pennsicdance: should helpers teach different variants?

[Julia E Smith]

Dave Lankford wrote:

> One could resort to the argument that "if one doesn't know the variant, one
> should not be helping teach the dance!" - but how often have you gotten
> halfway through a dance before realizing that 'variant collision' is
> happening?

> For complex or obscure variants, I advocate (b) or (c).  I don't view (c) as
> problematic, since I think it healthy for even the occassional dancer to
> realize that there might be more than one 'right' way to do a particular
> dance.

(c) (teaching multiple variations) already happens, in that multiple
people teach on different nights.  However, the real problem is that for
some dances, the repeat structure is different for different variations,
or the music has to go slower, or faster, or whatever.  Then you're
really in for it.

Juliana

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