<p dir="ltr">Let me rephrase:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is there a precedent for naming a dance after a living politician?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 28, 2016 10:29 AM, "Don Veino" <<a href="mailto:sharedweight_net@veino.com">sharedweight_net@veino.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jefferson and Liberty.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ron Blechner via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I have another question to pose:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is there precedent for naming a dance after a politician? </p>
<p dir="ltr">While I may have voted for Bernie, I'm careful to not inject my political view into my calling / choreography. (Though, on the other hand, if Bernie doesn't win the nomination, in 5 years dancers will just hear "feel the burn".)</p>
<p dir="ltr">In Dance,<br>
Ron Blechner</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 27, 2016 8:24 AM, "Pat Hoekje via Callers" <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>I am trying to visualize the circle R to star R with new neighbor from the women's place and I have to turn around (or drop from the circle right a bit early to star right with the next neighbor. What am I not seeing correctly or is that true? </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Pat</span></div> <div><br><br></div><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 4:22 AM, Amy Wimmer via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div>Tom and Erik are quite right about that swing. It lasts FOREVER, which<br clear="none">is a little too long. I took Michael's suggestion and started at A2.<br clear="none">I also took Michael's suggestion of turning the allemande into a<br clear="none">two-eyed turn (an "eye-lemande" as my friend Matthew coined). Thank<br clear="none">you for the suggestions for changing that bit.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Two callers danced it tonight. One (my husband, Tom) thought the flow<br clear="none">was good, but the swing was definitely too long. The other caller said<br clear="none">she really liked that the mad robin wasn't with your partner, which<br clear="none">she said tends to make a dance seem very partner-only-centric,<br clear="none">ignoring the neighbors. She agreed with me that I need to figure out a<br clear="none">better way to teach it. One of the band members noticed the long swing<br clear="none">and said it needs some other element to break it up.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This particular dance community has lots of beginners and folks who<br clear="none">just don't dance very well. It took them a while to get the circle<br clear="none">right-to star right transition. Tom thought that part was simple. He<br clear="none">noticed that when one is out at the ends one should not cross over,<br clear="none">but should stand "proper."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I very much appreciate your input, guys. Next time I'll try some more<br clear="none">of your ideas.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Amy<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none">> On Mar 26, 2016, at 5:50 PM, Tom Hinds <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:twhinds@earthlink.net" target="_blank">twhinds@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Nice dance Amy. I really like the sequence of moves.<br clear="none">> I'm trying to imagine this in my head and assume that the allemande right is once around which takes less than 8 beats to do.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Hope you don't mind suggesting a change. I would change the allemande right to once and a half. That would give us:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> B2 neighbor allemande right 1 1/2<br clear="none">> ladies ric. men pass left<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> T<br clear="none">><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Callers mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">Callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net" target="_blank">http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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