Swings are fun. I like neighbor swings. So do many dancers. It's more interaction with your neighbors, which is half the fun. If I have two dances that are very similar, but one has a neighbor swing and one doesn't, I would enjoy dancing the one with the neighbor swing more. However, I also don't think every dance needs a neighbor swing. It is possible to hold both views! To prefer dances that have neighbor swings - even composing variations to insert them when they weren't there originally - and to not require every dance to have a neighbor swing. I can't put words in Don's mouth, but he might have merely meant "I might have called this sooner if it had a neighbor swing", not "I don't care for dances with no neighbor swing". Also, Don, you might want to note these are double progression (the result of left diagonal right and left thru). On a related note, I prefer single progressions to double progressions, but not every dance needs to be a single progression... Cheers, Yoyo Zhou

I suspect that many callers have what Bob Dalsemer labeled "danceritis". The term he should have used is dancerphopia i.e. fear of dancers or more specifically of what dancers might think of the caller. I often see new callers who are afraid of calling programs that will bore the experienced dancers. I'm sure having two swings in every dance is a result of trying to please the dancers as well. Please don't be afraid to call some dances in your program that don't have two swings. They won't hate you!!!!!!!! A program that consists of all contras with two swings is VERY predictable and predictable programs can lead to boredom. Surprise them! Tom