[Callers] Good dances for beginners to safely leave/return to minor set.

[Joy Greenwolfe via Callers]

I’ve had god success in teaching out of minor set moves by orienting the dancers before they move to the new neighbor. If they will simply visit another neighbor, I’ll point out that they are visiting, and then coming back. Or I will have them look ahead to their next neighbor and have them wave at each other. Then I’ll them them, “tell your first neighbor, 'I’ll be right back’” and wait until they do.  That helps them get the storyline in their head, and think two steps ahead rather than one. 

Joy Greenwolfe


> On Oct 11, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Don Veino via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> My opinion is "current Neighbor", from a dancer's standpoint, is equivalent to simply saying "Neighbor" (but with possible added confusion). Current is contextual in conventional experience, so many people would interpret it as the closest Neighbor.
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> I've started trying to find remembered/distinguishing features to describe the targeted individual in my call. For example, in my dance I posted above, I call "...look AWAY, NEXT Neighbors Star Left, find your ALLEMANDE Neighbor, Swing..." for the first few times through and then fall back to simpler language once they've got it.
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> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Chet Gray via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with using "original neighbor" vs "current neighbor" in these outside-minor-set-interaction dances? My thinking is to prefer "current neighbor" for dances with previous neighbor interaction, and "original neighbor" for dances with future neighbor interaction, but I don't have enough evidence for any strong decision in the matter.
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