pennsicdance: Planning Dance at Pennsic

[Matthew Fleming]

> It adds to the general noise level in the barn and can actually make
> it harder on the person trying to teach the dance.

But if you're teaching in-set, there's no "one person" teaching the
dance.  And the barn acoustics usually make it so that voices can't be
heard very far unless one talks very loudly.

> It's also a good idea not to have different sets doing different
> versions.

Why not?  Most dances don't have too many important variations, and as
long as the set agrees, people shouldn't be running into one another.

> I think that the idea that someone suggested about breaking the room
> up into areas and having several dance masters teach a few sets each
> might work better and be a little less chaotic.

How does this differ from in-set teaching?  The only difference I see
is that the teacher is in the set, as opposed to outside.  And if the
dance instructors want to dance anyway...

Cheers,
Matt
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Matthew D. Fleming                   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fleming
Dancer, gamer, Macintosh and Linux fan.         fleming at cs.cornell.edu

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