8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
8:12 p.m.
I've noticed that dancers' natural tendency is to balance towards the hand
that touches first in these situations, which is consistent with what you
report. Should the rest of the dance be truly worthwhile in fighting that
tendency, I would opt for doing a balance forward and back in this
situation. Otherwise spin the wheel of dance and pick one that matches
custom?
On Nov 8, 2017 2:07 PM, "Maia McCormick via Callers" <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Recently called a dance with an allemande R into long
waves, balance wave,
allemande L. Because of personal preference, I taught the balance as
"balance left, then right", but cuz I didn't teach it all that clearly,
the
dancers defaulted back into balancing right first, and enough tricky stuff
was happening in the dance that I didn't wanna correct them in flight.
I'm just wondering: do others agree that a balance left makes more sense /
flows better in this context, or is this a weird personal preference? In
your opinion, does the flow of the balance left outweigh its potential
unidiomaticness?
Cheers,
Maia
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