Essays

I've had various essays (or articles if you think “essays” is too pretentious) on my website for some years in my Dance Technique section, but this has grown so much that I've decided to split them off into a separate section.

I'm very pleased that Bruce Hamilton has let me publish a couple of his sets of notes here: “When you're not the caller” and “Giving and receiving feedback”, and Bob Brand has let me publish his series of articles “Pills to purge mediocrity”.  Also Mary Railing's fascinating essay on the Origins of English Country Dance.

Download this entire set of notes as a zip file.

You can then extract the data into a folder of your choice, and point your browser at colin.htm in this folder.  You won't get any graphics, and there's no point in trying to use any of the menu items, because these things aren't available on your hard disk.