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Ron Mackey

RE: Attracting Young Folks/Music Tempo

May 11, 2006, 12:13 a.m. (Message 45230, in reply to message 45225)

> Try and take a look at their faces in stead - I go for the smiles - it's not
> the ones with their heads bobbing out of synch that worries me, but the ones
> without the smiles.
> 
> And you can only pick up a beat by learning how to listen - how many classes
> teach their dancers how to listen in stead of how to dance?
> 
> Pia


	Oh, yes Pia.   If they don't leave the hall with a big grin on 
their collective faces then you have failed!

	As for the music - but of course.   It's an art form based 
firmly and irrevocably on the music.