strathspey@strathspey.org:11816

James R. Ferguson

Re: Chain Reaction/New Dances

April 27, 1998, 12:58 a.m. (Message 11816)

M Sheffield wrote:
> 
> Campbell Downie wrote:
> 
> >... the future of
> >publication of SCD dances lay in the Internet, and probably more
> >particularly in the Strathspey mailing list.
> 
> Yes indeed, it seems to be the obvious way of doing things -- except that:
> 
> We mailers are a pretty small proportion of the dancers world-wide (but
> perhaps our numbers will grow).
> 
> There seem to be two opposing views about using the list to publicize new
> dances.
> 
> When I sent a set of instructions to the list 3 months ago, reactions fell
> into three categories:
> "that sounds like an interesting dance -- we'll try it/have tried it";
> "not bad, but it would be better if ...";
> "what's this idiot telling us about his insomnia for?"
> 
> Perhaps in order not to bore those in the last group, it would be a good
> idea to create another mailing list (shall we call it "rant"?) to promote
> discussion about  new dances and figures, how they could be made more
> interesting/ more suitable to the Scottish tradition, about the reactions
> of members of classes/clubs where the dances were tried out, about why the
> new dance was liked/not liked, about what difficulties cropped up in the
> teaching.
> 
> >
> >   Perhaps if more dances are
> >contributed in the future then we shall get more discussion about Scottish
> >dancing rather than some of the rather curious sublects that have appeared
> >recently.
> 
> Personally, I hope we continue to get both on the same list.
> 
> Martin,
>   Grenoble, France.
> ------------------      http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france
> 
> --
> M Sheffield <xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx>
I think it's great when people post their new dances on the list.  I
enjoy reading through them, taking them to our dance teacher and class,
etc.  Donna Ferguson