23 May
2024
23 May
'24
4:13 p.m.
The hands meet with very little impact, about as clapping your own hands
together.
It's definitely possible to contact someone's hand hard enough to hurt them
with this style, and sometimes overenthusiastic dancers do this, but I
think that's pretty rare.
The important part is the timing satisfaction of the hands coming together
exactly with the music, on beats #7 and #8, not the making noise.
Jeff
On Thu, May 23, 2024, 3:11 PM John Sweeney via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
OUCH!!!
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England
*From:* Jeff Kaufman via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
A kind of "clapping" I like a lot on Rory O'Mores is when you balance
right and left, slide right, and then on beats "7" and "8" you
percussively
(but without so much force that you hurt anyone!) connect hands in the new
wave with first your left hand and then your right. And the left/right
reverse when sliding back. It's a nice bit of connection, though it does
require good timing.
(This is different from clapping your own hands together on beats "7-and"
and "8", petronella-style)
Jeff
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