pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Greg Lindahl]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:21:48PM -0400, Gene Schwartzman wrote:

> And so.. I now ask publically, what I asked privately and never received...

Zhenya,

Why do you insist that *I* tell you what's in the Pile? I don't
organize the Pile (I was stuck with it this year at the last minute),
and as I explained to you in private email, I don't currently have a
copy. I suggested that you post here for someone else to answer your
question. I'm glad you finally did it.

> What concerns me, is not the dances themselves, but the dance distribution
> that tends to focus heavily on one form or another at the beginning

It actually rotates evenly; you lumped 15th century Italian with 16th
century Italian. As you've probably noticed, 15th century Italian has
been taught for many years at Pennsic, and has a pretty large
following. 16th century Italian is relatively new and is known to
fewer dancers. And I don't count the dances during the break; they're
intentionally more obscure dances.

-- Gregory Blount