14 Jan
2013
14 Jan
'13
7:44 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013, Ryan Smith wrote:
The #1 thing I do is to remember that the world will not end if you get it
wrong. At most, you will leave approx 2% (estimating 100 people per line)
of the dancers out for the last time through, less if the lines are uneven
as it's offset by people who would've been out at the ends. In my
experience talking with dancers who've been at it for years, most of them
didn't know that callers try to end with everyone at the top dancing.
Amusingly enough, this past weekend was the third time I've done calling,
and both of the previous times I'd called a beckett with nobody out.
This time I called two dances, both standard duple improper, and on the
second dance, I called a 3-2-1 to the band, realizing only on the last
go-round that it would leave dancers at the top of the set who hadn't
danced the current round. So I did a whirling motion at the band to
tell them to do one more to bring everyone in.
So yeah, count me as another person who didn't know about this rule and
figured it out on the fly.
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