From Louise Siddons:
Also, specifically in terms of programming (which someone mentioned), there are
aspects of calling where experience is a key element of the learning process.
Shortcuts will be detrimental to the caller’s experience even if the dancers
don’t notice.
From me:
This is much like late Larry Jennings’ decision to transcribe dances in his
book, Zesty Contras and Give-and-Take with abbreviations and in a form that was
not common in the time. His thinking was people using his books would have to
think about the dance they were planning to call had to think about the dance
as they re-transcribed it. I recall the challenge of putting dances down on a
card (remember those?) (and I know people still use cards…) from Zesty Contras
and doing just what Larry intended: thinking a dance through as I put it down
in my re-abbreviated cards.
Cheers,
~Erik Hoffman
Oakland CA
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AI is resource-intensive and an environmental disaster. Using it for trivial
purposes feels worse than pointless to me. Also, specifically in terms of
programming (which someone mentioned), there are
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AI is resource-intensive and an environmental disaster. Using it for trivial
purposes feels worse than pointless to me.
Also, specifically in terms of programming (which someone mentioned), there are
aspects of calling where experience is a key element of the learning process.
Shortcuts will be detrimental to the caller’s experience even if the dancers
don’t notice.
In the spirit of slow food, might we not consider ‘slow folk dance’ as taking a
positive, sustainable position in relation to the climate crisis? There is no
actual need to make anything related to contra dancing more efficient.
(I’m reminded of the joke that dancing is a very complicated way of going
nowhere. Surely in some sense we embody the idea that the journey is the
destination?)
Louise.
(Winchester, UK)
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