strathspey@strathspey.org:27803

Don MacQueen

Re: Pre-Booking

Oct. 9, 2001, 2:59 a.m. (Message 27803, in reply to message 27792)

I think the objection that was raised was towards excessive, not 
occasional, pre-booking.
Especially in situations where most of the dancers pre-book most of the dances.
Personally, I have never objected to the practice of pre-booking a 
small number of dances, but I do object to the practice of 
pre-booking almost every dance.

-Don

At 4:56 PM -0400 10/8/01, xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote:
>I agree that pre-booking is not always appropriate but consider this
>situation:
>The hall is large, there are 200 dancers.  You have a friend you very much
>want to dance with but said friend always seems to be so far away at the end
>of a dance, or is sitting on the opposite side of the hall, that if you don't
>pre-book something, you may never get that nice dance.  By the time you have
>made your way over to the friend he/she has probably found another dance
>partner. 
>Cheers,
>Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, NH USA


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Don MacQueen
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