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