ANST - Anst - Coronation Dance Disscusion - was Event

[Craig Shupee']

Greetings,

Gio wrote:
>My goal as I see it right now is to teach interested gentles what I 
know,
>encourage the interest in dancing as a regular social event, and to 
instill
>basic concepts so that they can best take advantage of the >instruction 
offered
<snip>

This is what I would like to see encouraged.  Instructors not afraid to 
start with basic knowlage and a new group.  I had the advantage of 
taking over a well established group and was able to refine my teaching 
the year before I was in charge.  Not all have this chance.  I must say 
much of teaching is practice, patience, and manners.  (I've often not 
let my class know I was teaching a dance I had never done, what betrayal 
:) ) 

>As for advancing the art of dance, for now I leave that to you, the 
advanced
>instructors. But knowing the current state of dance in the region and 
kingdom
>would help me to teach at a basic level.  I would know to start with a 
dance
>that, while simple, contains the elements that are useful in more 
advanced
>levels.

We create the current state of dance, both new and old instructors.  As 
well, we advance the art.  Most of what I learned has been from 
independent research, not listening from an instructor.  I also beleive 
what is refered to as "advanced" dances comes from our mouths or lack of 
teaching them on a consistant basis.  I begin teaching a new 
reconstruction with  "Come on, its fun.  It'll be easy" even though I 
know its not a simple heart's ease etc.  They end up having fun and 
fealing like better dancers.  If we start out with "this one's hard,"  I 
here groans.

>And, maybe, if I know that Italian dances in 3/4 (for example) are the 
latest
>rage, I can plant the seed of that too, at the level I am currently 
able of
>teaching.

This is a funny point.  I started a new dance guild in Elfsea, alot of 
compleatly new people to dance.  What did we first learn??? 15th century 
Burgundian dance.  I never gave them a chance to get confused with the 
4/4 of ECD's that aren't well documented to period anyway.  Their having 
a good time and are dancing at a fairly "advanced" level compared to the 
Kingdom.

Your servant to command,

Philip White

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