11 Nov
2017
11 Nov
'17
11:15 p.m.
On 2017-11-11 12:09 PM, Peter Simonyi via Callers wrote:
I was in a dance with a similar sequence just last
weekend.
Please bear in mind I'm piecing together memories from the middle of a
dance weekend. The caller was either Mary Wesley or David Eisenstadter
and I can't recall enough context to decide who it was. The part of
the dance I remember went like this:
ladies 4 steps in, balance wave R, L
gents in as ladies out, balance wave L, R
two gents allemande L half way, swing neighbour
Hi Peter! I'm pretty sure that was "Trip to Peterborough" by Rick Mohr:
http://rickmohr.net/Contra/Dances.asp#TripToPeterborough
(I think it was Mary calling, but I'm not sure.)
Note that Rick doesn't specify which way to balance, so people are likely to
default to R,L. And in both of the videos on that page, the men indeed
balance R,L.
I thought that balancing left felt fine. It
didn't seem to be too
unidiomatic, and it did make the allemande left better. Some parts of
the line were a little shakier on the left-first method but overall it
worked quite well.
I agree. (Though for me, it took a bit more attention than R,L would have.)
-Michael