28 Nov
2015
28 Nov
'15
10:20 p.m.
Tony,
I always teach a RLT with each person only touching the fingers of the person coming
towards them and to never be touching those fingers when their shoulders meet. The reason
being, in MWSD they grip that persons hand and there is a tendency to hang on resulting in
the lady being pulled to her right.
With new or non-dancers, I teach a pass thru and California twirl and if two men or women
are dancing together. arch their inside hands and the person on the right ducks under
while the person on the left walks to the right with both facing back across the set. Men
don't like to curtsy turn another man. I also tress this point, that you BOTH pivot on
your joined hands or on the center spot between the dancers. This is also important in
doing a curtsy turn in a ladies chain. The men Must take the ladies position and keep the
pivot point as it was before the ladies cross over.
Otto WartemanTrinity, Texas
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:43 AM
Subject: [trad-dance-callers] Re: Dances with R & L Thru
I second the mention of Gene Hubert’s The Turning Point; it’s one of my favorite
modern contras. How about Ted Sannella’s Yankee Reel? I use it as a first exposure to
Right and Left Thru (RLT). It ends with Half Promenade and RLT; I explain Half Promenade
and then tell the dancers that RLT is a lot like it, except that they’ll “melt” through
the opposite couple instead of steering completely around them. They seem to get the
courtesy turn better if they’ve just done the same thing at the end of the promenade.
Of the 20 or 30 basic moves that occur in most traditional squares and contras, I think
RLT is the hardest one for new dancers to comprehend. It’s a compound move: you go
straight and then you turn, and you turn in a way you couldn’t have predicted. The most
common error, in my experience, is for dancers to do a right-face solo turn after the
cross. This is true whether or not they give right hands on the cross. In areas where
giving right hands is the norm, it’s important to tell them to let go quickly and not let
the handhold force them into turning alone. After 50+ years of teaching, I still
haven’t decided whether it’s better to introduce RLT before or after Ladies Chain. Tony
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