Re: [Callers] Yet another "Anyone seen this dance?" - Import1

26 Sep 2016

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:
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  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