12 Dec
2008
12 Dec
'08
2:03 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:17:57AM -0500, Will Loving wrote:
The majority of beckets rotate left-flowing or clockwise (CW) but an
increasing number are being written and danced which flow to the
right or counter-clockwise (CCW). To setup for teaching a becket
dance, most callers will simply say, "take hands four and circle one
place to the left to becket formation" regardless of the direction
of flow.
However, for a CCW dance, some callers will give the instruction to
"take hands four and circle one place to the right". Though this is
technically correct with regard to the flow of the dance it seems
that, at least to the dancers, it's not really necessary and they
sometimes scratch their heads about "circle to the right?".
I should think whether to tell people to circle one place to the right
for a CCW dance would depend on how important it is to the dancers to
be going the direction they thought they would be going when they
lined up.
In my experience, people who were dancing when there were more unequal
turn dances want to know if they are a one or a two. People who
started more recently often don't care. So what I would say would
depend on the crowd.
If you really want to start an argument, write an improper dance that
progresses backwards and ask people who are the ones and who are the
twos.
Jeff