pennsicdance: info for Seicento Caroso ball

[Courtney Meredith]

Yes, I think it is strange also.  The lottery mechanism *will* crock the
atmosphere, and when I've seen tokens used, I found them unobtrusive and
partially effective.

1) I am trying to figure out to what extent people like and want to pursue
'recreation of social context' (understanding that our best effort will
necessarily be a 'good parts version', because our sessions have 0 to
minimal undercurrents of social, financial, and political rivalry), versus
concentrating on the dances (acknowleging that 'one couple or set at a time'
is arguably as much a part of the style for some of these dances as steps
sized in terms of fingers).  All of the following are good answers:

	recreation
	dance-centric
	I don't know
	I'd be happy with either, they've both got good and bad points
	I'd like to figure out how to do both at once

2) Tokens help people keep track of who has already chosen, but if you've
got your heart set on doing a dance that only a few people know, and they've
all got tokens already, the tokens get ignored.  I think that knowlege of
16th-c Italian dances is still spotty enough that this will be a
worse-than-usual problem in this session.  The lottery proposal is an
attempt to make things better for the participants who chronically don't get
asked to dance.  On the other hand, I expect the session will draw a
relatively small number of participants, and the tokens do make it easier to
pass the choice onto someone else if you've already had a turn.  I may be
trying to overcompensate.

I need input, people, please talk to me!

Mara

Meredith Courtney
Comverse


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lindahl [mailto:lindahl at pbm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:05 PM
To: 'pennsicdance at pbm.com'
Subject: Re: pennsicdance: info for Seicento Caroso ball


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:49:58AM -0400, Courtney Meredith wrote:

> I propose to use an alternative to my usual format for this session:

It seems strange to me that the "real" Caroso is going to use
less-Caroso-like rules than the Caroso-style ball.

I suppose that the lottery is trying to get more variation in partner
choice. One commonly-used alternative is to give visible tokens to the
people who've picked; does the latter do less violence to the
atmosphere?

-- Gregory
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