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Who Got Off Track On This One?

Jan. 29, 2006, 4:32 p.m. (Message 43930)

I don't know who (mistakenly) got the idea that I suggest workshops be
exclusively for 'walking thru ball dances," but that was clearly not my
original message.  (And who even brought up walk-thrus?  No one goes to a
workshop solely to do walk-thrus.  That's just silly.)

A workshop should teach us how to dance BETTER.

My point was:  rather than the workshop teacher springing a new dance on
us--which we won't do that night, and possibly never--it would be just as
easy for them to perfect our footwork, phrasing, handing and formations
using dances to be done _that night_.

If only one workshop leader takes this to heart and saves us from trying to
absorb a dance we don't 'need to know' that day, and helps us correct our
technique using dances from the evening's program, great!  I hope that he or
she teaches a workshop I attend.

I reiterate that we are not all locals who've learned by heart the 16-18
dances on the program.  And the better we execute them, the better for
everyone.

Margaret Sarna