To the uninitiated, Picasso is a piece of junk. To the initiated, to the student, to the life-long aficionado it is everything. Ah, Picasso and contra dancing, one and the same. These kinds of quotes keep Dart's book moving along in an entertaining fashion. Her reliance on these thirty sources does result in some minor misconceptions.
Western callers are in fact up to date because of faxes, the Internet, and traveling.
And many of them have been composing dances for the past fifteen years, so the stereotype of movement of dances from East to West is, in fact, not true. Dart also notes the lack of female composers. Again, if she had gone West, she would have met Sandy Bradley, who almost single-handedly has spread the gospel of square and contra dancing since the early 1970's throughout the West and even into the East coast. Thus it is not unusual to find female callers in the West who have modeled and been influenced by her. And these callers are writing dances.