strathspey@strathspey.org:44041

Bryan McAlister

Re: Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing

Feb. 2, 2006, 10:34 a.m. (Message 44041, in reply to message 44040)

D___, spellchecker was over officious - for "Wells" read "Wellies"


In message <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>, Bryan McAlister 
<xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx> writes
>I think it depends on the quality of the grass - a flat firm lawn is 
>fine, but tiring, a stretch of grass of dubious flatness, long grass, 
>rabbit holes, snakes, midges, spiders, slugs, crunchy snails etc. needs 
>wells.
>
>In message <xx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>, xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx writes
>>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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Bryan McAlister