in the Chevin many times for a drink when walking back home from Otley Chevin but have never eaten there (though we quite often ate at sister pub The Stansfield Arms when we lived close to it). The food was good – wild mushrooms and gammon steak for Petronela, chicken liver parfait and braised lamb shoulder for me. The young people serving were very pleasant and efficient, and the Timothy Taylor’s Landlord was an excellent accompaniment. All in all a good experience.
A pre-Christmas treat was the visit to a Christmas performance by young dance students from my village of Menston and their colleagues at Bradford Theatre Arts dance classes. I put a couple of video clips up on the village site which, of course, has concentrated on pupils from the classes in Menston village, run by Stephanie Clements for the past 20 years, but promised to put more here when Christmas cooking was over.
Apologies for the quality; I’m very much a beginner in video and as part of putting these clips up I had to teach myself a video editor (the free version of VideoPad). As is often the case, the program is very good but instructions not so. I may be able to improve the clips with time in the future. Stage lighting can be difficult for photography but it appears to me much more so with video; however, most of the faults are down to my inexperience. The one and a half hour performance was a real joy to watch and I hope some of that comes through in the following eight clips.
Ballet is very hard work and, for me, these performances contradict the frequent complaints about young people, as did the hardworking youngsters making our Boxing Day lunch so enjoyable.
Cratchit Family – http://youtu.be/9SdcIIerEU8
Lights – http://youtu.be/jm11THQecMA
Christmas Joy – http://youtu.be/yIe_EMm2cC0
Song and dance – http://youtu.be/kVXUV4E1DT4
Nic and Molly – http://youtu.be/iLoInAfCHpA
Happy Dance – http://youtu.be/EBP4nkk5ryY
Cratchit Family Dance – http://youtu.be/Xl3wRsQY6hU
Finale – http://youtu.be/LqDBNzZZfLQ
A few pictures
Click on any one to see them larger as a slideshow with captions
March 31, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Yay
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December 28, 2014 at 9:35 pm
Really great to see the clips and photos of A Christmas Carol. Thank you Roger
December 29, 2014 at 1:06 pm
Glad you enjoyed them Stephanie. No doubt you will let all the youngsters know they are here as I don’t have a way of letting them know. By the way, I also put the pic of Molly on pointe and Nic up on my photo blog – grumpytykepix – in a completely different context. Compliments to your daughter for her solo dance; if ever I feel down, watching that will certainly raise the spirits. Delightful! (hope she found her bag).