Re: [Callers] Balance the star / left hands joined into swing

Keith Holmes wrote: As a dancer I (believe I) automatically balance waves first towards the person I'm doing something with next. So here I would balance left and then right, and my momentum would be just right for the swing. The awkwardness for me is in the hands; holding left hands with partner and trying to pull in out of the balance into the swing is weird. Still as a (male) dancer, I could try one of these: * not worry about hands, just step together to swing * pull together by the left, let go hands, step forward into a standard swing hold. * do a left hands joined swing (gender neutral or left hands joined over the head). * try some fancy leading (twirl under as Rich/Gale suggest? Or a rory o more turn to join right and then a pull into the swing, or ... ?) None of these are that great. The first is unconnected, the second is likely to uncontrolledly smash you together, the third requires the other person to know the other swing position and put their hands in the right place and the weight is a bit funny at first, and the last requires leading and following which the caller can't count on. So is there some way to make this work nicely? Ideally something that can be simply taught by a caller? Jeff -- Jeff Kaufman http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/