Juan de Fuca Festival

Happy Memorial Day
What a great weekend. I had a great time with the show team in Port Angeles Sunday at the Juan de Fuca Arts festival. We did two shows at the festival; one on the Main Stage and the other at the local Community Theatre. Quick recovery to Leanne who took a fall in the first show and injured her ankle. Get better soon, you have some medals !
We had two great shows despite some technical difficulties at the community theatre. Who would imagine that no one at the theatre would know how to work the lights, and they would have no monitors for the dancers to hear the music. We did luck out though, as the audience couldn't hear the music either and no one knew that we were off the music. I wish I could sit in a window over the stage at every show, it was great to see the look on the dancers faces when they realized I wass up there.
We were fortunate to have such great weather. It was sunny and warm all day. We were able to have a wonderful lunch of fair food in the sunshine. It was also made for a beautiful ride home through the peninsula and an amazing ferry crossing. I was really lucky to be third from last car on for the 7:15 ferry. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Also great thanks to the devoted parents who made the trip to Port Angeles for these shows.
That's all for now, keep practicing for the Oregon state championships

back from Ireland/ Comerford feis

Hello everyone

Just back from a quick trip to Dublin. It was a very interesting trip this time. I spent the day Friday with my friend Liam who teaches in Boston. He had to renew his Irish passport, and we spent the day doing that, had lunch and lots of shopping on Grafton and O'Connell streets!! The commission meeting was good. We elected new officials for the coimisiun, and alas I was not elected the new President, oh well next year perhaps. We also voted on some issues. Two good things we did were 1. get rid of the black tights for senior dancers and 2. stopped them from trying to put a qualification on teams for worlds this year in Phili. It was a quick trip, but I still got to have three full Irish breakfasts!! (that's kinda the point of going isn't it?)

Congratulations to all the dancers who competed this weekend in the Comerford feis. I looked over the results and was happy to receive so many emails and texts with results. It looks like we won many medals and trophies. I hope you are all pleased. Let's keep working hard, the Yeates feis is just around the corner!

xo

R.

Happy Mother's Day

Hello all
I just wanted to wish all the SRS Moms a Happy Mother's Day!!!
I hope you all get a little rest and some good treats from your kids this weekend.
Some of the SRS moms will be spending part of their day at the studio. Please remember we are having a special class combining the pre champs and the prelim kids at 12noon to 1:30. Then the u10 and u12 teams will be meeting for our first 8 hand practice. I am very excited to get this started.

There is also a show in Olympia on Sunday. Patti will be heading up the Wooden Boat show performance!! This show will have local Oly dancers and the show team will also be involved. Have a great show, and enjoy your time in Oly.

We also have two dancers attending the feis in Canada this weekend. Best of luck to Katie Maureen and Kassi. I hope you both get a first or two in you pocket. Remember to have fun and do your best.
That's it for now, talk to you soon
Robert

Traveling Blues

Hello all
I am sitting in San Francisco airport on my way to Reno. I have a two hour lay over. I can't believe I will be spending 10 hours traveling before tomorrow night for a three hour meeting. We better decide some important things. I think I will raise a motion that all dancers will need to wear dyed poodle socks to match their dresses, and now that I think of it wigs too!!! Ah wouldn't Kassi look great with orange socks and wig, or Kayleigh McGuigan in light blue socks and wig. For our school costume we will pick colors by teams. some green, some purple etc. I'm so glad I thought of this. I'm sure that i can get this passed as long as the board understands that it will be very expensive for families to do, they should go for it.
Now back to reality. I saw the design for our t-shirt the other day, and it is pretty kool. It will need a little tweaking, but I think we will have another winner this year. I hope you are all planning your ad for this years program, we will be running another contest. Please remember that Patti and Carin teach for our school too, and they can be the object of your affection in your ad too!!
Oh well, I should be in Reno and at the hotel a little after 1am, do you think I can still win a bit of money and get enough sleep before my meeting? Yeah, I guess you are right, who needs to sleep.
I look forward to working with many of you on Sunday bright and early at the crack of 11am.
xo
R