Everyone I can think of who is pushing for the examples I gave in the post was a dancer before they started having that belief. Contra dance is far too niche for it to be worth anyone’s while to try to come in from outside as a non-dancer and change it to be more the way they want.
I wrote “If you had a vote you’d probably be in the minority”. To take this specific example, we publicly planned a vote, saw that this was overwhelmingly preferred, and decided to switch. But if we had had the vote five years earlier I think we probably would have had different results.
Everyone I can think of who is pushing for the examples I gave in the post was a dancer before they started having that belief. Contra dance is far too niche for it to be worth anyone’s while to try to come in from outside as a non-dancer and change it to be more the way they want.
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