Another thing to keep in mind about Sicilian Circles is that they use the rectangular space of a typical hall much less efficiently than contra sets, so if you're planning to call an interesting dance this way you may show up and find the hall is too crowded for it to be workable. Also an issue with Zias.
Jeff On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM Robert Matson via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Our dances are generally beginner-heavy. Our priority is to get people > dancing and enjoying moving to the music as quickly as possibly. We often > do Sicilian Circles. Our participants like them fine. We've never seen > anything to make us think that the curvature of the lines causes an issue. > > We've sometimes reformed simple contras as Sicilian Circles to make them > even easier to dance since any kind of end effect, even the simplest, can > confuse beginners. > > For our purposes, I like this idea of taking a dance with a challenging > end effect and dancing it as a Sicilian Circle. Thanks for the good idea. > > Rob > > - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Robert Matson > Cell: (917) 626-2675 > > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Rick: Can you provide the names of four or five dances that you feel >> have complicated enough end effects that you might want to call them as a >> Sicilian circle? >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM Rick Mohr via Contra Callers < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Many good contras where you leave the minor set aren’t too hard, but >>> have challenging end effects. One could eliminate the end effects using a >>> Sicilian circle. I haven't tried it, but wonder whether disorientation from >>> the curved set would offset the advantages. >>> >>> If you’ve actually tried it, how did it go? >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> (...ignoring for the moment that Sicilian circles don't fit every hall >>> or size of group...) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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