On Wed, Jun 03, 2015, Andrea Nettleton wrote: > > I'm pretty sure contra is more popular than ECD everywhere, and most > ECD groups call to gents and ladies as well as corners, partners, > neighbors, so I doubt this is the issue. That the music often sounds > classical rather than modern is one issue, that you only flirt with > eyes and fingertips is another. It's more cerebral, less athletic. > It's a different high, which aligns less well with tastes of our age > than contra. You are the first person I have heard say that they > dislike ECD because discreet roles are less necessary.
No, what I said was that I think that *part* of my dislike of ECD comes from the use of positional descriptions. That is, I find it difficult to remember what "first corner" and "second corner" mean, and I think that the difficulty many people have with contra corners means that this is a common problem. I note that I seem to be much better at articulating my difficulties than many people, so I am not at all surprised if you've never heard anyone else complain this way. I also note that I'm a square and folk dancer (I've been doing contra, square, and folk for more than a quarter century), so it's not exactly the case that more cerebral and less athletic are negatives for me. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html