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Thread #104605 Message #2147067
Posted By: Richard Bridge
12-Sep-07 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: EFDSS: 'Folk free zone'
Subject: RE: EFDSS: 'Folk free zone'
The American dance referred to appears to be performance in its own right, not in furtherance of the objects 1 and 2 of the memorandum, and so outside those cited objects. Or maybe there is a Bell Houses v City Wall clause somewhere (eg "to do anything else that the directors in their discretion see fit")?
Certainly I see no use in promoting American dance, there's too much of the damned stuff everywhere at festivals, and like Japanese Knotweed it seems to grow everywhere and be hard to eradicate. And there are too many banjos.
I also don't like Morris sides using Irish and American music to dance English dance to.