15 Nov
2012
15 Nov
'12
12:04 a.m.
I call in the Cambridge area where clapping for a Petronella is
ubiquitous. When I called Kitchen Stomp recently though, I mentioned
the possibility of not clapping because I love the feeling of going
smoothly into that left hand star. I specifically told them that
usually I encourage clapping and talked about how nice it felt and
actually got most of them to clap for the first petronella and not for
the second. I think I may have kept prompting the star and if I'm
remembering correctly, that helped them remember not to clap.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Maia McCormick <maia.mcc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A la "The Cure for the Claps"?
http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/2007-September/001024.html
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Jack Mitchell <jamitch3(a)mindspring.com>wrote;wrote:
Rather than saying "Don't clap" I
have found that it can work well to put
the emphasis on what they can do to make the dance work well...Balance the
ring and twirl straight into your partner's arms for a swing. Or in this
case, balance and twirl to the right, letting the twirl send your left hand
into the center for a star....or something like that.
On 11/14/2012 3:18 PM, Kalia Kliban wrote:
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http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers I called this the other night and noticed that as
the clap crept in
during the course of the dance the star got later and later, and more
ragged. In some dances the clap is fine. In this dance it definitely gets
in the way. That clap can be hard to quash, though. Next time I call
this, I'll make the point during the teaching and see if it sticks.
Clapping isn't an absolute given here (SF Bay Area) but it tends to spread
if anyone does it even once.
Kalia
On 11/14/2012 11:19 AM, Bob Isaacs wrote:
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Local tastes may vary, but if you're calling
at a series where
Petronella clapping is automatic, you can mention not clapping on the
Petro/star transition (first seen in Becky Hill's Kitchen Stomp, I
believe), but I wouldn't push that too hard. If one of the four claps, the
other three have to wait for the clapper. It's different on
Petro/allemande or Petro/swing transitions, where only two dancers need to
agree on valuing flow over flourishes -
Bob
From: contraron(a)gmail.com
>
> I have a Petro-spin-to-star in a dance of mine, a move I stole from
> another
> dance (Middle School Drama, or something like that?). People are going
> to
> clap, so I recommend mentioning in the walkthrough that the dance is
> smoother if the hands go right in sans-clap.
>
> -Ron
>
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