Yatro could not have done better!
‘The Sound of One Foot Tapping’
After our news item about the Osho Summer Celebration at Croydon Hall we received some emails asking why the Ceilidh wasn't mentioned. I apologise - I was helping out in another event and wasn't present. I really missed, because, having talked to Yatro, it sounded like a fantastic event and a fitting finale to the celebration.
Yatro said she was inspired to create a mixture of a Ceilidh and Heart Dance and it worked perfectly. Many people said such phenomenal energy was created that they continued to feel it for days after they returned home. In one of the dances it felt like people were levitating as, in a rather challenging, complicated dance, the women were hurled off the ground by their male partners! Yatro said she deliberately chose Ceilidh dances that were wild and silly rather than serious.
A new band The Sound of One Foot Tapping was especially formed for the occasion. As well as Yatro calling and playing the tambourine, there was Sudhi (a professional Ceilidh player) on the fiddle, Christo on penny whistle and keyboard, Bhagat on rhythm guitar, Nishok on bass and Manu on kit drums. Because all the band members came from all over the UK, the celebration weekend was the first time they had all played together. But some had rehearsed in Ashburton and made a tape of that music which was then sent to people further away, like Bhagat, who then rehearsed by themselves to the tape!! Manu was the last musician to join in - and blended perfectly! Yatro said the band was faultless.
How I love the creativity and integrity and sheer joy of my sannyasin friends!
text by Veena – August 2007
