27 Mar
2011
27 Mar
'11
3:03 p.m.
Paul Wilde wrote:
My first suggestion would be to eliminate or highly restrict moves
like a full hey in these situations. What I would like is for
people to make suggestions of fun, flowing dances that are compact,
especially in their width.
Each move has an aproximate space it takes up. Heys need more width,
everyone swinging their partner in the center needs more length, down
the hall needs extra room (3 yards?) below. So if someone wanted to
take the time to note how much room each figure took, then someone who
had dances in a fully computer-readable format could tell us how much
room the dance needed. Perhaps this would be a good caller's
companion feature?
Separately, figures that I think of as especially big:
long per dances:
- everyone doing something rotational (swing, dosido, aleman, ...)
with the person across from them
- pass through to an ocean wave
- gender A aleman in the center while gender B orbits half way
long, constant regardless of dancers:
- down the hall, up the hall
- sashay down and back
wide:
- maybe heys?
I see the restrictions as mostly in length, but it may also be that
in the places I'm used to dancing it's more common to have sets
squished along their length than width.
Jeff