XPost: rec.folk-dancing, rec.arts.dance   
   From: slorenz@libero.it   
      
   Hi Mario,   
   yes, that is clear for everybody and I'm agree with you.   
   Anyway let me thank you, once more, for the incredible work you do - free -   
   for us.   
   For me it's so important to share information, knowledge and passion on   
   folkdancing, even if all that comes from a superbeginner folkgroup! ;-)   
   And let me thanks my friend Angel (grazie Angel, hai fatto un ottimo   
   lavoro!) he does a great work!!!   
   Silvio Lorenzato (Italy)   
      
      
      
   "Mario Herger"  ha scritto nel messaggio   
   news:ersj0m$cbk$1@news.sap-ag.de...   
   >> This is not to disparage the great contribution and enormous work that   
   >> has   
   >> been done to collect these videos, but I do want to give you this   
   >> warning:   
   >> these videos should only be construed as representative of that   
   >> particular   
   >> folk dance group on that particular night.  In no way have the videos   
   >> been   
   >> vetted for "authenticity" (whatever that may mean; maybe it means   
   >> "conformance to the prevailing version").   
   >>   
   >> All I know is that I looked at the eight dances that I thought I knew and   
   >> they varied from my recollection (and syllabi).   
   >>   
   >> There is no great replacement for learning a dance from a master teacher.   
   >> Use them as a tool -- one data point -- when trying to reconstruct a   
   >> dance.   
   >> Dan Pearl   
   >   
   > That's clear and everybody understands that. And don't forget: what you   
   > learn, is also a variant. For some dances there are dozens of variations,   
   > even within a small region, not to mention world wide.   
   > Nobody stated that those videos display the only allowed way to dance it.   
   > It's a snapshot. For some of those dances you find multiple variants on my   
   > website. And that's the beauty.   
   > And better, then having to understand a written dance instruction...   
   >   
   > Mario   
   >   
      
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