21 Jul
2013
21 Jul
'13
6:12 p.m.
Also, my congrats and wishes for a successful dance!
The dancers in Denmark also decided, a few decades ago, to call their
contra/square dances with English terminology. The teaching is done in
Danish, but the calls in English. And the explanation for this that I
was given was so that dancers could dance anywhere in the world. And
it seems to have worked, since lots of Danes come to the U.S. to
attend dance camps.
This also might avoid a part of the challenge of having non-Spanish,
non-English speakers in the crowd.
Please keep us posted on how your dance progresses!
warmly, Linda
On Jul 21, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013, Mark Stowe wrote:
I am dating a Mexican anthropology professor that I met at a
contradance at an Earth Skills festival in Gainesville FL and she is
now a complete convert. This past New Year's we got 20 of her family
and friends contradancing. They caught on quickly, really liked it
and would like me to start a regular contradance in Xalapa=Jalapa
where it actually has a better than average chance of working given
the large arts/ music community, and the numerous international
students and expats.
Congrats!
Any leads to possibly existing materials/ written
explanations or
calls in Spanish would be appreciated. And given my travels to
other
countries (especially French speaking) I wonder is there any
non-English material and/or calls? Thanks!
No advice directly related, but the square dance community has decreed
that all calls are given in English (much the same way that pretty
much
all programming languages have their keywords in English). Kinda
rude in
some ways, but it does mean that people can travel to other
countries and
still square dance.
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