Hi Rickey,
Just to nitpick: The couple on the caller's left in a becket formation
would progress down the hall after a 3/4 circle left.
As I imagine your second scenario, I picture everyone holding two hands
and facing into the center of the circle (even though their bodies may
be slightly twisted and walking to the left). Then you're asking the
gent to make a sharp left and pass right shoulders with the next woman
in line. There is also the added difficulty in changing people's focus
away from the foursome they are working with.
One of the reasons that a circle left 3/4, pass thru works is that, even
though the timing is tight, everybody can help to make it work. Gents
can give their neighbors a guiding hand in the right direction and
ladies can spiral their path to cut between the neighbors.
I don't know how much you have danced the ladies role, but there are
several moves that feel awkward for one gender and great for the other.
Do you think anymore about the need to walk backwards during a courtesy
turn? A woman finds that very difficult when she tries it the first few
times, but then grows accustomed to it.
I don't believe that what you experienced is a problem. Just another
instance where good dancing makes it great and poor dancing makes it
awkward.
Chris
Rickey wrote:
Really!
When I asked recently about the transition in the first move of a Beckett
from circle left ¾ and do-si-do neighbor (or pass through and do-si-do the
next neighbor), I was interested in differences in the experience for the
man and the women. Try these two figures. To simplify this description I am
thinking of the couple who are together in the line on the caller’s left
(i.e. the couple who in setting up the Beckett with “Hands four, Actives
Cross over and all circle left one place to the left”, started out as the
active couple).
(1) As the first move in a Beckett again, or at least from that “home”
position, circle left ¾ and pass through to the neighbors above, or the next
neighbors above that.
(2) Starting as before, circle left ¾ and have the man go down and pass
through and do-si-do the next neighbor below, while the woman goes up and
passes through and do-si-dos the next neighbor above. This last figure I
have worked into a dance.
Still Surprised in New Hampshire.
Rickey Holt.
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