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[rm]

Okay, the English Country Dancing is definitely much more my thing than contra. I will definitely go again, albeit not constantly. I think what I really need to do is start going to Scottish on Thursdays (since soon there will be fencing on Fridays). This is all a little mad. I suppose I'm becoming addicted to exercise, eventhough I feel like part of me is going "stop! for the love of all things you need a break!" while half of me is like, "every day, bitch, are you serious about this or not?" Yikes.

I have also determined that I like pop music. That is, big classical symphonies don't do much for me, but give me a dance tune or a waltz on some fiddles and I'm perfectly happy.

I'm still shocked I'm not more sore than I am, but how in the hell am I going to fence tomorrow?

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[placate-me.livejournal.com]

Hi. New friend here. I'm curious about the ECD. Do you do that with the Elegant Arts people? I have been perusing the website for a while now, but haven't gone. Could you shed some light?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I need to add you.

No, I don't do the ECd stuff the Elegant Arts people, but I do dance with them. I actually have some photos way back from a ball I went to with kalichan. ECD is sort of vaguely a descendent of what we do at EAS, although I'm sure an actual dance historian would be able to correct me on that point.

In short, I would say that EAS has the benefits of more dancey dance, as the Regency period is from before elements of ballet were essentially totally eradicated from modern social dancing. ECD, as opposed to contra, has some steps, but there's a lot of just "walking in patterns." On the toher hand, ECD events have weekly live music (which is awesome), EAS, being classes, uses a CD for learning, but our balls (this year a Regency one and a centennial one set in 1907) have live music. Does this help at all?