strathspey@strathspey.org:1319

Priscilla M. Burrage

Encores

March 16, 1995, 5:33 p.m. (Message 1319)

On Thu, 16 Mar 1995, Ian Brockbank, DEC Livingston  wrote:

> To start a completely different thread, what do people think about encores?  My 
> personal opinion is that it's better to have a programme with more dances, and 
> dance more different ones, than to dance everything twice.  If you run out of 
> dances, there are always extras.  The university groups in Scotland seem to be 
> coming to expect encores more and more, probably since they've got used to them. 
> And they always encore the same boring ones that we've done a dozen times this 
> year (half a dozen dances, encored - I exaggerate, but you get my drift).  Why 
> can't they encore the nice ones with a bit of novelty value?

They have twenty dances on the program and they encore??   

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