Here is the video of Dale calling it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c-lMdyRlRU
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jack Mitchell <jamit...@mindspring.com>wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> Callers mailing list >>> call...@sharedweight.net >>> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
