Hi Tavi,
Examples of gents chain that give good flow are
"The Broken Mirror" by Bill Olson
http://youtu.be/BoTRWVLDeII
and
The Copenhagen Interpretation by Micah Smuckler
Lisa, I like your method for courtesy turn. I find with beginners,
for LC that the same works, L right with each other
I teach the courtesy turn before I teach the dance. In contra lines, I have
dancers allemande right their neighbors "and don't stop. " Then I instruct the
women to put their free hand in the small of the gents back--voila! It's a
courtesy turn for a gents chain. I make a big point of
I've noticed that Gents' chains are rather infrequent in contras, and i
started asking "why?". Chaining the gents(/men/bands/leads) opens up new
flow opportunities with star R, more intuitive circle R, et cetera. Why do
we use them so little?
After a year or so of mulling on this, i think it's
