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Campbell Downie
April 24, 1998, 7:07 a.m. (Message 11774)
CHAIN REACTION 32 bar strathspey for 4 couples Bars 1 - 8 All set, 1C/2C and 3C/4C taking hands, 1C/2C, 3C/4C circle left, 2C/4C cross giving right hands 9 - 16 1C/2C, 3C/4C dance ladies chain 17 - 24 2C/3C dance lefthanded ladies chain 25 - 32 1C/3C cross giving right hands, 1C cast to bottom, 2C/3C4C stepping up, all cross to own side giving right hands This dance is copyright © Campbell Downie 1988 You are free to copy it for any purpose connected with Scottish Country dancing on the condition that you include a statement that the dance was devised by Campbell Downie of the Pietermaritzburg Branch of the RCDS in 1998
Campbell Downie wrote: >... the future of >publication of SCD dances lay in the Internet, and probably more >particularly in the Strathspey mailing list. Yes indeed, it seems to be the obvious way of doing things -- except that: We mailers are a pretty small proportion of the dancers world-wide (but perhaps our numbers will grow). There seem to be two opposing views about using the list to publicize new dances. When I sent a set of instructions to the list 3 months ago, reactions fell into three categories: "that sounds like an interesting dance -- we'll try it/have tried it"; "not bad, but it would be better if ..."; "what's this idiot telling us about his insomnia for?" Perhaps in order not to bore those in the last group, it would be a good idea to create another mailing list (shall we call it "rant"?) to promote discussion about new dances and figures, how they could be made more interesting/ more suitable to the Scottish tradition, about the reactions of members of classes/clubs where the dances were tried out, about why the new dance was liked/not liked, about what difficulties cropped up in the teaching. > > Perhaps if more dances are >contributed in the future then we shall get more discussion about Scottish >dancing rather than some of the rather curious sublects that have appeared >recently. Personally, I hope we continue to get both on the same list. Martin, Grenoble, France. ------------------ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france
| When I sent a set of instructions to the list 3 months ago, reactions fell | into three categories: | "that sounds like an interesting dance -- we'll try it/have tried it"; | "not bad, but it would be better if ..."; | "what's this idiot telling us about his insomnia for?" | | Perhaps in order not to bore those in the last group, it would be a good | idea to create another mailing list (shall we call it "rant"?) to promote | discussion about new dances and figures, how they could be made more | interesting/ more suitable to the Scottish tradition, about the reactions | of members of classes/clubs where the dances were tried out, about why the | new dance was liked/not liked, about what difficulties cropped up in the | teaching. Hmmm ... I was under the impression that this was what the strathspey list was for. Was I wrong?
Martin Sheffield wrote: > When I sent a set of instructions to the list 3 months ago, reactions fell > into three categories: > "that sounds like an interesting dance -- we'll try it/have tried it"; > "not bad, but it would be better if ..."; > "what's this idiot telling us about his insomnia for?" > > Perhaps in order not to bore those in the last group, it would be a good > idea to create another mailing list (shall we call it "rant"?) to promote > discussion about new dances and figures ..... > .... > Personally, I hope we continue to get both on the same list. Please let us keep this one *strathspey* list, and the pleasure of e-meeting so many other SCD colleagues world-wide in one single site. Any list will always have topics of lesser interest (and some idle chatter). I just throw away what I don't want. A second mailing list (which I would also join) would cause duplication, make communication more confused and probably increase the total amount of boring stuff. Eric |Eric T. Ferguson, van Dormaalstraat 15, 5624 KH EINDHOVEN, Netherlands| |e-mail: x.xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx. phone:+31-40-2432878; fax:+31-40-2467036|