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Anselm Lingnau

Re: Significance of the story behind Catch the Wind" (was Tunes suitable for Catch the The Wind)

July 30, 2008, 12:52 p.m. (Message 53255, in reply to message 53251)

Campbell Tyler wrote:

> Dare I say, why is [Catch The Wind] so "popular"?

Probably approximately for the same reasons that dances like Red House or The 
Flowers of Edinburgh are so »popular« :^)

For a dance to be popular, it isn't required that everybody be moving all the 
time. In fact, with much of the traditional repertoire, 1st couple gets to 
show off and the others are, in varying degrees, window dressing. It's just 
that on the whole, they don't make them like that anymore TODAY.

The other thing about Catch The Wind may be that it is, by design and the 
story behind it, a flirtatious dance. People enjoy flirtatious dances every 
so often, and even if you only get two turns as dancing couple, 64 bars of 
pretty much unsullied flirtation out of a total of 256¹ is more than many 
other dances give you, plus you get to pick beforehand who to flirt with.

Anselm

¹ Before anyone complains, that means »flirtation in movement«. Of course
  you're free to flirt outrageously while mostly standing during the other
  192 as well if you want (as always).
-- 
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