In my experience the momentum of an allemande right automatically takes one either to the right or forward. Same goes for an allemande left: momentum takes you to the left or forward. A balance left just doesn't flow after am AR, because if you have a good connection with your allemande you're already pulling to the left a bit. That leaves you nowhere to go, left-wise. SO! I agree with the multitudes here: make the balance F&B.

-Amy

On Nov 8, 2017 11:07 AM, "Maia McCormick via Callers" <callers@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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