--- Delia wrote: One circle of four ended up in the wrong places as the dance progressed and it appeared that the others near them couldn't figure out how to fix it and land them in the correct spots --- end of quote ---
Rather than sending everyone home and doing two more walkthroughs, you might have fixed that one group-- identifying who were the ones and who were the twos and where they should now be-- and doing one more walkthrough from that spot, then starting the dance from that next progressed place. It'd certainly be faster, less talking on your part, and it would move those two couples farther away from each other. Sometimes all that's needed is to separate the folks involved in a "clot of confusion" from one another, and as they get mixed in with more skilled dancers they'll be helped through the parts they didn't understand. David Millstone Lebanon, NH
