26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
4:55 a.m.
When calles at our dances do this, I lobby hard to not have them invited back. The message
I get is "only I can be helpful to newcomers; you experienced dancers, don't even
try." If you've got experienced dancers who are doing things that confuse
newcomers, you (or someone) need to teach the newcomers how to be helpful. Preventing them
from doing so is not a way to build a local dance.
--Read Weaver
Jamaica Plain, MA
http://lcfd.org
On Nov 25, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Michael Barraclough wrote:
I called a dance (4 More Years, its on my website)
with that figure on
Friday night at Glen Echo. I deliberately didn't call the figure by
that name since as soon as you mention the name of the figure, everyone
who knows what it is starts. Instead, I described who was doing what
and then said that it was like a shuttle or sliding doors. Later on in
my calling I shortened the prompt to sideways. As far as I could judge,
pretty much everyone got the move (there were about 50 newcomers and 200
more regular dancers).
At the end of the evening I was taken to task for not calling it by its
proper name so that "everyone would know what it was"!
Michael Barraclough
www.michaelbarraclough.com
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 18:12 -0800, Greg McKenzie wrote:
>> So...can we get rid of that "Angry Robin" figure now?