dance programs

Mcgarrity

July 4, 1995, 11:41 p.m. (Message 2103)

On the subject of devising dance programs and keeping track
of figures to avoid repetition and clumping:
A local teacher, Carolyn Hunt, has a system for keeping track of figures when
devising a program which I thought I'd pass along.  She
has cut up a Pilling book, and has a (tiny) alphabetical file of individual
dance diagrams -- when a dance goes onto the program, she takes out
the diagram for that dance, and (with removable tape) sticks it onto a
piece of paper.  It's easy to scan, and watch for repeating figures, and
easy to move a dance from one spot to another without having to repeat
any figure-tracking you've already done.
I've seen people do this with dance *names* on post-it notes, and use
some sort of diagram to track the figures, but this does it all at once, and
is self-adjusting as the program evolves.
Cheers.
Kim McGarrity
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Palo Alto, CA