Yes, several English country dances have this; the move is sometimes called “falling stars” (when there are 3 or 4 in a row). I think the difficulty comes from people not expecting to move on to a new couple after just 4 counts—we’re used to doing things that only take 4 counts, but moving to a new couple in the middle of a phrase is rare. I see teaching that says “look where you are at the beginning and think where you’ll be half-way ‘round” but it doesn’t seem to help much; focusing on “you’ll be with new people in just 4 steps” may work better.
Read Weaver Jamaica Plain, MA http://lcfd.org > On Apr 22, 2018, at 9:48 AM, Chris Page via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a heads-up. > > There's a number of ECD dances, especially 4-couple set dances, that have a > sequence of progressive 1/2 stars. > > When teaching them, I find them to be the hardest part of the dance for > dancers, > and where it's most likely to break down. > > So the difficulty level may be more than you expect. > > -Chris Page > San Diego > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was recently thinking about star to star transitions. There are lots of >> great dances that go star 1x to opposite hand star 1x (such as Lisa >> Greenleaf's "Poetry in Motion", Robert Cromartie's "Al's Safeway Produce", >> Linda Leslie's "Burlington Spirit"...); and then there are the star -> same >> hand star dances (Mike Richardson's "Star Trek", my "Voyager", Dugan >> Murphey's "The Next Generation"...) >> >> Are there dances that use star just half way -> with next, opposite hand >> star 1/2 way? I'm envisioning something with a bit of a zig-zag feel, but >> that could be done in crowded dance halls where you don't want folks >> swooping out laterally (like John Coffman's "Boys of Urbana"), but more >> connected than a single file promenade snake like Cary Ravitz's "March of >> the Coffee Zombies". >> >> Are there already dances out there like this? _______________________________________________ List Name: Callers mailing list List Address: [email protected] Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
