pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Erica Neely]

At 03:03 AM 9/17/02 -0400, Annikki Weston wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Gene Schwartzman wrote:

>> OK.. Ballo del Fiore is a nice dance.. I like the music, I like to dance
it,
>
>> dancer...  I'm not saying get rid of it.. on the contrary, I strongly
>> recommend we keep it, but we should also teach it in classes and use it
as a
>
>It was taught at least once by me, and Judith probably taught it in her
>ball-prep classes.  Part of the problem may have been that we only had the
>seven (just got up and counted 'em!) flowers that I brought.  That limits
>the dance to seven couples at a time.

The other problem with Ballo del Fiore is that it can sometimes be hard to
tell who else actually wants to dance.  We start with a circle of
interested ladies, but we always end up with a lot of people watching who,
if you ask them to dance, shake their heads frantically.  After this
happens a couple of times, it's easy to fall back on asking people that you
know want to dance it.  

I guess we need a secret symbol for the people who want to be asked to
dance...<grin>

Catalana