Come Dancing in sequence: a review of sequence dance cds

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Come Dancing in sequence

~ a review of sequence dance CDs ~

Introduction

This site has been created to review sequence dance CDs, to facilitate the Internet search for good sequence dance CDs, and to act as a database for the increasing number of CDs on offer. Good music lies at the heart of all dancing and nowhere is this more so than with sequence dancing. Our pleasure in sequence dancing should not be diminished by music that is uninspiring or out of sequence. Neither should the music have an introduction that is uncertain and/or of other than four bars duration; or have phantom endings where some dancers stop and others continue. The music should not be too fast or too slow or have variable sound levels that make it difficult for the hard of hearing to follow, etc, etc.

As one supplier succinctly comments “…it is difficult to buy CDs if you haven’t heard them first …”. It is a general experience that most purchasers of sequence dance CDs jealously guard them and are often unwilling to share their experience with others. This is understandable but also frustrating to those who are attempting to build up a library of good sequence dance CDs. It is more than a little disappointing to order a batch of CDs, eagerly await their arrival and then find that many of the tracks, and sometimes whole CDs, are unusable. Having said that, no CDs that fall into the latter category will be listed here: we have no desire to denigrate artists or suppliers. We appreciate the skills and difficulties in producing good quality sequence dance music. Our sole hope is that over a period of time this website will aid sequence dancers in the task of choosing CDs and also alert suppliers to the market’s wishes. We trust that visitors to this website will treat it in the nature of a book or general CD review: a personal view interspersed with useful factual data.

There are hundreds of sequence dance CDs currently being marketed so the task of assessing each CD is clearly a monumental task but at least a start has been made here. As more CDs become available to us we are gradually making New Additions to our coverage of the market scene. To a certain extent the rate at which this coverage increases will depend upon the feedback we receive from you and other visitors to this website.

We appreciate that errors or omissions may have occurred in setting up this website pro bono publico. Feedback from site visitors, including suppliers and distributors of dance CDs, is therefore more than welcome.

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Page last revised 21 February 2008

DISCLAIMER: While every effort has been made to ensure that all the information provided in this website is correct, no responsibility is accepted for any errors or omissions that may be present or losses that may ensue to users of the information. The omission of any particular sequence dance CD from this site does not by itself imply that the CD is unsatisfactory: it may simply be that it has not yet been assessed.