strathspey@strathspey.org:27929

Loren Wright

Re: Loch Leven Castle

Oct. 18, 2001, 4:46 p.m. (Message 27929, in reply to message 27921)

> Then, after a 2 couple promenade, the men have to change places in 2 bars,
> while the ladies ... smile, hop up & down on the spot, wait patiently for
> their lord & master to return, or stifle a yawn?

I don't think this is any worse for the women than the itsy bitsy steps that
men regularly have to execute in promenades, allemandes, and knots.

> This is what I call a flawed dance, with unsatisfactory transitions and
> nothing particular to recommend it.
> Why does anyone in the RSCDS bother to teach it, when there are so many
> other interesting choreographies to be tried?

I think the biggest reason that people want to teach and dance it is the
music!  Somehow the inconveniences of the choreography seem worth it.
Perhaps someone should write a different dance to the same music?

Loren Wright
Nashua, NH