pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:44:48AM -0400, Gene Schwartzman wrote:

> But to those people who just show up to the ball during Pennsic.. Italian is
> Italian...

And the Ball is trying to be all things to all people, so it involves
compromises.

To quote Judith, in an earlier email to this list:

> At the meeting, I asked if anyone thought anything should be changed
> about the Ball play list this year, and it seemed to be the
> consensus that the list we have currently suits the needs of the
> constituencies of the Ball. I really think that making any
> major changes to the ball list would probably be a BAD
> idea. Adding a couple of dances might be good, but I had many
> people approach me after the meeting to say that they really liked
> the Ball list as it was. We can use the evening revels held in
> the dance tent to show case/ perform more variety, more intricate
> dances, it was pointed out to me, and I would have to agree.

And for the rest of your missive:

> >And I don't count the dances during the break; they're
> >intentionally more obscure dances.
> 
> Why?  Why intentionally exclude dancers that might want to dance? Why
> intentionally be exclusive?  Why not do something that everyone can
> participate in?

Huh? I'm not excluding anyone. My only point about the dances in the
break is that they're during the _break_, so few people dance them,
and it's extremely appropriate to put more obscure dances during the
break. We used to all just stand around during the breaks.

Zhenya, you aren't going to manage much _constructive_ criticism if
you spend so much time hurling emotion-laded terms like "intentionally
exclude".

-- Gregory Blount