Next, you're going to tell us that only left-handed callers are in their right mind, I suppose. Chris Tepfer, Seth wrote:

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What about all the righties? Are all the people not speaking up right handed or left handed and not chiming in? I'm really curious about this now. This is fascinating. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

I'm right handed and left-eyed. Walter Tepfer, Seth wrote:

I'm a righty, but I'm married to a lefty. Does that make me special? On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Barbara Groh wrote: <>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<> Delia Clark PO Box 45 Taftsville, VT 05073 802-457-2075 delia_clark(a)comcast.net

On 2/6/08, Tepfer, Seth &lt;LABST(a)emory.edu&gt; wrote: Probably because the group that feels they're in the majority doesn't bother responding because they feel it's a less interesting answer. I'd assume you'd get the same thing if you asked how many callers called while trying to manage a young child at the same time. Cheers, -Chris Page San Diego (off on the right)

Jack wrote: [proposes this way of teaching contra corners] Haven't tried this. I like the wave idea for orientation, and I really like that this approach is constructed to function in the duple minor format. ("First corners" and "second corners" as we have them for contra corners is really a triple minor or triplet idea laid on top of a duple-minor set. Action goes outside your set but without giving you a familiar face, which is also confusing.) Explicitly having them allemande L 1x is *guaranteed* to leave the inactives facing the wrong way, so maybe you can say something like "flip around" or "you're done with those actives; turn your backs on them and welcome new actives" or some such thing. I'm a little worried that experienced dancers programming will kick in and as soon as you get them in waves they'll start balancing, but maybe if you tell them it's contra corners before you start doing it, that'll take care of the problem. Not me. There are some trad English dances where you balance in lines across and then balance in lines up and down and the actives swing, but they're not *that* similar to this. Minor technical problems in laying your sequence onto a 32-bar AABB tune, if I have this right: 1s allemande R 5/8 into wave: (4) balance the wave (4) Allemande L 1x reform wave (4) balance the wave (4) 1s allemande R 3/4 into wave (4) balance the wave (4) Allemande L 1x reform wave (4) balance the wave (4) (32 counts, typically two phrases) Actives swing (8 or 16) This sequence needs to start on a phrase boundary, I think, because the music coming around again reminds dancers that they need to do something. You need to get the actives progressed, or tolerate having the top active couple having to fake having upstream neighbors during the first time through the dance. So you might need tunes that don't drastically change character from A to B, or end the dance with the balance in the second wave, or something. [I'm really tempted to keep futzing with this, but it's your sequence, so I'll stop now.] -- Alan =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================