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Beavercreek Line Dancing Club in Horley, Surrey, UK
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My Name is
Chris Bevis and I was born in London. I started Ballroom and Latin
American Dancing at the age of 10 and gained all my medals at both junior
and senior levels. My dream was to have my own dance school.
I was introduced to line dancing through a friend and attended classes of
the Gabby Hancock of Sussex Ranch Branch at Haywards Heath and achieved my
medals and teaching exams with her.
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It is pleasing
that after many years of sitting exams for the IDTA I am now a member of the
IDTA.
I attend various
clubs around West Sussex and I am very lucky to be accompanied to classes
and social events by my husband - Roy (who after much nagging by me) gained
his bronze medal - with honours - in couples dancing.
My Mum also used
to accompany me to some classes and to the social events, but sadly died in
February 2007. She enjoyed the company of many dancers and was known to many
as "Mum Jean". This was a very hard time for me as four days after she died
Roy went into hospital for major heart surgery. Without the world of line
dancing and the good friends it provides, I do not know how I would have
survived.
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Phil Carpenter
Married to Caroline, we
started line dancing together about 15 years ago and I very quickly
became interested in choreography and have so far released about 40
dances. 2 of these dances have been accredited on the Linedance Fever
collection of cd’s. Namely: “TOUCH’N GO” and “2 TIMES”. My most
successful dance to date, which has been published in “UP COUNTRY”
magazine, and has been danced around the country, is titled “A LOVE
WORTH WAITING FOR”. I have also had a dance published in “Linedancer”
magazine entitled:” WHEN IT’S OVER”.Caroline has suffered over the
years with my constant requests of her to try out my new dances and
offer her opinion on them. We have not yet fallen out, much to my
surprise! I first visited “Beavercreek Linedance Club” 12 years ago,
at the invitation of Roger, to come and teach my latest dance, at that
time, which was:” What D’ya Know”. I enjoyed the evening so much I
stayed, and have tried to become an active member of the club ever
since. It is due to “Beavercreek” giving me the chance and opportunity
to teach my dances at the club, that I have gained the valuable
experience and confidence needed to help me in my dance instruction.
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.A result of this, I have
been given the opportunity to teach at different venues and festivals
in the U.K. and had the pleasure of being invited to teach at classes
in Cyprus and on a number of occasions in the U.S.A. This all
culminated in being asked to run the clubs’ new Wednesday evening
class. I tried to put my own stamp on the evening and make it
different, by introducing dances not being done on Monday night’s and
to make it more of an upbeat pace for the duration of the evening. I
ran this class until 2004 when Caroline & I took a break from dancing.
It was at this time we obtained a dog, Buster, a Springer Spaniel, who
got all our attention. An invitation by Chris and Roy to their Wedding
Anniversary party, resulted in our return to Line dancing.
Having returned to the Wednesday night class and attending various
social evenings that Chris & Roy put on we are now regulars to the
club. On our return we soon found that we had forgotten all the old
dances and had to start all over again. The taste for choreography
quickly returned and I soon started choreographing dances again,
which, Chris & Roy have kindly allowed me to teach to the class. I
also help out Chris with teaching Golden Oldie dances that the class
want to learn. These tend to be reviews for the long time serving
dancers or a completely new dance for the more recent members, either
way; I think and hope the class enjoy these dances. My personal hope
for the future is to have greater success with my own attempts at
Choreography and that the class allow me to continue to teach these
dances to them and that they enjoy them.
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