Re: [Callers] question about flow and feel

Just wanted to add my 2 cents on Luke's (Lisa's?) dance  I would hesitate to have the last 3 moves in the dance be a partner swing, ladies half-chain, star left, since it seems that more modern contras end with those moves than with any other 3-move combination (eg. The Nice Combination, The Baby Rose to name two)  This makes it tough to fit such a dance into a program, if you would like to have other callers call your dance from time to time If I were trying to finish a dance that had a partner swing (on the gent's original side) in B1, I'd rather go with the slightly less common long lines, ladies half-chain in B2 Mark Widmer ps I seem to be the only one who thinks the women should do a left allemande in the dance Luke posted  -- mainly because of the balance that follows it Bronwyn made the point that the neighbor can better assist leading into a right-hand allemande, but since the preceeding move is a long-lines-fwd-&-back, I'm not sure that is as important here That being said, I just don't get to dance the ladies role very often these days, so will defer to a woman's opinion about the best flow for this dance Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:17:39 -0400 From: Bronwyn Woods <woods.bronwyn(a)googlemail.com> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] question about flow and feel Message-ID:     <a8bd02ee0908251417m12d7e671vbb42d90aa5988d9(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I would find a left allemande awkward.  For me, the issue comes before the allemande rather than after.  When the ladies are on the right, their neighbors can assist them into a right allemande.  The neighbor cannot assist into a left allemande, so the ladies have to break the connection to their neighbor before beginning the figure.  This connection is more important to me than which hand begins a balance. -Bronwyn On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Luke Donev <luke.donev(a)gmail.com> wrote: