strathspey@strathspey.org:8427

kerstin kuhn

RE: Mairi's Wedding

Aug. 2, 1997, 9:25 p.m. (Message 8427, in reply to message 8323)

>>>        I have been reading the Maire's Wedding discussion with interest -
and some exasperation.  It seems to me that opinions are becoming
needlessly polarised on this thing.  <<<

Thank you very much, Monica - I was really starting to wonder whether
SCD is the right form of dancing for me!
Well, not really after 18 years; but I have noticed before that quite
a few Scottish Balls tend to be - let´s say, not
overly exuberant. Probably because everyone seems to be afraid that
someone is going to stop the music if you
twirl (I have known this to happen, though not to me!). 

And when I hear now that you´re not supposed to stand out it reminds
me strongly of dreary East German
Communism - everything was the same grey over there.

I firmly believe that there is room for both - for standarizing, so
dance groups do not completely drift apart, and
for variations, for twirls, for fun and exuberance - at the right
place, in the right set. And it annoys and hurts me
when people try to tell me it´s wrong to find the JOY OF DANCING in
exuberance; that you´re supposed to
have fun _exclusively_ in covering and phrasing and in "being good".

So, enjoy yourselves dancing - and let others do the same!

Kerstin Kuhn, Proitzer Muehle, Germany