A Piece of My Mind

I also visited the Southgate group when I was staying in London a couple of years ago and was similarly impressed by the use of modern technology and the friendliness of the group, as well as the careful planning of dances to include something for everyone. The venue was easy to find - I was staying in central London and travelled there by underground, the hall being only a few minutes walk from Southgate tube station. I would recommend anyone visiting London to spend a Monday evening with this brilliant group in Southgate. Long may it continue.

I am looking for a consensus of opinions about what people prefer in terms of programming for a dance evening, be it a special party or a regular session.
More specifically, I was recently at a session that was programmed with "theme sets" - there was a partner set,for example, that contained several tangos in a row. That upset me because tangos are not my forte nor my taste, and it was my one chance to dance with an out-of-town partner, and the set was sort of blown for us because we couldn't dance anything well together. There was another set that was pretty much all Gadi Bitton dances. There was another set that was all older, fast debkas. I was refused a request because it didn't "fit in" with the set. And the end result was,no matter what set we were doing, I found myself longing for the next set.
I personally prefer a real mix of fast and slow, new and old, novelty dances and regular repertoire, different choreographers and styles. I like to be kept guessing what might come next, and I like the variety of knowing that a different type of dance than the one I just danced is coming next.
How do you all feel about it? And is there a difference in this preference from Israel to outside of Israel?

Two months ago Radio Horatenu terminated its broadcast services permanently. After paying a considerable amount of money for a server, and after setting the payment to Acum (also a considerable amount), the Federation of Phonograms and Cassettes showed up and demanded a payment. All my efforts to reach an agreement with the Chairman of the Federation, failed! He was not willing to compromise and requested a payment of hundreds of US dollars or else he would sue me for thousands of dollars. I decided all these expenses were unreasonable and it would be better to terminate the broadcast service. Until that point, I had been ready to provide the service to the dancers and was ready to finance it myself.
I would like to thank all the listeners who have enjoyed our station.
Please accept my apologies.

Posted with permission to publish by Yom Tov Ohayon.

I feel very sad about the disappearance of Radio Horatenu. I had only found the station for about 10 days when it suddenly disappeared from the Philips Streamium system. As at the time it was still available on direct internet reception I started a battle with Philips to try and get it back on air.

I don't know any Hebrew so I can't contact Yom Tov Ochayon on the horatenu site but I can only hope that the station will reappear some day.

Kindest regards,

Paul.

Paulvr20@tele2.nl