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Thread #161260   Message #3830351
Posted By: Richard Mellish
04-Jan-17 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: Nyckelharpa on 'Holby City'
Subject: RE: Nyckelharpa on 'Holby City'
I was one of the dancers. Word went out that they wanted extras able to do some Swedish dancing, though in the end it was only a schottis. There were umpteen takes, with the cameras in different positions. Some of the time we were dancing to a previously made recording while Vicki and Jonny mimed, and on one or two of the takes we were dancing to silence -- which is our excuse if we seem to be out of time with the music at any point. The whole experience was "interesting".

The Society for International Folk Dancing supplied most of the costumes including mine, but mine was a Telemark one because none of the Swedish ones would fit round my paunch.