It's not so much an interest thing. It's rather that there's a feeling that Cotswold is claimed - that we'd be treading on the toes (as it were!) of the Men if we started dancing "their" style of dances. A women's side was set up some years after the original men's side, but chose to do north-west instead. When a mixed side was set up a few years, it was with the stated aim of dancing any English tradition we could lay our hands on... except for those that another island side already danced.
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Date: 2005-09-26 06:37 am (UTC)What sort of dancing do you do, then?