strathspey@strathspey.org:43964

Richard Goss

Re: Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing

Jan. 30, 2006, 10:20 p.m. (Message 43964, in reply to message 43953)

LOL on the grass vs grass pun.
   
  However this quote suggests another point ""English" country  dances
  on grass, but it's really hard to do in SCD".
   
  The fact that SCD style requires a certain type of floor, whereas
  Scottish folk dancing does not, does point out a difference caused
  by the removal of country dancing from the folk and into the area of
  a practiced art form. I know of no other national dance form that
  requires a special place to be performed, or for that matter the
  complaints about the floor not being sprung, too slippery, too hard,
  too bumpy, not level etc.