David Millstone wrote: > Doing what your friend suggested-- double balance-- seems mighty frenzied. > You'd need to circle left in six counts-- certainly possible, but needs > everyone rarin' to go, double balance for eight, and race through the > twirl in two counts. Why the rush? >
From a different aesthetic, what bothers me most is the timing of the balances. Nearly all balances are: * On the phrase: balance (4) and swing (12) * On the half phrase: circle 3/4 (8), balance (4), pass through (4). * On the quarter phrase: ladies in to a 'tidal' wave (4) balance (4). This is partly convention and partly the structure of tunes. This dance would have people six beats into the phrase needing dance a balance that would cross the half-phrase boundary. Unless you had a great tune for it (which would be a bad tune for most dances), the music won't tell the dancers when to start the balance and they'll be unhappy. Jeff -- Jeff Kaufman http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/
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