strathspey@strathspey.org:47408

Thomas G. Mungall, III

Re: Pilling diagrams

Dec. 7, 2006, 5:50 p.m. (Message 47408, in reply to message 47404)

John, personally, I also prefer working dances out in my head. I like to
think of dances as simply progressions of different figures and I prefer
that they are taught that way also.

Often my wife and I travel to New Orleans for Scottish Country dance class
and we arrive early so we can dine occasionally at a local restaurant with
friends from class. I found myself one evening trying to explain the
"Ninesome Reel" to someone who had never done the dance. I used sweetener
packets to illustrate the dance. Pink packets for the ladies and blue
packets for the gents. (I was tempted to use a yellow packet for the
Bumpkin!)
BTW it worked well!

Tom Mungall
Baton Rouge, La, USA