Amazing what you can do with tractors, huh? Maybe I'll do a piece with
shopping carts.... or scooters...



I've considered a letterbox where you'd start in one spot, then figure out
where you'd end up after a certain square dance call -- as your next step,
and so on...

But it's way too arcane, isn't it?



I have another Cabinet of Curiosities box ready & waiting, but I need to
take it to its hosting store --- and then that takes a sales pitch to the
potential host, plus a lot of explanation about letterboxing. Maybe I'll
just send them to Bay Area Back Roads & let lisascenic tell it all in
convenient video form.



BTW, folks, I've just formed my new dance group for my nonstandard square
dance pieces. It's called the Not-So-Square Dance Ensemble, and after over 8
weeks of phone calls, the City of SF gave me the free use of a dance studio
in exchange for performing our pieces for the City in the future. We just
started work on a piece called, "Volcanic" - it uses fast Cape Breton-style
folk violin music played by Natalie MacMaster. It's a very energetic piece,
but doesn't stray too radically far from what you'd consider square dance -
except we're changing the standardized styling of almost all the calls, and
adding a brief Scottish folk jig in the middle.



This is a big challenge for square dancers - they're not used to moving
without a caller.



Paul in SF



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