pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Gene Schwartzman]

From: Erica Neely <dance at worldnet.att.net>
>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

Actually, that's the exact (more or less) thing I was thinking of today and
I think the solution to this would be as follows:

When announcing the dance, indicate that you have this many flowers and thus
this many people can dance at one time, but if you're interested in being
'picked' during the dance then you need to stand certain distance away (or
maybe have chairs available to indicate those who will be dancing) and if
you're not, then you need to stand further away.  Or something to this
effect where it's very clear who wants to participate in the dance and who
doesn't.

Zhenya.
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