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Chris1Ronald

Chris1Ronald

Re: Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing

Feb. 2, 2006, 5:31 a.m. (Message 44035, in reply to message 43917)

Ron wrote: 

"After  all the Fetes, Garden Partys, Lawn Dances (as some used 
to be called) and  various other events I have attended over the years I 
have only rarely  seen dancers in trouble over the surface underfoot.  A 
bit damp  sometimes, worms to slip on, a bit bumpy - but nothing to 
hinder the  dancing."
Fair enough.  I suppose a nicely mown lawn would do as  well as (or better 
than) many of the really hard floors that one often has  to dance on.  When I 
made my original comment I was actually thinking  of the farmers' fields I used 
to dance on.  
 
I don't know about anyone else, but I find dancing RSCDS  style on a rough 
field or even a rough lawn really tiring.  Not  that I do it often.  But from 
what I remember, it's probably skip  change that I find the most challenging 
step to do on a rough surface.  
 
FWIW,
 
Chris, New York.

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