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Category: Instructions
Instructions.
Traditional Dance Deportment
I have finished reading Elizabeth Casciani’s Oh, How We Danced: The History of Ballroom Dancing in Scotland and must take it back to the library today. First, however, I would […]
Planning dance parties like a (Christian) Stoic
When I was very young, I enjoyed a lot of drama. It added spice, i.e. dopamine, to life before we all got hooked on the internet. Books provided Laurie’s unrequited […]
Learning to teach Lindy
My usual advice to would-be hosts and hostesses is not to teach your guests how to dance yourself. “Delegate” is my watchword. “Delegate, delegate, delegate.” Ideally you do nothing on […]
Strip the Willow for Soldiers
There are dances traditionally for women, dances traditionally for men, and dances traditionally danced by both sexes together. Then there is Scottish Highland dancing. “Friday night was always dancing night,” […]
A Music Lesson
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. This great truth was brought home to me while discussing the tempo of waltz music for the Second Annual […]
Learning to Teach the Waltz
There is an old adage about mastering a skill in medicine: see one, do one, teach one. This is perhaps not wonderfully comforting for patients, and the best dancers in […]
The Drama of Hamilton House
There is Scottish Country Dancing, and then there is ceilidh dancing. Scottish Country Dancing, which derived from 17th century English country dances and older Highland dances, is beautiful and complicated. […]
Planning a Dance Party
The purpose of this website is to encourage traditional social dancing among Catholics, in the firm belief that this activity helps build the City of God. Done correctly, dancing encourages […]
How to ask for a dance
Gentlemen tell me that asking a lady for a dance is difficult at first but easier with practice. At Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party, we are old school, so waltz lessons […]