[Callers] Dance Variety

[Chris Page via Callers]

If you start from the common man-on-the-left, woman-on-the-right, and
circle left 3/4, the women have swapped sides.

Easiest fix is to have the women swap sides again somewhere else.

-Chris Page
San Diego, CA



On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Don Veino via Callers
<callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Rich Sbardella via Callers
> <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>> Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?
>
>
> I've had a similar observation (not in my deck necessarily but also from the
> dance programs I encounter on the floor) - in many cases the Ladies are the
> ones getting the run around/doing the most "single role" action. I haven't
> done the percentages, but to me it seems the Gents' same role action is
> typically limited to allemandes.
>
> This is something I've been using to inform my own dance compositions,
> creating either more even or Gents-heavy dances (featuring other moves)
> which could balance things out in aggregate.
>
> -Don
>