strathspey@strathspey.org:44040

Bryan McAlister

Re: Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing

Feb. 2, 2006, 10:26 a.m. (Message 44040, in reply to message 44035)

I think it depends on the quality of the grass - a flat firm lawn is 
fine, but tiring, a stretch of grass of dubious flatness, long grass, 
rabbit holes, snakes, midges, spiders, slugs, crunchy snails etc. needs 
wells.

In message <xx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>, xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx writes
>Ron wrote:
>
>"After  all the Fetes, Garden Partys, Lawn Dances (as some used
>to be called) and  various other events I have attended over the years I
>have only rarely  seen dancers in trouble over the surface underfoot.  A
>bit damp  sometimes, worms to slip on, a bit bumpy - but nothing to
>hinder the  dancing."
>Fair enough.  I suppose a nicely mown lawn would do as  well as (or better
>than) many of the really hard floors that one often has  to dance on.  When I
>made my original comment I was actually thinking  of the farmers' 
>fields I used
>to dance on.
>
>I don't know about anyone else, but I find dancing RSCDS  style on a rough
>field or even a rough lawn really tiring.  Not  that I do it often.  But from
>what I remember, it's probably skip  change that I find the most challenging
>step to do on a rough surface.
>
>FWIW,
>
>Chris, New York.
>
>
>
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Bryan McAlister