3 Oct
2013
3 Oct
'13
4:39 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote:
On 9/28/2013 11:46 AM, Erik Hoffman wrote:
Also, if you call only one walkthrough, if you have an odd number of
couples, the bottoms won't have danced at all.
Maybe we should have three walkthroughs.
On 9/28/2013 8:54 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
The argument against starting from the place reached after the
second walk-through is that the couple who were the top #2s or the
bottom #1s will have gotten one walk-through in their current role,
then sat out the second walk-through. if you don't bring everyone
back to their original starting places, then those folks are
starting the dance in a role they haven't gotten to walk through at
all. If the dance is asymmetrical in any way, or if it's early in
the night and new dancers haven't gotten any practice in going
around the end of the dance, this can be really disorienting and
cause instant breakage.
One easy way of shaving time from the walkthrough that I wish more
callers would use: *Don't* have dancers return to their starting
points, just start the dance from the place the walkthrough lands.
That can save up to thirty seconds.
Depends on if you do one walk through or two. With two walk throughs,
no one is out at the top. With one, you're leaving out a top couple --
unless it's a double (or quadruple) progression dance. I no long send
people back to the beginning if I do two walk throughs unless I deem it
a tricky dance, where seeing familiar faces again helps solidify how the
dance goes. I had been starting from progressed-after-walk-through
places for
quite a while, thinking of it as efficient, but got the comment
about the negative effect on those end couples at more than one
dance (both ECD and contra). I've switched to bringing everyone
back to starting positions at least for the first few dances of the
night, and certainly for the tricky dances. Later in the program,
folks are more comfortable with going around the ends and I get more
casual about starting from progressed places.
If people are complaining about not going back to the starting point,
that trumps my opinion...
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