strathspey@strathspey.org:11831

Ron.Mackey

Re: Dancing to pipes - or not!

April 28, 1998, 2:38 a.m. (Message 11831, in reply to message 11810)

> different interpretations of landing on the 
> beat in highland and country dancing? (To execute 4 hops in highland
> the body must stop moving down early enough to allow for the second
> hop.)
> 
> (Or perhaps in a pas de basque one is really hopping twice in a bar
> whilst in highland one is hopping 4 times?)
> 
> And then what happens in jigtime? Does the up movement take a different 
> length of time from the down movement? (In a p.d.b.)
> 
> Maybe it needs a physicist to sort things out.
> 
> Malcolm  
> 
> PS Helen thinks analysis of this sort will not help her dancing, or mine!

 Hi Malcolm, :)  :)  :)    -------
 Helen, don't be a spoilsport.  Just get him to give us an 
illustrated - or do I mean - demonstrated lecture in the party room!
Cheers,  Ron   :)

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