Week 12

I will most likely be doing a narrative with headings. It just makes the most sense. I'm really telling a story about what happened to me so narrative is a given. I think headings might give it more organization. Hopefully it will keep me from bouncing from one topic to another throughout the paper.

final concerns

RESEARCH! I keep looking up sites, articles and books and not finding much if anything I think I would use. They tend to sound good in overview but once I start reading its all about studying dance not people or a culture.

How much rambling is a good thing. This paper is mainly my observations/opinions.

Box 30

The struggle to find relevant material continues. I checked several of the sites in the Ball State Archives and found nothing I could use. There were pictures of statues dancing, paintings of dancing, a few articles mentioning music, and a lot of things that I couldn't see how it related to dancing, ballroom, or swing (the search terms I used for this search)

week 10 ref

The first 4 words everyone got correct. They are pretty self-explanatory . The leader leads the follower follows likewise with Fred and Ginger. Serpentine confused them all. If you see the dance step it is easy to see the where the name comes from but having not seen it they just have to guess. Progressive was the only other one that seemed to confuse everyone. They assumed it referred to improvement in dancing, or a quicker pace. The remaining few words were hit and miss.

week 10

Leader

Follower

Fred

Ginger

Serpentine

Progressive

Stationary

Barbie arms

Promenade

box 25

Almost all of the vocabulary specialized for my culture is used in giving directions to the couples.

Leader: The male member of the dance couple, also called the Fred.

Follower: The female member of the dance couple, also known as the Ginger.

Barbie arms: the rigid frame needed to keep the dancers in the correct position.

Serpentine step: A diagonal step used in the Foxtrot

Progressive: Any dance in which to couple moves (progresses) around the dance floor.

Stationary: Any dance in which the couple stays mainly in one place.

Promenade: A step in which the couple faces the same direction instead of facing each other.

Box 18

The Pillars are our enemies. As we practice the dances we move around the room quite a bit. Since we are new at this it is not always that easy to remember how to steer around objects and people. People eventually will move. The pillars will not. There are 3 of them on each side of the dance floor and they are always getting in the way. Even on dances that are not progressive(moving across the floor) we often find ourselves having to stop and reposition ourselves on the floor to avoid colliding with one of these menaces.