Re: [tg] Material difficulty level

[John Hawley <john e hawley gmail com>]

For what it's worth, I was also frustrated and not really having fun
the last 2 weeks. My priorities are different from David's (mostly I'm
annoyed at myself over the things I'm not doing well, I don't
necessarily come to tape group to "have fun"), and certainly Julie's
seems better for continued growth than the Seagulls we started with.
But this may be another data point to consider.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM David Resnick via tg
<tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>
> I find the Julie material too hard, and I'm not interested in the Friday 
> the 13th material.  Seems like that is what tg is interested in doing 
> for much of the night currently.  Which is fair enough.  I'll be doing 
> other things for a bit as I didn't enjoy the last two weeks.
>
> -David
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Resnick via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 11:12 AM
> To: Andy Latto <andy latto pobox com>; Alex Dehnert <adehnert mit edu>
> Cc: Tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Subject: Re: [tg] Material difficulty level
>
> My preference is also to start easier for maybe 2 tips, then do some 
> harder material in the middle and maybe end with an easier/dancier tip 
> (or Winchester?).
>
> -David
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alex Dehnert via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:53 AM
> To: Andy Latto <andy latto pobox com>
> Cc: Tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Subject: Re: [tg] Material difficulty level
>
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Andy Latto via tg wrote:
> > I really enjoyed dancing  Julie's dance, which I found very hard, and
> > the Friday 13th, which I found ridiculously hard, last night. But my
> > preference would be to balance this with a couple tips of slightly
> > easier stuff, at a level where we could expect to get, say, more than
> > half the sequences without stopping the tape.
>
> I think I pretty much agree with this.
>
> I'm not a great judge of the difficulties of different venues, but if we
> want more material, both https://krubow.com/Recordings/Recordings.html 
> and
> https://challengedance.org/recordings/c4.html seem to have a variety of 
> C4
> material, including from sometime in the last decade. My impression is
> that Keith's site isn't getting new recordings, but the recordings on
> there can still be acquired. Coop's site looks to be heavily Julie's and
> Berkshires, but there's a bunch of other stuff too.
>
> It also looks like, from the late teens, I have various of C-Gulls,
> Extravaganza, Importers, and Jane dances, that I got from Lotta.
>
> ~~Alex
>
> >
> > Do other people feel the same way?
> > And if so, do we have some easier C4 available?
> >
> > Andy
> >
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