My experience at house parties is that there are always plenty of people who are happy to (stand around and drink and) chat, so the situation may just take care of itself. On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:23 PM, Leslie Gotfrit wrote:
> That is, in a pinched space. I don't know how else to phrase it. Is it > possible to wait out an extra turn or two at the bottom so that the number of > couples actually dancing is smaller than the number of couples in the contra > line? (I couldn't look up the question in the archives because explaining it > is wordy.) Has anyone tried it? > > Are there other methods for dealing with not enough room? > > Background: I'm calling a house party contra with room for one contra line of > 16-18 dancers but need 24 paying participants (to cover the band and me). > Given that some people will be late, others chatting around the food, there > won't be four extra couples dancing but maybe one or two or maybe none. There > is a "waiting area" off to the side that doesn't take space away from the > contra line. > > thanks, this forum has been invaluable to this newbie caller > Leslie Gotfrit > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
