26 Jan
2025
26 Jan
'25
6:10 a.m.
Our dances are generally beginner-heavy. Our priority is to get people
dancing and enjoying moving to the music as quickly as possibly. We often
do Sicilian Circles. Our participants like them fine. We've never seen
anything to make us think that the curvature of the lines causes an issue.
We've sometimes reformed simple contras as Sicilian Circles to make them
even easier to dance since any kind of end effect, even the simplest, can
confuse beginners.
For our purposes, I like this idea of taking a dance with a challenging end
effect and dancing it as a Sicilian Circle. Thanks for the good idea.
Rob
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Robert Matson
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Rick: Can you provide the names of four or five
dances that you feel have
complicated enough end effects that you might want to call them as a
Sicilian circle?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM Rick Mohr via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Many good contras where you leave the minor set
aren’t too hard, but have
challenging end effects. One could eliminate the end effects using a
Sicilian circle. I haven't tried it, but wonder whether disorientation from
the curved set would offset the advantages.
If you’ve actually tried it, how did it go?
Rick
(...ignoring for the moment that Sicilian circles don't fit every hall or
size of group...)
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