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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On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers <contracallers@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@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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