--- Delia wrote:
One circle of four ended up in the wrong places as the dance progressed and it
appeared that the others near them couldn't figure out how to fix it and land
them in the correct spots
--- end of quote ---
Rather than sending everyone home and doing two more walkthroughs, you might
have fixed that one group-- identifying who were the ones and who were the twos
and where they should now be-- and doing one more walkthrough from that spot,
then starting the dance from that next progressed place. It'd certainly be
faster, less talking on your part, and it would move those two couples farther
away from each other. Sometimes all that's needed is to separate the folks
involved in a "clot of confusion" from one another, and as they get mixed in
with more skilled dancers they'll be helped through the parts they didn't
understand.
David Millstone
Lebanon, NH