Call dances where the dancers have physical contact as much as possible I.e. circles allemandes etc. Avoid moves like mad robin and heys. Change heys to heys with hands etc. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 27, 2019, at 4:06 PM, callers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net wrote: > > Send Callers mailing list submissions to > callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > callers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > callers-owner(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. What can you do as a caller to help people on the floor who > clearly have no sense of the flow of a dance? (Winston, Alan P.) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:40:07 +0000 > From: "Winston, Alan P." <winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> > To: Caller's discussion list <callers(a)sharedweight.net> > Subject: [Callers] What can you do as a caller to help people on the > floor who clearly have no sense of the flow of a dance? > Message-ID: > <DM5PR07MB40384E35F4585353A59A01A5F2860(a)DM5PR07MB4038.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > What do you as a caller to help people on the floor who clearly have no sense of the flow of the dance? (Sometimes you see people who will absolutely fight the flow of the dance to go the wrong way / do the wrong thing; there are others who are just sufficiently tentative about every figure that they've arrived at this figure late or with no useful momentum, or maybe they take so long to process a prompt that they'e dumped all their momentum by the time they're ready to move. ) How do you help those people? > > Who goes through the middle first in a Mad Robin was the example that made me think about this , but there are also questions like "coming out of the circle left which direction do the larks orbit while the robins allemande and which hand do the robins allemande with?" where answers seem inevitable but aren't. > > If you see people who are confused about the answers to these questions where the flow of the dance should answer them there's certainly always the possibility of continuing to prompt with the answers, but that's not really helping to develop an important skill I think is central to satisfying contra dance. > > -- Alan >