I too enjoy Becket dances. But when I think about the why of incorporating them in my
planning a dance, its more about variety of flow, dance moves, and level of difficulty. I
personally find dancing a night with 6 balance the waves or 4 Rory O'Moors, or
worse, the combination of them, very less enjoyable, regardless of the band, caller, or
dance partner(s). And I try to remember this in planning a program for others. Not
all Beckets are "difficult" so I use the "easier" Beckets to vary
programs when I'm working to enhance perspective and create variety and keep the more
experienced engaged in a dance evening. And I use the the more difficult, or engaging,
Beckets to challenge or enrich.
So I enjoy Beckets, and find that sometimes I have to "hold back". And I also
agree with what Alan has said.
Laurie
West Michigan/ Grand Rapids
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
<winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <winston(a)slac.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Beckets
To: gtwood(a)worldpath.net
Cc: callers(a)sharedweight.net
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6:40 PM
Gale wrote:
Hay folks,
Typically, how many Becket dances will you call in an
evening?
I seem to be on a Becket "kick" as of late, and don't wish
to
over do it.
I don't think dancers particularly care about Becket vs improper per se.
They care (to some degree *) about the dances seeming too similar, but
I think what gives that impression is largely transitions (do they all start
the same? do they all end the same?), distinctive figures (do they all
have Rory O'Moore balance-in-lines in them?), to some degree mood (are they
*all* slinky? are they *all* rowdy?), not whether you have them circle left 1
place after they take hands four.
If you aren't boring the dancers with sameness, I don't think you have
to worry about the actual numbers.
That said, I seem to call somewhere between 0 and 4 out of 10.
-- Alan
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