13 Aug
2018
13 Aug
'18
2:02 p.m.
I agree that calling a circle right after a promenade across, has better
flow than a circle left, but I am reluctant to call a circle right in my
first dance (unless it follows a circle left). I prefer to use the first
dance to teach basic calls I will be using all night, and I believe that
the body, or muscle, memory learned in that first dance will help the
danceability all evening. Teaching them to circle right, when they will be
circle left all evening, works against my goals.
I do call dances with circle right, just not as part of my first few dances
of the evening.
Rich
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Yoyo Zhou via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Maia McCormick via
Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Had a busload of beginners at my dance last night and realized I have a
hole in my program -- I don't have any good glossary/beginner-friendly
dances with a promenade but no chain or RL through. Any suggestions?
>
A nice one is Promenade Right by Luke Donforth (note: it has a circle
right):
http://www.madrobincallers.org/2013/06/25/three-tries-at-simple-dances/
Also, some of the dances below can be adapted by changing a right and left
thru to a promenade across.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby <adeislau
by(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I find that there aren’t many dances with a
Promenade or RL that are NOT
followed by a circle left. When Dancing promenades to circle lefts, I don’t
like them as an experienced dancer because they don’t feel good and as a
caller I watch new dancers struggle with them because they don’t flow
logically unless the dancers correct for it (which one won’t know how to do
unless they’ve been dancing a very long time and are attuned to momentum.)
I agree with your assessment about promenade/right and left thru to circle
left.
I find right and left thru or promenade can also often be followed by one
of these, which flows better:
- ladies chain (very common)
- left hand star (example: True Grit by Chris Page:
http://chrispagecontra.awardspace.us/dances/#true-grit)
- circle right (see above)
- hey, ladies pass right (example: Zoey and Me by Sue Rosen:
http://dance.suerosencaller.com/dancedb/view/?title=Zoey+and+Me)
- ladies allemande right (example: A-1 Reel by Chris Weiler:
http://caller.chrisweiler.ws/dances.htm#a1reel)
Yoyo Zhou
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