Chris wrote: > Tonight I had a pretty bad gig (just a hint: don't schedule a dentist > appointment for the afternoon before your gig). So tonight I made some > choreographic goofs when choosing my dances. One dance I realized that > it didn't flow as well as I would have hoped after the walkthrough. > Should I have aborted and called something else? Tom Hinds has a line "I > don't like that dance, let's do something else". However, he usually > follows it by teaching the very same dance again. I stuck with it and > just ran the dance a little shorter.
What wastes as little as possible of the dancer's time? Bag it if it doesn't work during the walkthrough, but if it's merely a little infelicitous in the dance and you can keep it working by prompting, then running it long enough that it feels like a dance, but not as long as a *good* dance seems like a good choice. > The same thing happened a little later when I called two dances in a row > with the sequence: ladies chain, ladies "x" once around, partner swing. > I realized it during the walk through, but went ahead and called it anyway. > What do you think? Abort or deal with it? Depends on the crowd, and on where you are in the evening. If there are enough beginners, doing something like this can be a positive, confidence-building strategy. If there are too many sharpies in the crowd, you can expect joshing later. But you're really asking how to make judgments when your judgment's impaired (by pain or anesthesia or whatever). That's a harder question. -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [email protected] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
