[Callers] Re: What are your favorite “style points?”

Good hand placement on swings No/loose thumbs Flourishes are optional How to accept or decline a basic Twirl Looking at the other dancer even if no eye contact Opportunities for eye contact - especially in dances where you can connect and one role follows the other without contact Looping wide where appropriate (hey for four, other various examples where one role has momentum and can flow into another move) Good shared weight, especially for beginner crowds End effects, as relevant and not intuitive from the choreo How to properly do a pushback in a ricochet hey Spinning the correct way in a petro spin How a courtesy turn is two people moving as a unit, not one person scooping the other around 1 step per beat of music, forwards usually - (newbs love to side shuffle on swings, ya know?) When a move has extra time to fill, or arrive early, etc Asking people who sat out to dance A swing should be smooth, not skipping Optional swings (like the Shadow thread, or a same role alle R in the middle, sometimes) After walking through a few connected moves, conveying how to flow them together Prolly more, but, I'll stop here. :) In dance, Julian Blechner He/him Western Mass On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 4:24 PM Harris Lapiroff via Contra Callers < contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: