[Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

[Meg Dedolph via Callers]

Ha! I read that book, but I thought I came up with that trick on my own.
Maybe I remembered it long after I read it and thought I'd invented it. :)
Meg
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:58 AM John Sweeney via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Meg said, "I have better luck teaching that to beginners if I teach the
> grand right and left first and *then* add the allemande left, rather than
> teach it in the sequence it's presented in the dance."
>
> The same advice was given by Lloyd Shaw in "Cowboy Dances" in 1939:
> "It is so simple that it may seem labored to teach it in two parts in this
> way. But I have found, especially with a large crowd, that it saves a lot
> of confusion and innumerable collisions. Starting with the simple Grand
> right and left gets their directions established and the men get in the
> habit of always going right and the ladies always going left with a
> serpentine, touching alternate hands. Once this is established it is easy
> to add the preliminary left hook of the Allemande, and the trick is done.
> But try to teach the two manoeuvers at the same time to a large crowd and
> you will have them all running off wildly in all directions, and the
> stampede will be hard to check."
>
> Nothing changes! :-)
>
> For beginner groups, especially one night stands, I don't add the
> Allemande at all.
>
> Happy dancing,
> John
>
> John Sweeney, Dancer, England john at modernjive.com 01233 625 362
> http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
>
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