On Mon, 11/7/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: All dancers really need is a strong down beat...Never really had a dancer say, "I can't dance this dance to that tune".
Hello Alec I think the point here is not what can be danced to such and such a tune but which style of tune best suits a certain dance. People in the area I'm talking talking about would usually attend at least two dances per week and these would often start at 10 at night and go on until 6 the next morning. This had two effects; 1) it made the dancers refine their style until it looked and felt wonderful but was economic with no wasted energy and 2) it made them acutely tuned in to which tunes really helped them dance all through the night. The example you gave a link to was typical of the 'earthy' English style that is so very different from the Northumbrian rant style I have in mind. When I said that rant steps could be done to jigs I should have added that they become more akin to pas be bas than rant. Cheers Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
