pennsicdance: Planning Dance at Pennsic

[Bess Libby]

On 5 Oct 1999, Philip Lewis wrote:

> >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.


True, and if it's arranged ahead of time with the dancemaster in charge,
then fine.  What bothers me is when I'm trying to teach a dance, and
there's a set to the right a figure ahead, a set to the right half a
figure ahead, and the 3 sets who are listening and trying to do what I'm
teaching are hopelessly confused.

Now granted, people talking and not paying attention while I'm teaching
bother me anyway -- I'mparticularly sensitized to it because I teach in a
middle school, so maybe I'm overrreacting here, but it is a pet peeve of
mine. 

> 
> In certain situations it's ok, like if it's been arranged for that to
> happen, you're seperated by at least two sets, and it's clear who is
> teaching which set.  a dancemaster should be able to minimally handle
> his/her own set and the sets immediately around that set.
> 

Agreed.  Usually when I'm teaching I'm dancing as well.



				-Maria


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