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<DIV>In a message dated 9/2/2004 7:29:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, annikki@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ece9d8" face=Arial><There used to be complaints of "There's too many advanced classes, it's too elitist!" going around, which led to our focus on beginner's classes. Now we're at fewer ones, and we still have beginners showing up, even when the class descriptions specifically say "Advanced" or "Experienced." I suspect that if this is listed as a class, we'd still have the problem of less apt dancers showing up and getting frustrated at the level and rate of things being taught.></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><snip> to an excellent proposal</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ece9d8" face=Arial><So here's the idea. Most of the people with a big interest in doing harder dances are <BR>probably going to be able to pick them up at a speed more like that of the walk-throughs <BR>done during evening dance or refreshers at dance practice. More than anything, we need <BR>time to practice these dances so they are more likely to remain in our brains. That doesn't <BR>take a lot of time overall -- certainly there's time in those evening empty slots mentioned <BR>above. Could we not have an advanced dancing _practice_ time set up for the tent? This is similar to what several of us were hoping to do Wednesday after the scheduled classes, to practice neat stuff for Elayna's party. However, the Flamenco dance popped in. We went to Del's camp to practice, but, as mentioned before, campsites aren't ideal.><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I love this idea for more dancing, I miss hanging out with the people I used to dance with. However, I am not thrilled with making it more elitist by having secret meetings or excluding people (some beginners have quite a knack and will have a blast at these practices). I think anything that is in a public space (the dance tent) needs to be open to everyone. We can make it plain in the booklet and at each practice that these dances will be reviewed quickly if necessary but many will be danced without a review. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Just my $0.02.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">YIS</FONT></DIV>
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