Just wanted to add my 2 cents on Luke's (Lisa's?) dance I would hesitate to have the last 3 moves in the dance be a partner swing, ladies half-chain, star left, since it seems that more modern contras end with those moves than with any other 3-move combination (eg. The Nice Combination, The Baby Rose to name two) This makes it tough to fit such a dance into a program, if you would like to have other callers call your dance from time to time
If I were trying to finish a dance that had a partner swing (on the gent's original side) in B1, I'd rather go with the slightly less common long lines, ladies half-chain in B2 Mark Widmer ps I seem to be the only one who thinks the women should do a left allemande in the dance Luke posted -- mainly because of the balance that follows it Bronwyn made the point that the neighbor can better assist leading into a right-hand allemande, but since the preceeding move is a long-lines-fwd-&-back, I'm not sure that is as important here That being said, I just don't get to dance the ladies role very often these days, so will defer to a woman's opinion about the best flow for this dance List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:17:39 -0400 From: Bronwyn Woods <woods.bron...@googlemail.com> To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] question about flow and feel Message-ID: <a8bd02ee0908251417m12d7e671vbb42d90aa598...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I would find a left allemande awkward. For me, the issue comes before the allemande rather than after. When the ladies are on the right, their neighbors can assist them into a right allemande. The neighbor cannot assist into a left allemande, so the ladies have to break the connection to their neighbor before beginning the figure. This connection is more important to me than which hand begins a balance. -Bronwyn On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Luke Donev <luke.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sitting at home writing a contra (they get in my head and won't > leave me alone till I write them down). I unfortunately don't have a > closet full of dancers to pull out and test things on, but I've got a > question about flow. > > When the ladies are standing to the right of their neighbor on the > side of the set, facing their partner, and are going to allemande > over to their partner for a balance and swing, should it be an > allemande Right or Left? I feel like the R is more traditional for > ladies, but an allemande L would leave their R hand free for a > smoother transition to a balance and swing (I feel lead's L, follow's > R is a better 1 hand balance to go into a swing with than lead's R, > follow's L). > > To put it in context, consider the following dance: > Sample dance 1, Improper > A1: N bal & swg > A2: long lines, fwd & back > Ladies Allmnd L 1+ to partner > B1: ptr bal & swg > B2: ladies 1/2 chain > star L 1x, on to next > > I think the ladies should allemande L there, but I'd be curious what > other people think of the flow. > > If it was something like going to a R hand R hand balance for a box > the gnat, it would seem to force the issue, but it seems more open > when it's just going into a swing. Preferences? Thoughts? > > -- > Luke Donev > http://www.lukedonev.com > luke.do...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________
