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Tom Halpenny

RE: Dances from around the world

Feb. 25, 2018, 8:56 p.m. (Message 69459, in reply to message 69457)

I served on the RSCDS Management Board for three years, and my main
objective was to learn about Society processes. I was unable to gain
insight for how dances are selected for publication. I imagine there
exists some bias toward cultures that are familiar to Society leaders.

I was recently interested to read an article on the RSCDS website
about the Virtual Festival project.
https://www.rscds.org/article/virtual-festival
The organizers are looking for dance performances with themes from
"Around the World". Participants will film a video of their
performance, and the videos will be judged by three judges. This might
signal an improvement from the process that has been used to select
RSCDS dances.

Tom Halpenny
Vancouver WA USA