There's one dance variation that I've recently noticed.
Recently, I've noticed that callers and dancers have slightly changed some existing dances. In both cases that I remember (Trip to Lambertville & Tica Tica Timing) a R&L over has been changed to a promenade across. Rights and lefts do seem to be more difficult, especially at bigger dances, and with a larger proportion of beginners. The promenade does appear to make the dance smoother in these cases. Is it really true that right & lefts are becoming less popular in large MUCDs? Are other dances being modified in this way now? Rich Hart. Tom Hinds remarked on 8/21/2011 9:28 AM:
Jim Although I can't answer your first question about keeping track of all the dances, I can say something about what constitutes a new dance. I remember Ted Sannella saying that a dance is new if it has 50% new or unique choreography. By his definition if 50% or more of the dance is different than any other dance then it's a new dance. If a dance has less than 50% it's a variation. He didn't go into any more specifics and I wasn't wise enough to ask any questions. But if you look at some of the old dances like Petronella and Hull's victory, they have identical B parts and unique A parts. The same applies to Chorus Jig and Rory O' More. Squares can also follow this 50% rule. For example there are a number of squares like Queen's Quadrille that have unique A parts while the B part is circle left half, swing corner, promenade. T _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
