Re: [Callers] Zesty Playford

My sense from reading your notes is that Zesty Playford is what I'd think of (as an American who has danced English in the SF Bay Area, Boston, etc) as good English dancing with extra playfulness. Questions: Is "Playford" the Brit usage where you mean what US means by "English" dancing? (Since the linked video is of Jenny Pluck Pears, which fits both categories, I couldn't tell.) My brief experience of "Extreme" / "Trash" English was that it was really specifically an attempt to bring US-urban-contra aesthetic to English dance / music. Music could be played sleazily, etc - but with energy. Lots of twirls/flourishes. (In the video I was seeing some improv - in one set the women did an elbows-linked back-basket, which I'd never seen before - but not so much contra-style flourishes. [Which I think are generally great in contra but must be used sparingly in English lest you lose the satisfaction in fitting the geography to the music.] So I'm arguing that Extreme English seems not quite to be the same thing. I'd like to see all English over here be more Zesty.) -- Alan On 4/27/2013 12:44 PM, Colin Hume wrote: