In a message dated 2/22/2013 3:53:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, callers-request(a)sharedweight.net writes: Send Callers mailing list submissions to callers(a)sharedweight.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to callers-request(a)sharedweight.net You can reach the person managing the list at callers-owner(a)sharedweight.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." Today's Topics: 2. Re: Slow M'Ocean (Perry Shafran) Message: 2 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:04:02 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Shafran <pshaf(a)yahoo.com> To: Caller's discussion list <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Slow M'Ocean Message-ID: <1361556242.16277.YahooMailNeo(a)web120702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 April, This is if both the gents and ladies move to their shadow rather than just the ladies moving, as originally written, yes?? Because the way it's originally written (and the way we danced it on Wednesday), when the gents don't move, then it's the same same-sex neighbor each time.? Did you intend for the gents and ladies to both move towards their shadow and stay with their neighbors?? I thought it was a REALLY nice and fun dance, BTW, and magic when everyone finally got it. Perry **************************************** It's a little like Double Mud Pig, in that you have a permanent shadow (for the ladies, it's the gent to the left of their partner, on the same side of the set, for the gents right ditto), but also, during each iteration of the dance, you have a "temporary" shadow -- your current opposite sex neighbor. That neighbor/shadow is with you in both waves, and the ladies chain to that neighbor at B1, but you never swing that N/S. Does that answer your question? I don't think it matters if both parties move, AS LONG AS you wind up across from your (new) opposite sex neighbor at the beginning of each iteration, that same N at the end of A1, and at the end of A2. I suspect that the dance offsets slightly (as does Double Mud Pig, a wonderful dance which also tends to break down, with a couple left out in the middle). Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed it. April