Fourth Lesson

Firstly, we all learnt how to waltz with a partner. I was with Isabella because we are similar heights and Mrs.Niven was teaching up where to put our feet and how to use different movements. After doing this by ourselves and with partners, we all went down to the dance studio again and practised. After a while we came up with a beginning to our promenade piece. There would be a horseshoe with some of us and all of the audience, with a few couples dancing in the centre. All of the boys both in the centre dancing, and in the horseshoe would leave to one side, to give the idea that they were leaving for war. We then all learnt the song 'Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag' by Spike Jones (1942) that goes:

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile

While you've a Lucifer to light your fag

Smile boys that’s the style

What’s the use of worrying

It never was worthwhile

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.

After the boys have left. All the girls are left dancing by themselves in the middle, whilst the remaining girls in the audience join them. Isabella then starts singing the first line of the song and everybody else then joins in. it was a productive lesson, and I can tell we will get a lot done now we have the beginning to our piece.