I've actually seen a caller...encourage the chaos. Gents allemande once
and a half. Now with your partner, allemande some number of times. Go
make a LHS with someone (it's ok if it's a 5 person star, or a 3 person
star, as long as it KEEPS MOVING it'll get you back to your partner for
a swing). I don't go quite that far, but do tell people that the trick
is to not worry about the star being *correct* but to *keep moving* and
come back and swing your partner. Even if they followed you into the
same star, or starred with people in the next set, as long as they
*don't stop moving* (or try to stop and fox things) it'll still work.
Yes, it can verge on chaos, but it also is an amazingly resilient dance.
Jack
On 2/6/2011 9:51 AM, Dale Wilson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM,<richg...@comcast.net> wrote:
So is this coming weekend going to be "Warm Pig" weekend?
I'd be curious how many times it gets called this weekend. I like the bit
about encouraging folks to play around with the stars.
I called it last night and it worked with my revised instructions, but
the "widespread moment of confusion" was still there -- I'd say it was
verging on a moment of total chaos.
There were three people stars. There were six people stars. There
were people starring themselves. I kept calling through the entire
dance -- with particular emphasis on the swing after the star.
Fortunately the dancers seem to find that a lot more fun than I
expected them to (what do I know?) I got several unsolicited positive
comments from the crowd. I think they were intentionally playing with
the chaos. This one's going into my repertoire to be called when the
time is right.
Dale
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