I've not encountered problems with dancers not doing the figures described in the dance, but I have experienced a certain amount of dissatisfaction when dancing dances with similar figures.  I think there is a tendency to want to alternate hands/shoulders as you encounter other dancers.  Similar to a hey or Right and Left Grand if you pass one person by the right the tendency is to want to interact with the next by the left.  This can be overcome, but requires thinking about what the next figure is rather than just doing it and it can make it difficult to "get into the groove" the way many dancers like to do.  I don't think this is always the case, but I have certainly come across occasions when it just seemed like we were turning by the wrong hand or whatever.

Jonathan
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Jonathan Sivier
Caller of Contra, Square, English and Early American Dances
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On 3/27/2016 3:24 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote:

I called Young Adult Rose last night and experienced a near-complete
dancer revolt about the shadow allemande.  The dance is written with a
circle left 3/4, pass P by R along the line then allemande shadow R 1x,
before coming back to P for a balance and swing.  The dancers all
_really_ wanted to do the allemande by the left.  I tried calling it a
few times with the R hand, then gave up and called it L and they were
all much happier.  Anyone else experienced this?

Kalia

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