Essays
Various essays (or articles if you think “essays” is too pretentious) on different aspects of dance, mainly by me.
I'm very pleased that
Bruce Hamilton has let me publish two 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.