This dance progresses in the first "A", so you can do one walk through while heads of sets wait out, and then roll everyone in with the music for the second round.
It was getting late, way past my normal bed time, so I made a couple of small mistakes. I missed the opportunity to start the walk through with the ending partner swing. I like starting there because it gets everyone to orient with partners on a home side and sets the transition/flow to the top of the tune in body memory. I also flubbed the B1 walk through. If you call this with good timing and keep the flow, dancers will understand the flow and forces more experientially. I let the momentum die while I stumbled on words - explaining anchors and the chain.
Timothy
Knoxville TN
On Fri, 2024-02-16 at 21:14 -0500, Timothy Klein via Contra Callers wrote:
After several discussions with new callers about a lack of dance walk through videos, I've started recording some of mine (when I can remember!). This past weekend (Cabin Fever, Knoxville TN), I had the wonderful help of Jim Crawford to add footage from the floor and to mix in the house audio. I'm sharing that here for whatever benefit it brings folks.
Some interesting things happened that changed how I called this dance:
- The lines were crowded, so I backed the gents up to suggest that they cross the gent in the next set by the right (overlapping orbits).
- There was some confusion about shadows, but it really doesn't matter who that is, so I ignored/squashed questions about direction and just let the dancers muddle into it.
- I'm started at B2 in order to put the pass through progression at the end of the dance (making the dance improper.) I do this sometimes for reasons that I don't always recall.
I hope these videos prove to be useful.
Timothy
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