Dance Name Decorations
You find a music file on your computer, after the name it says (P). What does that mean exactly?
First things first, you should always seperate your personal edits on dance names using a dividing dash - or inside parenthesis ().
Please, do not use underscores. The underscore character is commonly used to replace blank spaces in a filename, but are not good data separators.
Decorations using a dash
Some commonly used decorations are placed after a dash. These provide additional context about the specific version of the recording.
Examples:
| Decoration | Indicates |
|---|---|
| - New | New musical arrangement |
| - Short | Short version |
| - Long | The longer/full version of a song |
| - Instrumental | Musical version without singing |
| - Playback | Playback version (no vocals/karaoke) |
Decorations using paranthesis
Parenthesis marks are often used to distinguish one name from another similar name, or to add additional context.
Examples:
| Name | Indicates |
|---|---|
| Dance (C) | The circle version of this music |
| Dance (P) | The partner version of this music |
| Dance (L) | The partner version of this music |
| Dance (New) | The new version of the music for the same dance |
| Dance (Good) | The "good" recording |
| Dance (2x) | The music version that plays two times |
Another time to use parenthesis is when you have ambiguous titles that are otherwise identical. There are at least three choreographers with a dance that has the same, identical name. "At". How do you tell them apart?
| Name before decoration | Name after decoration |
|---|---|
| At | At (Avi Levy) |
| At | At (Gadi) |
| At | At (YBS) |
| At - Short | At - Short (YBS) |
Decorations using a dash in Hebrew
With a Right-to-Left formatted language, like Hebrew, the single dash is a preferred divider. The data on both sides of the dash are formatted correctly and the dash is both a placeholder and divider.
Examples:
| Decoration | Transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| קצר - | katzsar | short version |
| ק - | kuf | short version |
| מלא - | ma-le | full version |
Super short dance names
Some dance session leaders have shortened their song titles to a single letter for common sub-types, like Debkas and Horas.
"Debka Dikla" becomes "D. Dikla" and "Hora Ben" becomes "H. Ben". These names are a recognized alternative spelling, but are not recommended.