At the risk of derailing this conversation, ah, I definitely am derailing it so will change the subject line.

I’d like to see new COVID-aware choreography with fewer swings. If swinging is perhaps the most dangerous thing we do while dancing, I’d like to see some new dances that emphasize partner swings and de-emphasize neighbor swings, and at least some dances without any swings.

I’m intrigued by the idea that dances without swings open up 32 beats of opportunity for new choreography.

Lisa Sieverts
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On 23 Nov 2022, at 9:30, Jeff Kaufman via Contra Callers wrote:

> "during the average contra evening, you will spend approximately 30 minutes
> swinging"
>
> Tangent: I thought "that can't be right" but a little playing with numbers
> and I think it is.  My back of the envelope: guess ~12 dances, each ~17
> times through, with ~20 beats of swinging per dance.  That's 4k beats of
> swinging, which at 118bpm is 35min.  Another way to think of it is that in
> a 3hr evening half of your time is dancing and a third of that is swinging.
>
> Jeff
>
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