On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:01:26 -0400, Will Loving <[email protected]> wrote: . . . > Actually, I like Alternating Corners despite the fact > the caller has to keep calling. And my perception > is that modern dancers generally like it too compared > to a more traditional corners dance like Chorus Jig > where you have to wait to be active (and which may > never happen if sets are long). For a dance like this, > sometimes all you need is a Lisa Greenleaf style > minimalist prompt such as quietly saying "ones" and > "twos" just to keep things going. I think the alternation > makes the dance more interesting and I don't see it > as my purpose to have every dance send dancers off > into that la-la, altered zen state (that I nonetheless > cherish as a dancer...)
> Will There are at least a few alternating corners dances out there -- the one that I call has a circle left immediately before the ones and twos need to figure out who is active, so as a caller it is easy to see who to prompt If there are couples at the top of each set who are not in a circle-of-four, it's the twos' turn; if the top of each set has a full circle-of-four, then it's the ones At some point in the dance, I have essentially dropped the calls except for prompting "ones" or "twos" to be active -- and occasionally I get distracted and drop that as well, but the dancers always knew what to do when that has happened Mark Widmer
