Re: [Callers] backwards becket (was end effects)

For dancers, Becket means line up with your partner on the side of the set. They do not care if it is clockwise or counterclockwise--the walk through should send them in the correct direction. A few Becket dances are ambiguous to dancers as to where to go when the progression occurs. For such dances the caller should, at the start of the walk-through, have dancers note who their next neighbors will be. The designation of a Becket dance as CW or CCW is only useful to someone trying to visualize a dnaceby reading the dance's transcription. Using terms such as indecent is not helpful (because the fewer terms we have, the better). Best to to describe such dances as "2's rather than 1's crossed" One of my dances has the "1's crossed, but starting below the 2's," which is how my transcription of it reads. Dancers are asked to have the 1's cross, and then exchange places with their neighbor. . Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217-239-5844 Links to photos of many of my drawings and paintings are at www.ArtComesFuerst.com ________________________________ From: tavi merrill <melodiouswoodchuck(a)gmail.com> To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] backwards becket (was end effects) A quick thought on "backwards becket", which is the starting formation of one of my dances as well - i tend to think of it as "becket indecent" since that regularizes the term with other formation terms, implying lady on the gent's left. The basic list of course - proper, improper, indecent, improper-progressed, becket, becket-right (or CCW)... and then our friendly distant outlier, the backwards becket.