26 Sep
2016
26 Sep
'16
9:10 p.m.
The Barraclough and Goldman experiences with the dance already have
belied my suspicion, but what I was thinking was that the extremely
common use of "circle left 3/4 and swing on the side" was going to
interfere with "Circle left all the way and swing on the side", and that
we might see a failure mode of going three places and swinging partner
there.
Reality has already proven me wrong.
-- A;an
On 9/26/2016 5:38 PM, Yoyo Zhou wrote:
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Alan Winston via
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If you call it tonight, I suspect some dancers will have some
trouble with the circle left all the way around the second and
subsequent times through.
But let us know how it goes!
I think circle left all the way around (rather than 3/4) is not
inherently difficult for contra dancers.
Circle lefts that are hard:
- Circle left 1/2. It's so easy to just keep circling.
- Ending with gents ahead of ladies on the side. (e.g. N swing; *then*
circle left 1)
This is because almost all of our circles end with ladies ahead of
gents on the side (to set up for a swing, or a pass thru/CA twirl
progression), so we're very used to ending our circle lefts with
ladies in 1st corner and gents in 2nd corner places.
Yoyo Zhou