On Sun, Jun 21, 2015, Tom Hinds wrote: > On Jun 21, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Aahz Maruch via Callers wrote: >> >>With Ladies Chain, two dancers change places. If they fail to execute >>that part, it's likely that the progression will get affected. That's >>probably not going to happen with a swing that ends up with the dancers >>sashayed or otherwise in the wrong place. > > Aajz, I'm glad you pointed out that you're not calling much. There are some > other situations you might not have observed yet. How about:
Note that I've been dancing contra *and* MWSD *and* IFD for more than a quarter-century each (plus bits and pieces of ECD and Regency and ballet and other dance forms). I have a lot of observations and a lot of opinions from that. You might also note that I wrote my dance RAQ more than a decade before I ever began calling, and my minimal contra plus two years of MWSD calling haven't changed my opinions much: http://rule6.info/dance_raq.html > -the combination, swing neighbor, right and left through. Let's assume a > caller spends a great deal of time teaching the right and left through but > little time on a swing. If the dancers end the swing sashayed what happens > just before the right and left through? Confusion maybe? > > -there's a neighbor swing at the end of the tune. The beginning of the > dance starts with an allemande or swing or some other move with a new > neighbor. How confusing is it for the beginners (and frustrating for the > others) when they end the swing wrong? > > I teach my beginning callers this: If you don't get the newbies to > correctly end a swing, the caller, the newbies and everyone else will be > frustrated at various points during the evening. That's true, but my observation is that people doing the wrong thing for R&L Thru causes more breakdowns than people ending the swing on the wrong side. Quite possibly other people have different data points on this subject, but I think I've got a long enough baseline to make my opinion reasonable. And the fact that many people teaching newcomers concentrate more on things like R&L Thru than swing makes me suspect I'm not alone in my perception. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
