ron.mackey
RE: CRIBS (was square vs contra)
Oct. 4, 2001, 2:24 a.m. (Message 27718)
> P.S. Have you considered that it may also be necessary to redesign your
> cribs so they are easier to understand quickly?
>
> Norah Link (Montreal, QC)
Hi, Norah
Have you ever thought that, as cribs are not the
instructions for the dance but individual aide memoirs, it would be
more useful to ask your class to write their own cribs and then
explain (or do - without prompting) the dance the following
week? They would then have to think about what they had been taught
and would learn to emphasize what was the essence of the dance
to_them_as_ taught/learned_.
Published cribs are a fairly new phenomenon. All those I use to
get from others in the past were hand written (usually by Doctors-
pace x) on the backs of envelopes which had been opened with a thumb
and I still have quite a store of those in a large envelope. Useful
when reviving a long discarded dance.
If I use others cribs nowadays I usually find that I have difficulty
in imagining the dance even after reading it twice through. My own
notes present no such problem - to me!
I am in sympathy with Adam but Pilling can be wrong where one's own
notes never are - are they?? :-)
Cheers, Ron :)
< 0 Ron Mackey,(Purveyor of Pat's Party Pieces)
'O> Mottingham,
/#\ London. UK.
l>
xxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx