strathspey@strathspey.org:28019

ron.mackey

Re: Lead up - which hand?

Nov. 1, 2001, 11:25 p.m. (Message 28019, in reply to message 28016)

> I enjoy a certain amount of flexibility on the dance floor but don't 
> enjoy struggles with people who decide they have a better way than the 
> instruction and method, given. It is nice to know that the correct and 
> corresponding hand will meet mine at the appropriate time.  This does not 
> diminish the scholars that find otherwise. I send high praise to those 
> willing to tackle that job. But change happens universally not individually. 
> We, as individual, can make suggestions and effect a change if persistent. 
> Anarchy creates a less desireable result.
> 
> Bob Mc Murtry
>     
> 

	Hi, Bob
		I can follow this line of argument only so far.   The early 
teachers were really feeling their way to produce something which 
turned out splendidly but which one should now be able to view 
dispassionately and, to some extent, pragmatically.
	This is an art form we are involved in here and not the 
manufacture of universally adaptable machine tools so the rules 
need not be rigid and are not chiselled into stone.
  	To Lara I suggest that if certain questions, such as she mentions, 
are posed by reasonably proficient dancers in a formal class, try 
asking them what they think would be correct.   After only a short 
time it would be evident that, in many instances there can be no set 
rule (or at least, that one rule is as valid as another) and one of 
the important lessons to be learned is that we should learn to think 
on our feet and make judgements based on the capabilities of 
those around us and on what has gone before.
 Rather like Common Law,  in fact??  :))

Cheers,  Ron   :)

 < 0   Ron Mackey,(Purveyor of Pat's Party Pieces)
  'O>  Mottingham, 
  /#\  London. UK.
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