30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
10:37 a.m.
On 11/30/15 2:30 AM, Colin Hume colin(a)colinhume.com [trad-dance-callers]
wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:53:02 -0800, Alan Winston
winston(a)slac.stanford.edu [trad-dance-callers] wrote:
Quite right, although you wouldn't have any reason to take hands eight
to start. Instead, everyone below the top six just does what the
original 1s need them to do when the 1s get to them (which may be
nothing) and then carry on making that same judgment for each pair of 1s
as they get to them. With a staggered start, all you have to do is have
it be okay to be neutral and not think something's wrong if you get left
out of the figure.
-- Alan
Thus, the association in my mind with neutral
couples - if it is
double progression simultaneous start triple minor, neutral couples
can make it work.
And of course a simultaneous start (and a simultaneous finish)
is
simply the mid-section of the way it would have been danced then -
these days we cut out the gradual build-up to the point where
everyone is dancing and cut out the fade-out ending which finished
with just the bottom three couples dancing. So it would have also
worked with a staggered start.
Colin Hume