Keith Napier

Keith Napier created and published an Index of Scottish Country Dances, including both RSCDS and non-RSCDS sources.   A feature of the index was the figure index, allowing a teacher to find a dance with a nominated figure, dance type and difficulty of dance.

edition was published in 1976 and the 5^th in 2002 covered over 9,500 dances.  The index has been incorporated in the dance data index now available on the Internet.

Keith taught several classes and was MC for many socials during the 1970s and 1980s.   More recently he has supported his wife Morag and some other Sydney teachers in the provision of recorded music and as the custodian of Branch equipment for classes.  He was "Mr Music" for the three groups trained for the Preliminary Test and Teachers Certificate by Morag.  He has also transferred music to short cassette tapes which were easier for teaching purposes and created an index of recorded music available in the Sydney Branch collection.

Keith was chairman of organising committee for the Australian Winter Schools held in Sydney 1981, 1988,1995 and on the committee for the school in 2002.

He was awarded life membership of Sydney Branch 1989 and currently is secretary of the Branch.