Chris Stratton
06-26-2004, 12:03 PM
How do people like to have contrasting styles of music at dance socials arranged?
Interleaved - standard, latin, standard, latin, with the occasional alternate dance (hustle or WCS or salsa in our case) throw in? (usually also with a fast/slow alteration so you don't pair a jive and a quickstep)
Sets - 4 or 5 dances in one style, then swtich, then switch back?
Mega-sets - an hour or more of one style, then switch to a different style?
Personally I first encountered per-song interleaving, and tend to rather dislike any other system. Given I sit out most of the latin and social numbers, on average I'm trying to dance very other song, which is a very comfortable pace. Wheras with 10-15 minute sets, it seems like I can't really get the full benefit of all of my favorite music due to it being clustered with no break or time to find partners, but then end up sitting out a long time waiting for the latin set to end.
I do suppose though that someone who liked all styles equally and also preffered an every-other-dance pace could find per-song interleaving annoying in that they'd tend to get stuck aligned with one style and have to dance or sit out two in a row to switch. Occasionally when I will dance one of the latin numbers I notice this, but it doesn't seem too bad. (two on two off is preferable to four on four off in my mind)
Interleaved - standard, latin, standard, latin, with the occasional alternate dance (hustle or WCS or salsa in our case) throw in? (usually also with a fast/slow alteration so you don't pair a jive and a quickstep)
Sets - 4 or 5 dances in one style, then swtich, then switch back?
Mega-sets - an hour or more of one style, then switch to a different style?
Personally I first encountered per-song interleaving, and tend to rather dislike any other system. Given I sit out most of the latin and social numbers, on average I'm trying to dance very other song, which is a very comfortable pace. Wheras with 10-15 minute sets, it seems like I can't really get the full benefit of all of my favorite music due to it being clustered with no break or time to find partners, but then end up sitting out a long time waiting for the latin set to end.
I do suppose though that someone who liked all styles equally and also preffered an every-other-dance pace could find per-song interleaving annoying in that they'd tend to get stuck aligned with one style and have to dance or sit out two in a row to switch. Occasionally when I will dance one of the latin numbers I notice this, but it doesn't seem too bad. (two on two off is preferable to four on four off in my mind)