Behind the Dance » Lifts and llevadas; another week of York Come Dancing: Messrs Bulley & Young are on the scene
“NO, NO, NO” Nouse aficionado and BtD’s newest twinkle-toes Chris Young whines as I callously delete the introduction he spent the last twenty minutes writing. I then, in a form of torture probably unused since Guantanamo was closed, subject him to an eclectic collection of tracks from Miley Cyrus’ latest album, ‘the time of our lives’ and dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s 7-inch version of Thou Shalt Always Kill feat. Pos Plug Won and De La Soul.
Rather gallantly Mr Young battled on, and what follows is his account of the ups and (fall) downs of Sunday night’s YCD rehearsal. Enjoy.
I (Young) first walked into the second week’s practice to find Ed Lewis-Someone doing nothing but standing and talking. What else would a “campus showman” do. His moves, however, looked sleek and, although Ed couldn’t stop looking at his feet, he seemed confident and knew what he was doing. “Competent” is how I described it in my notes. There is a bigger question though – WHO IS ED LEWIS-SMITH. Mr Bulley and myself asked Rhianna Kinchin, who seemed to think he was in “pantos and stuff.” He did (Lewis-Smith, not Rhianna) also mention that he’s currently performing in a one man rock musical transvestite transexual german rock star production at the moment though. His partner Sarah described a part of the dance. “At one point, he pushes me to the floor and I’m meant to crawl back cos I need him.” Should be fun to watch. If you’re into that sort of thing..
It was equally as ominous for Anna Bucks. “Whilst learning new moves, I look confused” she said to me. Still ambitious though, Anna says she wants to change to tap dance. “Neither of us can tap dance though. I can’t spin or wiggle hips either.” As I said, ominous. Digging her never ending hole, she continued, “I don’t really know what I’m doing”. Sensing things were going from bad to worse, Bucks handed me a love heart. ‘Hunk’. Cheers Anna. “I’m hungover you know.” Things can only go up can’t they? If you still somehow want to vote for her, Anna does say that she “loves charity”. To sum up, there’s work to be done in the Bucks camp. She, however, remains her normal feisty self, proclaiming “Foy (ex-campus somebody and second place last year) should look, I’m gonna rumba his ass off.” Ehem. BtD recommends that Mr Foy stay firmly seated.
And now on to our early favorite, Lewis Bretts. His dedication is there, no one can doubt that. He was totally focused throughout practice, as shown by the sweat dripping off his brow, back, crotch and pits. You could tell he was tired. He’s “enjoying a lot more than I thought I would”, with his partner Emily Sargeant saying that he’s “picking it up”. Enthusiastically, they wanted me to see their lift. “Have you seen our lift? Have you seen it?!!”. “No I haven’t! Show me! Show me!” This is the sort of investigative stuff that wins Guardian Media Awards. However, the lift was actually quite impressive. Lewis picked Emily up with ease, gently placing her horizontally on his shoulder, her on her front. Emily then put her hand out as if copying that famous Titanic scene. Rhianna mentioned that we probably shouldn’t talk about the bruises on Miss Sargeant’s feet. Ooops…
Messrs Bulley and Young will be back next week to bring you the latest news from the world of dance.
(from left to right) Sarah Cook, Ed Lewis-Someone’s far more attractive (and in BtD’s opinion, much more likely to be a campus celebrity) dance partner; Ed Lewis-Someone
(from left to right) Nathan Burles; Bucks
(from top to bottom) Kate Winslet; Leonardo DiCaprio
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It may be fairly irrelevant in the context of the article, but isn’t Guantanamo still open?
I tell you what.
My boots are made for dancing (walking). And that’s just what they’ll do.
Also, why are you trying to belittle Ed Lewis-Smith? Surely, for a RAG event like this, you should be building it up so we can raise as much money for our elected charities as possible?
If a dramasoc/happilyeveraftersoc/pantsoc/comedysoc person wrote this article they’d possibly ask who Anna Bucks is; it’s just different circles and the more of them that are represented the better as far as a campus-wide show goes. It’ll attract as many people as possible that way, wouldn’t it?
What on earth!? This article is approximately 80% slagging off Ed Lewis-Smith and 20% commenting on the progress of the dancers. Made worse by the fact that you can’t even get the facts right – “He did (Lewis-Smith, not Rhianna) also mention that he’s currently performing in a one man rock musical transvestite transexual german rock star production at the moment though” (by which I presume you’re referring to ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’).
Actually, that was performed in summer term, and you can even find the link to Nouse’s review of it somewhere on this website. Ed’s now preparing to perform in both ‘RENT’ and ‘Therese Raquin’, a play in the Drama Barn.. In neither of these does he play a transvestite. Nouse, do your research
Campus nobody; Blogs are not reporting, they are the opinion of whoever wrote it on whatever they want. This one is humerous. It’s funny. That is it’s purpose. It also builds up excitement to the upcoming York Come Dancing, something which I am led to understand it does quite well.
I wasn’t present for any conversation between Chris Young and Ed, so I don’t know what was said. Research, however, is not something this blog promises. Chris wrote about a conversation he had with Ed, as he understood it. What Ed said was funny, so we included it. I expect that’s why Ed said it – to be funny. I presume he understood the point of this blog. Otherwise, why would he have brought it up?
Is campus nobody slightly jealous about being just that?
no-one on campus is anybody.
The only thing I find funny about this is Mr Bulley’s spelling:
“This one is humerous. It’s funny. That is it’s purpose.”
Says it all really…
Agreed with The Voice…
Also, Ed Lewis-Smith for Prime Minister!
not with that attitude…
Should Anna really be our YUM chair when she can’t even manage to wear a matching pair of socks?
jim bulley… you have failed in your purpose.
Yes