Jerome wrote:
> Cary Ravitz explains one way to diagram a dance on his web page: > http://ravitz.us/dance/chor.php#d > Tom Hinds includes diagrams in his book "Calling New England Squares." > There are other more graphical methods. In general, for each move in a dance > diagrams should indicate where dancers are, differentiate between men and > women, between ones and twos (or 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, heads and sides in a > square). It's also very helpful if the diagram indicates which direction the > dancers are facing. You'll very quickly realize which moves or series of > moves are "neutral," i.e., put everyone back where they just were, facing > the same direction. > If you know Flash or some programming language, you can get really fancy, as > did Martha Edwards: > http://www.westendweb.com/doublegrandsquare/ > (Actually, Cary is a programmer, but he's very aware that not all of us are, > so he keeps his web page pretty accessible). Thanks for those references! > And of course, there's always salt and pepper shakers.... I like coins. (Different denominations for different numbers - pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters tells you who's who in a square, face-up or face-down for gender, and you can have them face one way or the other.) -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [email protected] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
