I have often thought that contra and round dancing had in common a person who cues/prompts ahead of the phrase of music. MWS dancers who Round dancer would be able to relate to that... On Feb 22, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Aahz Maruch via Callers wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, Jerome Grisanti via Callers wrote: >> >> One other thing you might encounter is different interpretations of >> language and timing. So for example I've seen MWSD groups perform a >> "do-si-do" as a four-count swing rather than an 8-count back-to-back. And >> I've seen chains take six counts, with the other two counts spent wondering >> why the caller hasn't prompted the next move already. > > These are *not* standard MWSD timings. In fact, the official timing for > dosado is six beats (eight from static square), and I got into an > argument with an MWSD caller a few years back when he claimed that it > was, is, and always shall be eight and only eight beats for dosado. Then > he was flummoxed when I pulled out my smartphone and showed him that > CALLERLAB disagreed with him. > > (Some of y'all might guess exactly which caller I'm referring to by the > way I'm phrasing this. ;-) > > Similarly, I've seen instructors at caller schools beating on callers who > fail to properly give the dancers enough time for "up to the middle and > back". > > OTOH, it's sadly true that (as other posts in this thread have noted) > square dancers and callers mostly don't pay much attention to phrasing. > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net