[Callers] Calling to a square dance crowd

[Rich Sbardella via Callers]

Another difference is that calls such as R&L Thru have a different beat
count depending on the starting position.  From a static square R&L Thru is
8 beats as in contra, but from a wavy line or a box, it is only 6 beats.
MWSDers also rush their dancing because so many callers use "clipped"
timing to avoid stop & go.
Rich

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, Joe Micheals wrote:
> >
> > I have often thought that contra and round dancing had in common a
> > person who cues/prompts ahead of the phrase of music.  MWS dancers who
> > Round dancer would be able to relate to that...
>
> That's what I would think/expect, but I've seen plenty of round dancers
> who don't seem to get the concept of moving to the beat when square
> dancing (I've only seen round dancing at square dances, so they're all
> also square dancers).
>
> It probably relates somewhat to what some MWSD callers derisively name
> "pattern walking": people who learn a concept in one context are not
> able to easily translate that into another context.  For these people,
> R&L Thru as normal couples is completely different from sashayed R&L
> Thru, it's two different calls that happen to be named the same.
>
> My take is that because of the need to prime muscle memory, almost
> everyone is a pattern walker at some level (e.g. many/most MWSD people
> who gender swap agree that Allemande Left is one of the more difficult
> calls -- despite being technically gender-neutral, you normally turn left
> as a man and right as a woman to find the person you're allemanding, and
> that's a difficult muscle memory to prime).
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