Summer of 84 has short waves balance and walk forward then balance allemand
and return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzswmrNbuM
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzswmrNbuM>
The Childgrove Country Dances in St Louis have a video archive of all types
of dances
http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/ this could be a great
resource for you.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM Katherine Kitching via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi folks-
As I've mentioned before, our Halifax group is not very advanced - we
welcome a lot of beginners each month, and our regulars are not super
regular or super skilled.. - and so the practice we've settled on is to
choose one "feature figure" each month to focus on teaching....
in the first part of the evening we break down the figure in detail so
everyone gets a chance to learn it inside-out... then do a few dances that
has that figure in it, but nothing else difficult (not even swings! unless
swing is the feature figure for that evening).
Then at the very end of the evening we do an "advanced segment" where we
call a few dances quickly with little teaching (probably more like what all
of your dances look like!) - and those dances include all sorts of figures
that have been featured over the past 6+ months.
(Usually most of the beginners have been tired out and gone home at this
point)
Anyhow, this month our feature figure will be short wavy lines - and I
don't have a lot of experience with them myself.
Could anyone point me towards some videos where short wavy lines are
featured?
I'm interested in being able to watch different fun things that can be
done in SWLs... including the Rory O'Moore sequence, and other simple/basic
actions.
No need to send me videos of more elaborate and unusual types of SWL
figures.
Also no need to worry about the content of the rest of the dance - I
generally write custom dances to incorporate the feature figure while
keeping everything else way simpler than you folks are used to :)
I want to do 3 dances with SWLs - each one with a slightly different type
of SWL figure - I can think of balancing then allemanding haflway around,
repeat...
and the Rory O'Moore sequence as the final more tricky one...
But is there something else I could do in short wavy lines too?
and I would like to see the first two in action so I can make sure to feel
confident in my teaching!!
Many thanks :)
Kat in Hfx
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