Hi John and Don,

    The "English" people in the clip you mentioned are mostly
Kiwis but close enough. That was taken at our monthly
dance when we were joined by a contra tour from the USA
and also John and Hilary Turner from the UK.

    We often get a large group of teens coming because I used
to run barn dances for them. As a 'reward' for supporting the
contra dance I usually have Waves of Tory for them half way.
They are so 'good' at dipping and diving that they want it even
faster than normal, so they  form a set of 7 couples and
dance double speed while the rest are dancing the 5 couple version
to the 48 bar music.

> English people dancing Waves of Tory:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qtN-kw6Mg
>
> Note how the timing, styling, speed are all completely different, especially
> on the Dip 'n' Dive - the Irish take their time, the English rush through
> it.

Scroll down the page http://christchurch.contradance.nz/past.html
to February 2012 to see more the dances
we ran at that time when we had the contra (and English) visitors.

Cheers, Bill
PS - Similar visits will happen Feb 2016, so NZ will be the place
for contra gypsies.