6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
8:33 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM, James Saxe <jim.saxe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yoyo, I'm curious why you think a dance being in
Becket formation
would make the end effects less confusing (either for dances with
out-on-minor-set interactions in general or for "Vote with Your Feet"
in particular) than in a duple improper dance of otherwise similar
complexity.
Perhaps it's not the becketness per se that makes it more forgiving to
couples out at the ends, but how much time they have to figure out
what to do next.
There's a detail I observed when teaching Steve Zakon-Anderson's 3-33
to a small crowd of beginners. Dancers progress in B2 and then
immediately in A1 a couple is out at the top. I saw some people
flummoxed by the choices available,
(a) turn to face their partner and balance and pull by as neighbor #1,
(b) trade places to wait improper (at the top) and wait for neighbor #2.
Neither of these is hard, but not knowing what to do can throw in that
instant can throw off even seasoned dancers.
By contrast, in Vote with Your Feet, the dancers progress in the A
section, so the couple out at the top has all of the B section to wait
improper for neighbors to come at them. Even if they end with a swing
in B2, there is only one way to end that swing.
Nonetheless, I agree that this belongs in the more challenging end of
the range of things you can do to leave the minor set.
Yoyo Zhou