This is the index page for dance instructions. Please add a link here as appropriate when you have posted a set of instructions. Note that pages in RED still need to be supplied. Others may still need work (it would be nice to have an amber link!??) There are names in grey boxes that MAY (or may not) be dances for which instructions are available. The tag '??rename' is to indicate that the link does not have the prefix 'ins_' which is desirable to allow us to count the dances.
The booklet “ECD Sea to Sea: Dances in the English Country Tradition by Canadian Composers” has been produced “In celebration of Canada's one hundred and fiftieth birthday 2017” is available for purchase. Contact
Lorraine Sutton, 163 Slabtown Road, Clarksburg, Ontario N0H 1J0 1-519-599-6195 lorrainesutton7@gmail.com
Each booklet is $10.00 plus shipping of $2.50 in Canadian Funds. Please make cheques payable to Lorraine Sutton.
The following tags can be put in pages. Eventually I (JN) will try to establish some mechanisms for searching. In the meantime, they will serve to help people find music etc. for dances.
While the template below is useful to show structure, Graham Thompson has created a tool to aid the formatting:
Dances generally are easiest to “line up” with the tags for the parts of the music (e.g., A1, A2, B1, B2, C) if you use a monospace (typewriter-like) font to maintain spacing. This is best done in a text editor (the most common in Windows is Notepad.)
Dokuwiki displays text that is bracketed by the tags <code> and </code> in a monospace font. This is likely the simplest way to present dance instruction blocks.
For formatting to index cards, see dance on card.
One of the easiest ways to submit a new dance is as follows:
This sounds like a lot because the instructions here are rather detailed. Essentially we are copying a dance and then editing it.
The following Perl script will add the spaces. It is executable in Linux and likely Mac command box, and possibly a Windows Command.com box, but may need to be run via
perl towikibox.pl file.txt
#!/usr/bin/perl
# towikibox.pl -- add spaces to beginning of text file to get boxes in Dokuwiki and Mediawiki
use strict;
my $infile = @ARGV[[0]];
print "towikibox on file $infile, result in $infile.box";
open (INFILE, $infile);
my $outfile = "$infile.box";
open (OUTFILE, ">$outfile");
my @all =<INFILE>;
close(INFILE);
foreach my $line (@all) {
chomp $line;
print OUTFILE " $line\";
}
close(OUTFILE);
print "DONE!";
Note the list of English dance videos at http://lambertvillecountrydancers.org/videolist3.html