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Dance Season No 11: CurlyWurly: Supremacy

Last night's CurlyWurly was astonishingly good. I'm not going to try and analyse all the factors which were at work here.  The likelihood is that others would chose different priorities to me.  What I will say is that I had a great time, as good a time as I had at any venue anywhere ever (my venue list has 101 names on it). The feeling exceeded the expectation I was feeling knowing the roster of super dancers I was about to encounter.  It was the kind of dance I enjoyed 3 years ago when CW first came onto my radar: all the more welcome because I thought that the kind of dance night was extinct.  I feared there was no demand for social dancing to nice music where dance style didn't matter, and that enjoyment of dance was the only goal.  Tango, WCS, blues and slow Ceroc co existed in harmony because no one form was carried for more than a couple of dancers.  More than a hundred people turned up I reckon. The first timers said they'd enjoyed it, those re...