The Care and Feeding of Exhibition Sets
This article from American Squares outlines items to be taken into consideration when developing an exhibition square dance team:
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Putting the “dance” in square dancing is the basic objective of good exhibition dancing. A set must enjoy their dancing while they are on the floor and show that they are enjoying it. This feeling will transmit itself to the audience, and the audience will then enjoy watching this set more than any amount of synthetic fanciness in the form of whirls, spins, leaps, twirls, or high precision drilling through complicated fig ures.
Our objective is not a drill team but a set that can really square dance as a unit. The ultimate goal is a set that can dance to a caller without knowing beforehand what he is going to call but still perform the figures with perfect timing and exact execution. This is a difficult but not impossible goal.
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Tags: demonstration, Demonstration Group, exhibition, Roy McCutchan, Zibby McCutchan
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This article from American Squares outlines items to be taken into consideration when developing an exhibition square dance team:
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Putting the “dance” in square dancing is the basic objective of good exhibition dancing. A set must enjoy their dancing while they are on the floor and show that they are enjoying it. This feeling will transmit itself to the audience, and the audience will then enjoy watching this set more than any amount of synthetic fanciness in the form of whirls, spins, leaps, twirls, or high precision drilling through complicated fig ures.
Our objective is not a drill team but a set that can really square dance as a unit. The ultimate goal is a set that can dance to a caller without knowing beforehand what he is going to call but still perform the figures with perfect timing and exact execution. This is a difficult but not impossible goal.
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