Talk:Ten Stupid Things Beginners Do to Mess Up Their Contradance Experience

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-- Blain

A brief explanation of what contradance actually is would be nice! --82.44.102.209 09:51, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It would for the online form, but not for a printed form, and this is mostly designed to be useful in a printed form that can be given to beginners at a dance. Fortunately, there's a very nice article at Wikipedia on contradance that I can link to on the online form (the only thing that's kinda weird is they insist on calling it "contredance", and being weird seems to be part of the point).

BTW, it's kinda nice if you create an account so I know who I'm talking to here. And, anyhow, thanks for participating in the wiki. It's already an improved product because of the contributions of everybody.
Blain

[edit] Thanks

I enjoyed this, thank you! It is linked on the http://www.BACDS.org links webpage.

I don't know that beginners leaving at the break is so bad though. They can get tuckered out, and the dances can get confusing. Even sitting out every other dance might be borderline advisable, but it is hard to get out on the dance floor again. It is a tough choice.

There is also the admonition usually given to beginners to avoid getting dizzy by looking at something on their partner, eyes, forehead, shoulder, etc. Don't know if you might want to include that.

Also as an ex-sound guy, I'd recommend that beginners who were attracted to the dance because their friend is in the band, have the grace not to complain to the sound guy that they can't hear their friend in the mix. Or at least check that the sound guy is not armed first. We are kind of highly strung when working.

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