INTRODUCTION
I am very pleased to be able
to make it to this year’s Sasha Celebration Weekend. Looking forward to sharing
a couple of days with some lovely people and some amazing Sashas in what looks
like a really nice venue. Wasi is coming
along too. He is quite an old hand at Sasha meetings and he will be able to reacquaint
himself with old friends! The theme is National Costumes and with my Austrian
background I am going down the Dirndl and Lederhosen route. To make it more
interesting, I am aiming to have my kids dance around a Maypole, which is still
in the ‘how the heck am I going to make one of those?’ stage. But a lot of
other things are coming together nicely.
Only a limited number of kids
can come along, for obvious reasons, and that provoked a certain amount of
discussion, not to say argument, among my girls. They ALL wanted to come. In contrast, I could
only persuade 3 of the boys to take part (they are the ones who pulled the
short straw!). In all, I am planning to take 11 of my Sasha kids, although I have
yet to square this with Janet Mayhill Dabbs and Tricia Jackson, who are
organising this event. (They truly deserve a medal!)
I had to tell my girls that
they would be chosen on a limited criterion: who can stand really well, and, if
necessary pose without falling over! From that group I was able to choose 8
girls, a mixture of early and late Trendons, red heads, blondes and brunettes.
My Götz girls lost out, alas, but I am taking along Lukas, who is a Götz boy. I shall gradually introduce all the kids who are coming with me.
MOLLY
A 1972 Trendon puddle eyed blonde,
now wigged. She is wearing a Dirndl dress made by Stela Aranghelova. I asked
Marilyn Hotchkiss to make her a new blouse. All the girls socks are knitted
by Rosie Laird. Dancing shoes made by Lisa Hartley.
