Re: [Callers] First time contra dancers

As far as telling the newbies to find experienced partners vs telling the experienced dancers to find newbies - I still stand by my original premise that we put the responsibility on the experienced dancers. If I have to weigh the very subtle message "these dancers have to be told to dance with me" against the overt message "you're on your own here new dancer and its up to you to figure out who is an experienced dancer and who isn't, and even though you've already stretched your comfort zone by making an effort to do something new in a room full of strangers, I'm going to make you stretch it even more by telling you to walk up to these strangers and ask them to dance with you."