strathspey@strathspey.org:44518

Bryan McAlister

Re: Taking to the floor

March 6, 2006, 9:13 p.m. (Message 44518, in reply to message 44516)

Amen - Logic suggests that a full hall means not enough seats to go 
around and a good informal crowd of people milling around is exactly 
what we should be aiming for.

I remember once, several years ago, at a dance at Hopetoun House an MC 
giving an inappropriately schoolmistressly  lecture to the paying 
clients how they should behave and as I was relatively new to Country 
dancing I gritted my teeth. Nowadays I would ignore the lecture and 
maybe just maybe would be tempted to respond.

In message <xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx 
writes
>In a message dated 03/06/2006 9:45:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>xxxxx.xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx writes:
>
>> >In fact three or four dances
>> >later they resumed the same practice and when they appeared to be made
>> >up in complete sets he requested the floor to be vacated and all
>> >dancers to sit down before he would resume the evening program.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I think this is ruder than the dancers not clearing the
>> floor. One thing which I _really_ dislike is MCs treating the dancers
>> like a group of naughty school children.  I left school a while ago, and
>> I'm out for fun.  It is this sort of thing which gives SCD a bad name
>> and puts people off attending.
>>
>>   I totally, totally agree with Ian here.
>>
>
>Ditto!
>
>Robb Quint
>Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

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Bryan McAlister