Thanks for all the terrific suggestions of dances and ideas for the Valentine's dance. This list is a great resource!
So I thought I'd follow up with what actually transpired. Here's the program I wound up with: Bob's Valentine - Chris Ricciotti Gypsy 'Round Two - Tom Hinds + Young at Heart - Steve Zakon-Anderson + Pam's Clock-wise Valentine (2.5) - Seth Tepfer + Love & Twirls - James Hutson + Spring Dance Romance - Dean Snipes Love Sting - Rick Mohr + Heart of Glass - Cary Ravitz Lover's Leap - Peter Stix + Two Hearts in Reel Time - Lisa Greenleaf + Always My Love - Dean Snipes + I had several extra/alternative dances in reserve as well. The program was a bit overly-ambitious for the crowd we got, but it was fun and we made it through. There were more "new to me" (marked with the + above) dances than I like to present in an evening, mostly because I was determined to stick with the theme. In retrospect that wasn't the best idea. Given the dances I chose, I'm not so sure I presented them in the best order. Again - this was in part due to the high number of "new" dances. I've been using Will Loving's excellent CCDB for a few weeks and the "Program Matrix" and "Phrase Matrix" features of it really helped, however. A few of the new ones will definitely be "keepers" for me. Others, maybe not so much. The toughest ones for the crowd were Spring Dance Romance and Lover's Leap. Finding who's across from you after the diagonal moves proved to be troublesome. I'll need to work on that. /Andy Shore http://andyshore.com/ andysh...@gmail.com
