I would say my collection tends to involve more Gents in the center, often coming out of a
swing, going into an allemande L 1-1/2, to swing on the other side, but that’s just an
empirical feeling because I notice having to pull dances from a program if too many have
that transition.
Thanx, Ric Goldman
Portland, OR
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Subject: [Callers] Dance Variety
As I programed my dance evenings for this weekend, I noticed that close to 80% of my dance
cards have just the Ladies in the center doing something, About 10% have the Gents going
in, and the remaining 10% or so have both the Lady and the Gent, or neither the Lady or
the Gent going in.
My observations consider a Hey and Half hey as neutral, and as such I did not include the
hey in my estimations. However if the hey was set up by an allemande or chain, those
basics were considered.
Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?
Rich Sbardella
Stafford, CT