This dance is dedicated to the set of dancers who trialled The Waverley Suite’ dances on a day of high temperature. In the afternoon the hosts put on the air conditioning. We were all so hot it took some moments to realise that the unit was pumping out hot air. I thought the Spanish title covered very appropriately the espagnole start, the hot air (from both the air conditioning and the dancers), the time of the year we were dancing, the patterns in the dance signifying swirling winds and the way we were all behaving towards the end of a long dancing day! (El Nino - a warm current affecting the Peruvian coast every ten years or so; from the Spanish ‘the child’ short for El Nino de Navidad - the Christ Child - from the arrival of the current at Christmas.)