29 Sep
2013
29 Sep
'13
2:49 p.m.
On 9/28/2013 11:46 AM, Erik Hoffman wrote:
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.
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.
Kalia
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.
~erik hoffman