Kiran Wagle's contra dance page
Bob Stein
Kiran has updated his most extensive and wonderful contra dance page.
Check out the URL:
http://www.io.com/~entropy/contradance/dance-home.html
Happy hunting!
-Bob S
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Kiran Wagle
> Kiran has updated his most extensive and wonderful contra dance page.
Thanks. I meant to post a notice in a day or so pointing out that if I
haven't included any updates, y'all should bug me about them again. I've
updated the list of local Web pages, and changed a few entries in the list
of local dances, and now I have to poke through old mail to try to find
the new local listings.
> "Sit back, have a drink, enjoy the show.
> It's the end of Western Civilization..."
And I'm sure the World Wide Web will contribute to this as well. <g>
~ Kiran
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Kiran Wagle
(Hi Roger. LTNS.)
> Since you are doing entries on local dances, would you consider <g> an
> addition on English Contry Dances sponsored by the FSGW? I know several
> contra dancers who have gotten interested in English Country and first
> learned about this form at a contra dance.
I'm not listing English dances for two reasons. One is that the page is
enough work as it is, and the other is that I feel there's not enough
crossover from contra to English dance to justify the inclusions. If I
listed an English dance, I'd be obliged to list all of them, and the page
would probably grow by half. Furthermore, I don't seek EC dances out, and
it's hard enough getting contra dance information for places I don't know
about. (Today's "Calvin and Hobbes" for 08/24/95 is also enlightening.)
I don't have enough time to do the fun stuff anyway. I have several new
dances to include, for example "The Left Hand," the winner of the Bad
Contra Contest a few years ago, I want to put up "Dance Gypsy pages"
sorting dances by area and day of the week (and vice versa) to enable
itinerants to easily plan tours, I want to make lists of tunes and the CD
they're on, and I want to work on scripting a database to produce the flat
files--I do this by hand right now. I also want to collect more dances
(for my own use) and design a database page for those.
Based on the numbers of contra and English dancers in this area, I suspect
the extra work could not be justified to me, and I'm the one doing the
work. Local pages can and do include ECD information, if their
maintainers feel there's enough crossover between the two forms to justify
it. (In some cases, I suspect it's because the page maintaners sponsor
the dances. I'd like to see more "area" pages instead of organization
pages, but that's another issue.)
And my not including the information leaves the construction of an English
dance page to someone who loves that form as much as I love contra
dancing, and who would put that much energy into it and make it a resource
useful to _English_ dancers and not just dancers. At least one person
claimed to be working on an ECD page, but I haven't heard anything
definite, so YOU could do it ya know. <grin>
As Bill Tomczak says, "the great strength of the Web is how well
distributed it can be. If each of us just takes up as much as we can
handle, and does it well, it can become a reliable reference tool the
likes of which the world has never seen before."
~ Kiran "Consider it considered <g>" <gr...@netcom.com>
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SidHetzler
versa) to enable itinerants to easily plan tours,>>
Kiran, this would be great not only for dancers but traveling callers and
musicians.
Sid
Sid Hetzler
Ben Bolker
include english country dancing on your web page. here's another idea:
if someone constructed an analogous ECD page, would you include a
link from your page?
in my local dance community there *is* quite a bit of crossover between
english and contra - on the part of musicians and callers as well as
dancers. obviously others' mileage does vary.
- susie lorand
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Dennis Troup
Roger W. Broseus <rog...@cais2.cais.com> wrote:
>Kiran:
>
>Since you are doing entries on local dances, would you consider <g> an
>addition on English Contry Dances sponsored by the FSGW? I know several
>contra dancers who have gotten interested in English Country and first
>learned about it this form, said by many to be the fore-runner of contra,
>at a contra dance.
Roger,
You can find the FSGW English Country Dances listed at:
http://www.smart.net/~mjb/bfms/events/washingtondcenglish.html
as a part of the Baltimore Folk Music Society's web pages. Kiran already has
a link to these pages.
Dennis
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Wendy Morrison
Broseus) wrote:
> Kiran Wagle (gr...@netcom.com) wrote:
> : Bob Stein <squ...@omni.voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> : > Kiran has updated his most extensive and wonderful contra dance page.
>
[snip-a-roony]
Hey y'all. I'd very much like to check out this page, but I missed the
original post. Could someone kindly email me the URL? TIA.
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Kiran Wagle
> if someone constructed an analogous ECD page,
> would you include a link from your page?
Of course. Would you like to write such a page? <grin>
It's a fair amount of work; my pages took about a week to put together,
and realistically take an hour or so a day to maintain, if one is actually
adding stuff rather than putting it off. But it means you can call dance
weekends "research." And an ECD page is certainly needed, as much as
anything on the net can be said to be needed.
I'll followup the rest of your post later. :-)
~ Kiran