Cambridge Dancers' Club
General Announcements
Easter Term
The Easter term began on Monday 30th April 2012. Please check the timetable for further information - especially for the changes to Clive's Monday evening classes.
CDC T-shirts
The new club T-shirts have arrived. People who pre-ordered these should be able to collect and pay for them at classes at St.Columba's (or at other venues by prior arrangement). There are also a few spares for sale.
Ballroom and Latin Medals
For those who took the medals tests last term, the detailed marking sheets, certificates and medals plaques have now arrived and are available for collection at St.Columba's.
Varsity
Cambridge won the 2012 Varsity competition.
Email Problems
The CDC has been experiencing various problems with its email system over the past year. However, some of them seem to be down to the mis-recording or bouncing of email addresses taken from membership forms. There is some hope that the other problems may be lessened if we can at least clean up the mailing list.
If you are a member of the CDC and believe you registered a valid email address with us (rather than a pretend one or none!) but have not been receiving announcement emails at all, then please contact the webmaster using the email account which you want to use for CDC correspondance. That way there can be no mistake over specific characters in the address. You will also have to provide your full name (as per the membership form) in order for us to accurately identify your record on the system and correct it if necessary.
Anyone who is a member of the CDC and also a current member of a Cambridge college, but who did not just receive a separate invitation to dance for a cuppers team, is definitely in the set of people for whom we hold faulty information.
Upcoming Events
The end of the CDC ?
At the AGM (on Friday 4th May 2012 at the University Centre), there was no-one willing to stand for many of the crucial executive posts which are about to be vacated (people do leave Cambridge sometimes!) and without which the club simply cannot function.
If you value the existence of the CDC, consider whether you could fill the role of President, Vice-President in charge of Classes, Secretary or Publicity Officer and get in touch.
For more information, see the committee page.
Cuppers
The local intercollegiate battle of the ballroom for 2011-2 will take place on Friday 15th June 2012 at the University Centre from 7:30pm onwards (interleaved with General Dancing). Start looking around now for fellow CDC members in your college and see if you can form a team. Former members of Cambridge colleges are eligible to dance for their old college and townies can dance for The Town - an honorary college. There are also some Open contests.
Current members of colleges should have recieved an individual invitation by now (see email problems above!). Alumni who wish to dance for their college team will need to make contact themselves. If they don't know any current college members to ask, they should email the alumni officer or the webmaster.
Townies who want help making contact with other townies can also email the webmaster to be given a virtual meeting space for this. Otherwise you may be able to form partnerships when registering on the day itself. Though that doesn't then leave much time for practising a routine!
Summer Ball
You are cordially invited to the CDC's Summer Ball 2012, to be held at The Burgess Hall, which as usual has a masquerade theme. Doors open at 7:30pm, where you may expect punch and nibbles. The Umbrella Big Band will be performing, and you may expect spectacular demonstrations from CUDT and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Team.
Date: Friday 22nd June 2012
Venue: The Burgess Hall at St Ives Leisure
Time: 7:30pm until 1am
Dress Code: Black tie, Masquerade
Transport: Coaches to the ball will depart from Queens Road coach stop, Cambridge (behind Queens College) at 7pm, returning 1am.
Prices:
Standard Ticket: £25
Transport surcharge: + £5, if you want a place on the coaches
Early Bird discount: - £5, if payment is received before Saturday 9th June
CDC Member discount: - £2.
To pay for your ticket, please send a cheque for the correct amount addressed to Cambridge Dancers' Club along with an SAE (Stamped Addressed Envelope) to: Lucy Moseley, Flat 3 King George Court, 26 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9SE. Tickets will also be on sale in the near future from committee members at GD and selected classes.
Feel free to ask any questions, just email Lucy on events@cambridgedancers.org.