On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:17:57AM -0500, Will Loving wrote: > > The majority of beckets rotate left-flowing or clockwise (CW) but an > increasing number are being written and danced which flow to the > right or counter-clockwise (CCW). To setup for teaching a becket > dance, most callers will simply say, "take hands four and circle one > place to the left to becket formation" regardless of the direction > of flow. > > However, for a CCW dance, some callers will give the instruction to > "take hands four and circle one place to the right". Though this is > technically correct with regard to the flow of the dance it seems > that, at least to the dancers, it's not really necessary and they > sometimes scratch their heads about "circle to the right?". >
I should think whether to tell people to circle one place to the right for a CCW dance would depend on how important it is to the dancers to be going the direction they thought they would be going when they lined up. In my experience, people who were dancing when there were more unequal turn dances want to know if they are a one or a two. People who started more recently often don't care. So what I would say would depend on the crowd. If you really want to start an argument, write an improper dance that progresses backwards and ask people who are the ones and who are the twos. Jeff
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