[Callers] Balancing LEFT in a wave?

[Erik Erhardt]

In my experience, on Beat 1 a dancer's weight is more likely to land on
their right foot.   This is why balancing left is inherently a challenge
when it flows from other moves.  So I also agree that Forward and Back is a
nice solution.

Erik Erhardt
(505)480-4462  StatAcumen.com/dance

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Amy Wimmer via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> In my experience the momentum of an allemande right automatically takes
> one either to the right or forward. Same goes for an allemande left:
> momentum takes you to the left or forward. A balance left just doesn't flow
> after am AR, because if you have a good connection with your allemande
> you're already pulling to the left a bit. That leaves you nowhere to go,
> left-wise. SO! I agree with the multitudes here: make the balance F&B.
>
> -Amy
>
> On Nov 8, 2017 11:07 AM, "Maia McCormick via Callers" <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Recently called a dance with an allemande R into long waves, balance
>> wave, allemande L. Because of personal preference, I taught the balance as
>> "balance left, then right", but cuz I didn't teach it all that clearly, the
>> dancers defaulted back into balancing right first, and enough tricky stuff
>> was happening in the dance that I didn't wanna correct them in flight.
>>
>> I'm just wondering: do others agree that a balance left makes more sense
>> / flows better in this context, or is this a weird personal preference? In
>> your opinion, does the flow of the balance left outweigh its potential
>> unidiomaticness?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Maia
>>
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