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Nominations for quotes of the quarter -- 2004 (October, November, December)
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| | From: | Richard Maurer | | Subject: | Nominations for quotes of the quarter -- 2004 (October, November, December) | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:54:34 GMT |
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 | Nominations for quotes of the quarter -- 2004 (October, November, December)
[Michael Young] ( re Contra, a few points from a long piece)
I teach a lot of beginners workshops.
I frame most of what I teach in terms of connections. When I teach
anything else, I apologize for it.
Here's what I teach:
- It's easy dancing and I won't teach you to dance and the caller
won't teeach you to dance. Community connection is learning from
other dacners.
- Switching partners and learning from the other dancers.
[...]
-Making a good frame while circling/ 2hand turn.
[...]
-Swinging. The heart of a "Beginners workshop."
[...]
OTHER MOVES:
With enough time and enough beginners, then yeah, I'll start teaching
moves.
Any move I teach, I want to have them do 4 times or more. Better to
skip some moves than not do this.
[Bill Martin] (re teaching beginners)
Progression, the difference twixt active and inactive, and courtesy
turn are the things that trip up beginners. And balance and swing is
so much fun to do that you could include that in the instruction.
[Michel Landry]
> Is it true the "traditional" choreography was fabricated for a grammar
> school curriculum in the 1960s; the actual practice before then was to do
> "follow the leader" movements?
In Québec dances, most of the time traditional quadrilles have 5 parts and
each part have a different name. Le Quadrille de Loretteville have 6 parts:
1- La chaîne du reel, 2- Les quatre coins, 3- La balance, 4- La promenade,
5- La galope, 6- La bastringue.
"La bastringue" is one part of a quadrille. In 1979, Richard Turcotte from
Québec City did a Long playing 33 record, including La bastingue and did an
adaptation, fitting the music, of the traditional 6th part of "Le quadrille
de Loretteville" for children of 10 years old.
When Yves Moreau from Montréal started to teach bulgarian dances all over
the world, he had a good idea to include La bastringue of Richard Turcotte
in his repertoire to show a little of the repertoire of his own country.
That is why everybody now, know La bastringue, thank to Yves.
Is is not the original dance, but very close, and certainly NOT a "follow
the leader" movements.
[Noemi Ybarra]
I received an email message yesterday that said the wonderful,
long-running first-Sunday Lovett Hall contra dance will cease to be
after the February dance!
Lovett Hall was built FOR contra dance, by Henry Ford. I understand
that the catering department has taken over control of the hall, and is
making oodle of money off receptions, anniversaries, and other rentals.
[Karen M]
(Glen) [...] They've restructured and Catering, not the
Education Department, runs things at Lovett Hall. I've been talking
to them, all the way up to the COO of The Henry Ford this week and
it's a done deal. Thanks for the kind thoughts.
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Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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