strathspey@strathspey.org:44042

Martin

Re: Eccles Rant - No Answers?

Feb. 2, 2006, 9:04 a.m. (Message 44042, in reply to message 44034)

No, answers, but a comment or two:
> 1. Would you face out on bar 8 (ready to cast), or  would  you complete 
> the
> Petronella turn, and then begin to cast on  bar 9?

Personal taste? proneness to guidy turns?
Need there be a rule (I'm thinking social dancing, not demos) ?

> 2. The instructions specify that second couple move up on bars 11  to  12.
> But, if the aim is to be helpful to first couple, they  should rather 
> step
> up on bars 9 to 10

Typical of written instructions where the timing is often quite arbitrary.
Suc hmatters could well be left to the common sense of thedancrs -- most of 
us have been to school.

> 3. As first couple,  would you retain nearer hands on bar 16, ready for 
> the
> circle with  the second couple.

See above.

Too many rules.
And you wonder why the younger generation is not too keen on SCD?

Martin,
in Grenoble, France.