[Callers] Another Existential Inquiry

[Amy Wimmer via Callers]

Yeah, I don't understand the whole "must have a neighbor swing!" thing.
Half the dances in my collection don't have one and they're some of my
favorite dances. I can remember ONE complaint about calling two no-NS
dances back-to-back once. A dancer told me that was a horrible no-no. I try
not to program them in succession now, but I refuse to leave them off my
program. These are often much more interesting dances because there is time
for other, less commonly used, moves. Instead of having one very short
swing to get in the "required moves" (as if this was a dance competition!)
one gets to be relaxed and enjoy the dance.

-Amy

On Jul 26, 2016, at 9:57 PM, Martha Wild via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

What is it with people and every dance having to have a neighbor swing? I
personally dislike dance programs where every dance has a neighbor swing.
Sometimes I’d like to pay attention to the partner I’m dancing with and not
everyone else. Sometimes interesting choreography is available when you
don’t have to squeeze two swings into everything. It adds variety to a
program when there some dances without neighbor swings.

When I first started dancing many years ago, lots of dances didn’t have a
partner swing and only had a neighbor swing. Mother-in-law dances, we
called them. And sometimes, when I had a partner who was really bad at
swinging, I was happy to do them!

So I don’t think your first dance is fatally flawed, or even should be
considered as having a bug - it’s just what it is, a dance with a partner
swing, and as you said, on a hot night in a crowded hall without
air-conditioning, one swing, or even dances where only actives swing, can
suddenly be desirable.

Martha


On Jul 26, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Don Veino via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Given the simplicity of the following, I expect to confirm they already
exist... but thought I'd check in with the knowledgeable horde here on SW.

This is something I apparently "wrote" over a year ago but found again
during a files dive today. :) I expect I may have put it aside due to no
Neighbor swing in the first pass. Spun off w/another A2 to address that
just now, below.

Revisiting them in light of the great heat we've had locally, they might be
sweet lower exertion dances with the right tunes. And lack of a second
swing can be a "feature" vs. "bug" in such conditions.

Please let me know the real author(s), should it not be me. :)

Thanks,
Don

Don Veino DRAFT 20150117 - Becket Left/CW

A1
LT Diag R&L Thru
Ladies Chain Straight Across
A2
Star Left
Star Right
B1
Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P)
B2
Gents Allemande Left 1/2x
Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing

Don Veino DRAFT 20160726 - Becket Left/CW

A1
LT Diag R&L Thru
Ladies Chain Straight Across
A2
Ladies Glance Around* Right 1x
Neighbor Swing
B1
Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P)
B2
Gents Allemande Left 1/2x
Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing

*Glance Around is just a placeholder for that other call, you know the
one...
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