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Welcome to the Lazy
Boots Western Dancers web site. Click
the News button to find the latest
additions to the web site.
Our new dance!!
Steel Toe Caps
released 15 Mar 08.
There is
information about our various dance
festivals with
some photos from previous events and opportunities for you to
get a booking form for future events. There is also information about the various dance
classes we run
in and around Corsham, with lists of what we have been teaching.
We are available for
teaching at festivals, large and small, demonstrations at
village fetes or for charity events. We can also liven up
your corporate events and birthday parties etc. For
contact details see our Bookings
Page.
And finally there
are some links
to various web resources that we have found useful, such as step
sheet archives, music sources and general information resources
about country music.
About Lazy Boots
Lazy
Boots Western Dancers are principally Stuart McGlary and Ann Helmore.
Both of us are qualified dance instructors with the D&G School of
Western Dance. We currently run one partner and 6 line dance
classes per week, as well as organising 4
Western Dance Festivals and teaching at
various other events each year. But how did it all start?
In the late 1990s,
we were running our own line dance classes in and around Corsham and
Chippenham, Wiltshire and would occasionally meet at the monthly dance
nights at Corsham Triple C.
In May 2000, we
joined forces and started dancing as partners at the local
Triple C
Western Dance Club, rapidly becoming regular attendees at various C&W
dance events in the South West, but still only teaching line dance at
our classes. The first foray into partner dance instruction was at
the Double B Western Dance Festival in Trowbridge, Aug 2000, where we
stood in at the last minute when the booked instructors were unable to
attend. From that event we picked up what was to be the first of a
series of regular invitations to teach line and partner dances at the
B&C Dance Ranch events run by Colin & Bernice Caddick at
St Audries Bay
and Bournemouth. It was also at this point that Lazy Boots Western
Dancers identity was born.
Further invitations
to teach came in from a wide range of event organisers including Ann &
Brian Bambury of Dance One and Coral & Ivan Burton from Montana Western
Dancers. By the end of 2002 we were teaching at about 5 or 6
events a year and attending about another 10. Hardly a spare
weekend!! We had also embarked on our formal training with the
D&G
School of Western Dance under the expert guidance of
Pim Humphrey and
passed our Part 2 Line & Partner exams in Nov 2002. It was around
this time that Colin & Bernice Caddick announced that they were planning
to retire in 2003 and asked if we would like to take over their existing
festivals. Since then we have
continued to run the Halloween & Spring Fever Events at St Audries Bay,
however, the Valentine festival has moved from Bournemouth to Aberavon
and we have recently added a partner only festival, Christmas Crackers,
to the program at Aberavon.
In mid 2005, we took over the
instructor positions at the
Triple
C WDC in Corsham, our local partner dance class, when Richard & Ann
Hexter decided that they wanted to retire from teaching.
Our Policy
We almost totally use Country &
Western music for all of our teaching in classes etc, we do not follow
all the disco, latin and techno trends. Our accent is on having
fun, and entertaining people. We do not compete or aim to develop
competition dancers. We teach people to dance to enjoy
themselves!!
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Contact Information
- Telephone
- 01249 712257 or 07968
004327
- E-mail
- General Information:
stuart@lazyboots.co.uk
Webmaster:
webmaster@lazyboots.co.uk
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