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Pia Walker

RE: Scottish Country Dancer Magazine

March 9, 2006, 2:06 p.m. (Message 44604, in reply to message 44601)

Actually it was the Scotsman we replied to - The Scotland on Sunday was an
article where A dance organisation got funding for working on dance in
Primary schools and was not capable of advertising this without uttering
negative mutterings about other dance forms - of the top of my head
something like:   "The Gay Gordon will be a thing of the past - we all have
to learn hip-hop now"  Or words to that effect.

Bearing in mind that funding is time-limited.   The average age of schools
teachers are such that hip-hop will have to be taught by teachers from the
outside (I have tried it, and it is great fun - but you realize that you
have muscles in parts of your body, where you did not imagine you had
muscles) - and the fact that it is not hip-hop which in Scotland are danced
at family gatherings - I did not feel that that it was worth getting my
dance-pumps in a twist - plus of course anything which gets any child of
their back-sides is worth a go.

With regards to birling - if you can birl - you are young enough - not if
you are young you can birl.

Pia