Luke wrote: > Hi Paul,
> Good topic, thanks for starting it. > I remember being at a crowded dance in Montpelier with Nils Fredland > calling, and he did 4 face 4 dances. I was initially surprised, but it made > good use of the space. By merging two sets laterally it eliminated the space > that would normally be between those sets and made folks aware of 7 other > dancers instead of 3 other dancers. > I think it depends on the geometry of the hall, but 4 face 4 dances can be > good, non-obvious, efficient use of space. Just something to add to that > part of your tool-box. To expand rather than contradict - 4-face-4s, especially the ones that sort of turn into squares for a moment - are very vulnerable to compression up and down. I fairly recently danced one in hall that wasn't quite long enough for the crowd, and I emerged somewhat bruised. (People had fun, but it wasn't super-safe.) -- Alan
