As the caller for the chestnuts session, I simply should have broken the long
lines for all the dances in half, as we did with Money Musk, the next to last
dance. With that dance, we were able to get everyone to be an active couple.
I was impressed with the relative ease at which this setting up the sets took
place; last year, we used small orange cones-- thank you, Linda Leslie-- to make
a separation between the top set and the bottom set in a line, but dancers managed
to create a space with no visible marker, and hold on to that separation.
I should have done that with the other dances, too. It would have made it possible
for everyone to be active without resorting to the solution that Luke suggests.
Lesson learned.
Notorious played some terrific music for the session. I was struck with the final
times through Hull's Victory, where the band went from key of D to Eb to E to
F. Whew!
For those interested, we danced:
Petronella
Rory O'More
Hull's Victory
Morning Star
Money Musk
Chorus Jig
David Millstone
