Tea Dancing

So for the last few months, I have been shooting a film about the immensely popular past time of tea dancing. Essentially this consists of old people (although not always) socialising by drinking tea and dancing, in dimly lit dance halls at about one in the afternoon three or four times a week.

A description like that filled me with horror at the prospect of creating a half hour documentary about these people and this past time, however, this is not a film about old folks shuffling, it is filled with, determination, fantasy and even petty teenage jealousy. The people we have met are so full of spirit, and wonder, completely flying in the face of what I imagined before starting out.

We have just finished filming and now embark on the task of bringing all our subjects together into a story that will captivate an audience just like these people have captivated us.