Re: [Callers] Head of the Bed - Revisted

Hey Everyone! There are few dances I am in love as I am in love with this dance. I remember the first time I danced this, and remember exactly how Nils told the story on how it was written. That the dance had come to him a dream... What a great story... Anyway, I would completely agree with the introduction of the shadow right at the beginning of the dance. The "bow to your partner next to you, bow to your neighbor across from you, and bow to your shadow next to you on the other side. It is a lot easier making this introduction, when everyone is sure of where they are suppose to be, in this case in Becket formation. Sometime when you call this sequence it helps to have a leading call to the shadows swing. I always use something like this: "half a hey, now turn away and shadows swing. I like the "turn away", because you are turning away from your partner, to your shadow, it makes a really easy reference point, instead says gents look up or ladies look down or look right or look left. Thanks, Jeff Petrovitch