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[marion wright]

passage east on nov 18th is going to have dancing !!!! it is spartenburg 
SC.. that is south no if's and or butt about it

It has two yes two acadimie memebr tag teaming the dancing and running 
practices leading up to the event

please come and dnace with us we would like to see you there....

a big dance event , is half in the planing .. pasage est' autocrate hunted 
up dance teacher and has helped with getting practices going!!!

and part with the people who show up hint hint come dance!!

Marion

>I debated whether to respond to this right now since the state of dance in
>Windmasters' Hill isn't what the academie is about, but I think that I
>actually have practical things to say in the response.
>
>As someone who tried to teach dance here, my picture isn't quite as rosy as
>yours.  While it is true that we have multiple potential dance instructors,
>it is NOT true that we have weekly dance practices.  There were no regular
>weekly dance practices last year and there aren't any this year.  We do 
>have
>intermittent practices and we do have interest, but translating interest
>into actual attendance at practices has been very difficult.  Now we are,
>once again, trying but it remains to be seen whether this go round will be
>more successful than the last go round.  Wish us luck!  :)
>
>But I think the case of Windmaster's Hill can be used as an example of how
>the Academie can help.  We do not need help with training instructors per
>se.  What we do NEED help with is making Dance a bigger focus. Last year,
>the major dance events [the Coronation Ball, Masqued Ball in Caer Maer, the
>all-Italian event...]were all in Northern Atlantia. Most of them were a 
>hike
>from Central Atlantia much less from truly Southern Atlantia.  To get dance
>really purring along in the South, IMHO, we need a big dance event down 
>HERE
>so that people can see several things:  how much fun and how amazing an
>all-dance event can be AND see dance as an activity which can be a focus
>rather than an afterthought, which is what it appears to be when it's
>pick-up dancing that the autocrat hasn't bothered to arrange a
>dancemaster/mistress for, much less space.
>
>*smiling*  Of course, Twelfth Night is an opportunity to do just that.
>But what would be really helpful, IMHO, would be an ANNUAL event down here
>where dance is the focus.  Of course, I don't know if we have a
>chicken-and-the-egg problem where there's not enough interest down here
>because dance isn't a focuse for most people but we because dance isn't a
>focus down here, an annual primary dance event wouldn't work.
>
>My .2 dirhams,
>
>Sayidda Tahira bint Ibrahim al-Ixbilyi
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