Covid Recovery: "Knees Up" English Ceilidh at Cecil Sharp House 21 January 2022

 In 2019 and for several decades before, similar dances have been offered once a month on a Friday night during except during summer. This was the second scheduled event this winter although the first in December was cancelled.

We certainly had 16 people on the floor quite often and it might have occasionally got up to 20.  In normal times, numbers could go over 100 although occasionally it's much less.  Most of the dancers were people who would have been there in 2019 although I did spot at least one completely novice couple.

The organisers were keen to be "Covid-safe" and advertised

• Compulsory Covid Pass checking
• Compulsory LFT before attending
• Compulsory Green/Yellow/Red ribbons for 2019-style/distancing/own partners only choices.

These were enforced with the possible exception of the LTF (If the NHS checker App was set to only show "pass" if the vaccination and test were both in order, then it was enforced) 

Nearly everyone chose a green ribbon. I've noticed before that after the summer, most people seem to either go dancing like it's 2019, stay away and just a very small minority actually go dancing but want restrictions.

 English Ceilidh is fairly athletic and although  dancers tried hard, they were perhaps not as fit as they would have been in 2019 so there were quite a few rest breaks and the dance finished a little early.