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Thread #143707   Message #4054670
Posted By: GUEST
23-May-20 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: English Folk Dancing - Present and Future
Subject: RE: English Folk Dancing - Present and Future

What is the social dance form that needs no partner, is "for as many as will", and can maintain 2 metre separation?

Apart from the separation issue ceildh seems to be going that way. As a Knees Up regular I have noticed an increasing reluctance to ask strangers to dance. Instead people often just walk into a set and stick their hands up.

I think it may partly be down to so called gender free calling which presents folk dance as junior school music and movement rather than as a social event.