29 Feb
2012
29 Feb
'12
11:01 p.m.
Hi David,
Yes it's not fair, females get all the fun :-)
Here's a dance for you (maybe it already exists)
Let's Be Fair
A1: N Bal & Sw
A2: Gents Left Allemand 1 1/2; P Sw (ladies must wait 8 beats doing nothing)
B1: Ladies chain over and back
(so now the gents have to wait 4+4, but optionally may twirl or jig
on the spot)
B2: Bal the ring, Petronella roll; Bal the ring, California Twirl
note: during the first 12 beats of B2 dancers can discuss whether 4+4 = 8
Cheers, Bill
On 1/03/2012 4:31 p.m., David Harding wrote:
I agree that the important point is balancing gender
activity. It may be
regional differences, but as a male dancer, I often feel that there is
significantly more activity for the females - dos-si-dos-ing, 1 1/2, allenamding
1 1/2, etc - than for the males. Every ladies chain, which other posts have
documented as far more frequent than gentlemen chains, adds to the imbalance,
not just with the ladies moving through the whole figure and the men through
only half, but through the twirls during the courtesy turn.
Of course, it could just be my biased perception based on a limited sample. My
wife tells of looking around in her med school lab group and seeing three times
as many women as men. The guys in the group looked around and saw a perfectly
balance group. And, with a mix or three and two they were all right.
David Harding