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Subject: Opens

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Ali

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Date Posted: 17:11:17 05/22/03 Thu
In reply to: Tim 's message, "Re: Standing Committee" on 16:47:49 05/22/03 Thu

Hmm, this is a very contentious issue which has been discussed at length at numerous meetings over the last few years. Tim gave a good outline of the many counter-examples to having hard and fast rules; for these reasons I am utterly opposed to a 'if x then must dance in y' rule as they simply won't work for the university circuit. It changes far too quickly in so many ways.

At present we have guidelines to suggest where people should dance. We absolutely must not have *rules* to enforce such *guidelines*. You cannot break a guideline, so you therefore cannot break a rule that is based on said guideline.

Couples dancing 'too low' cannot have any punishment stronger than being forced to dance up, because *they haven't done anything wrong*.

Can we force people to dance up? No. They may not have prepared or learnt the extra dance and they almost certainly won't have practised it as much. Also, since the dress regs are different for int and adv, putting couples up to adv will cause problems because they may not have suitable cotume - and therefore will either be at a disadvantage, either real or percieved.

I agree that it would be nice to have some way of stopping people from dancing 'too low', but I don't believe there is a practical way of doing it. If Shell has something innovative up her sleeve, then I look forward to considering it with an open mind, but if it is a rehash of the many proposals tabled in the past then I'm afraid I'm utterly opposed to it.

Ali

P.S.
Actually, some couples were dancing out of standard at IVDC2003. They were too high - I saw several couples dancing advanced who would quite obviously not have got anywhere near even the intermediate final. I don't really see this as a problem - it's their funeral.

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Re: Opens	Vickie	19:08:28 05/22/03 Thu