Our Principal instructor, Adrian, loves the Slow Foxtrot.

He's been a bit silly in the past and said things like 'I could dance the Foxtrot all day'.

So we called his bluff and challenged him to a 24 hour uninterrupted Foxtrot, and as a reason for indulging this folly, we're raising funds for the East Anglian Children's Hospice Treehouse Appeal.

The dance kicked off at 10.00 am on Tuesday 10th August and finished at 10.00 am on Tuesday 11th, and yes, the official verdict is that, with a real carnival atmosphere over the 24 hours, and with a hall full of people at the end, he proved that 

Yes, he can dance the Foxtrot all day !

So, here are some fascinating statistics:-

- He danced 24 hours non-stop Foxtrot (following Guinness guidelines) from 10am on Tuesday to 10am on Wednesday

- We played 576 tracks of Foxtrot, on an IPOD loop lasting 4 hours 26 minutes, repeating just over 5 times

- Adrian danced with 29 female partners and 5 male partners, rotating partners every 30 minutes

- Adrian's youngest partners were his daughters Charlotte (4) and Elizabeth (6), his eldest were in their 70's

- Three lady partners had never danced Foxtrot before their allotted time

- Adrian danced a guesstimated around 5,000 circuits of Old Newton Village Hall

- Adrian consumed 10 bananas, and far too many cans of Lucozade, Red Bull and Mars Bars to count, provided by Sue and Rod at Bacton Stores (thanks very much)

- Adrian wore only one pair of shoes - (for those interested, one of our new range Red & Black ones worn for a few weeks beforehand)

- Whilst continuing to dance, Adrian had three live radio interviews with BBC Radio Suffolk.

Most important of all, we've raised (so far) over £2,750, including pledged money that we know about.

We've put together a slideshow of photos (which are constantly added to every day) at

www.ballroomexperiences.co.uk/page12.html

(If you are having problems with internet speed or with your application blocking the sound file, try the following page which appears without sound)

  www.ballroomexperiences.co.uk/page20.html

The music, assuming you can hear it, is 'Smile' (now renamed by Adrian as 'Grimace') and appears courtesy of Ross Mitchell.

Souvenirs

If anyone would like souvenirs of the day we are producing the following, all of which can be ordered on the online shop (to be found on the sub-menu to the left):-

- Hardcopies of photos seen on the slideshow for £1 each (please quote the number that appears on the top of each photo)

- A copy of the DVD with all of the photos we've got for  £6.50

- A hardcopy 26 page souvenir book for £10

All proceeds of these will be added to the eventual proceeds.

Further details about the Treehouse Appeal can be found on

www.each.org.uk