On Sun, Jun 21, 2015, Tom Hinds wrote:
On Jun 21, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Aahz Maruch via Callers
wrote:
With Ladies Chain, two dancers change places. If they fail to execute
that part, it's likely that the progression will get affected. That's
probably not going to happen with a swing that ends up with the dancers
sashayed or otherwise in the wrong place.
Aajz, I'm glad you pointed out that you're not calling much. There are some
other situations you might not have observed yet. How about:
Note that I've been dancing contra *and* MWSD *and* IFD for more than a
quarter-century each (plus bits and pieces of ECD and Regency and ballet
and other dance forms). I have a lot of observations and a lot of
opinions from that. You might also note that I wrote my dance RAQ more
than a decade before I ever began calling, and my minimal contra plus
two years of MWSD calling haven't changed my opinions much:
http://rule6.info/dance_raq.html
-the combination, swing neighbor, right and left
through. Let's assume a
caller spends a great deal of time teaching the right and left through but
little time on a swing. If the dancers end the swing sashayed what happens
just before the right and left through? Confusion maybe?
-there's a neighbor swing at the end of the tune. The beginning of the
dance starts with an allemande or swing or some other move with a new
neighbor. How confusing is it for the beginners (and frustrating for the
others) when they end the swing wrong?
I teach my beginning callers this: If you don't get the newbies to
correctly end a swing, the caller, the newbies and everyone else will be
frustrated at various points during the evening.
That's true, but my observation is that people doing the wrong thing for
R&L Thru causes more breakdowns than people ending the swing on the
wrong side. Quite possibly other people have different data points on
this subject, but I think I've got a long enough baseline to make my
opinion reasonable.
And the fact that many people teaching newcomers concentrate more on
things like R&L Thru than swing makes me suspect I'm not alone in my
perception.
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