A "Bands Chain" dance is a better choice as a challenging dance for a venue where role-free dance is atypical. In a role-free setting, men as well as women are comfortable with dancing either role in a chain, so in practice there's really nothing very special about a bands chain. ... Bob
On Dec 9, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Luke Donforth wrote: > Hello All, > > In the near future, I get to call for my first gender free dance. I'm > looking forward to it, and thinking about my program. I was contemplating > putting in Bands chains. The gents chain is a move that seems by and large > ignored in conventional contra dancing; the occasional dance I've seen > using it is usually greeted with grumbling. Are gender free dancers more > open to the move? > > I was thinking of the following dance (where barearms are on the right > after a swing) > > *A1* > Neighbor Balance and Swing > *A2* > Promenade Neighbor across and courtesy turn > Barearms chain across the set (pull by right) > *B1* > Barearms do-si-do 1x > Partner swing > *B2* > Bands chain across (pull by left, courtesy turned by neighbor) > Right Hand Star 1x > > I've sent the question directly to the dance organizer, and I'm > cross-posting on facebook, but I also wanted to poll the folks here. > Thoughts? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Luke Donforth > [email protected] <[email protected]> > www.lukedonev.com > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
