19 Feb
2014
19 Feb
'14
8:41 a.m.
I like Erik's 2 rules:
Rule 1: Hooks, not grips
Rule 2: Connect Smoothly -- no jerking, please
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Lindsay Morris
CEO, TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay(a)tsmworks.com
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Read Weaver <rweaver(a)igc.org> wrote:
I suppose it's something I sometimes do--I think
of it as punctuating the
phrasing (it's something I'd only do if I can do it right on the beat). I
think I particularly like it when I've been consistently finding people who
are either ahead of or behind the phrasing, and then find someone who's
right on it. Not being able to clap with someone (e.g., dancers at the end
of the line & the move is forward-and-back), which I think is comparable in
force, would come as a surprise to me, warranting a "Gentle, please"
sticker on the person for whom it's a problem (though I realize all you
have to do to avoid that clap is not put up your hand, which you can't
really do on an allemande).
--Read Weaver
Jamaica Plain, MA
http://lcfd.org
On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:12 AM, George Mercer wrote:
I guess this is tangential to the hands/allemande
discussion, but it has
been a source of personal pain for me for some time. Over the past
decade
or so more and more people, many of them pretty
good long-time dancers
(both men and women), have approached me for an allemande with a
percussive
force akin to a punch or slap. Wham! I have a
variety of hand/arm
issues
and the percussive impact of the initial
allemande contact sends a jolt
all
the way up to the shoulder. I have been forced
to hold my hand/arm back
until the last second (when the force has dissipated) or even set it up
so
the other dancer whiffs past my hand altogether.
When did whacking
someone's hand for an allemande become acceptable or appropriate? This
may
not be a problem for others, but for me it has
the same result as the
death
grip, bent wrist, thumb wrench, and other
allemande problems -- pain.
Thanks.
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