Re: [Callers] Lines of 4/Long lines, and overuse thereof

I was calling for the Bay Area Queer Contra series last night, at their season-opener dance in Oakland, and they are both blessed and challenged by having a huge group of beginners at almost every dance. They're enthusiastic and ready to have a good time, but need a lot of guidance and fairly simple material. I was noticing last night (and I'm a newish caller with a small stock of dances still, but working on fixing that) that a large percentage of the easier dances all feature either long lines forward and back, or lines of 4 down the hall, or both. This makes it a challenge to keep variety in the program. When you're calling for an inexperienced group, do you still try to limit the number of LL F&B and 4-in-line dances, or do you not worry about it so much? There are just enough experienced dancers in this particular community that I was trying to keep the program varied for them, while still trying to keep it really accessible to the new dancers. Had it been a completely brand-new crowd I would have felt fine with a lot more repetition of figures from dance to dance, to increase the comfort and familiarity of the material. But as it was, I was stuck in that middle place, trying to satisfy a wide range of experience levels. The eternal challenge... Kalia _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers