[Callers] How to Describe a Ricochet Hey

[Dale Wilson via Callers]

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Dale Wilson <dale.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:

> And since I'm on the subject.  I spending a lot of time thinking about how
> to teach dance moves during a workshop and during a walk-thru (they are
> different.)
>
> A couple guidelines:
>
> 1: Make it concrete.   "Gents look at each other."  That's concrete. Look
> at the place your neighbor is standing -- that's concrete (ish) Imagine a
> slice of pizza.  Nope.
> 2) Avoid analogies like the plague (you are thinking of a swarm of
> locusts, but I meant a rat-borne bacterial infection)   Ricochet hey is
> just like a slice of pizza as long as the pizza is six feet in diameter and
> sliced in fourths rather than sixths or eights.
> 3) Try to serve up the teaching in bite-sized chunks (ooh--an analogy).
> Teach half a hey, not a full hey, first, then put two of them together once
> they've made it through the simpler version.
> 4) If you've got an unusual mental model of a particular move that really
> helps you get the feel for it --- FORGET IT!   I once watched a caller try
> to teach a swing by explaining that it's playing air-guitar while riding a
> skateboard [I am not making this up!]  Needless to say the new dancers were
> confused.
> 5) Don't teach advanced techniques to new dancers.  Forget the buzz step.
> Forget the twirls. Teach the simplest moves that get the dancer from point
> A to point B facing the correct direction.   Other dancers will take care
> of adding the refinements (give's them a chance to show off (er... I mean
> be helpful))
>
> Dale
> ​
>



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