strathspey@strathspey.org:43966

Thomas G. Mungall, III

Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing

Jan. 30, 2006, 10:54 p.m. (Message 43966, in reply to message 43960)

Steve, Actually in 1921, "The Dancing Times" called a conference of dance
teachers together to discuss the demise of the popularity of the Waltz and
from this conference the standard walk-side-close technique. So, that isn't
too far from what the goals of the SCDS & later the RSCDS. BTW the waltz is
an outgrowth of the Landler an Austro-German folk dance.

Tom