Good point. I agree. Thanks, George On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Jeff Kaufman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Contra dancing has almost entirely lost the 'proper' formation, with > gents in one line and ladies in another. For most of contra dancing's > history, however, that was the standard formation and many people, > especially callers, still think of it that way. > > I was at a dance recently where the caller noticed that there were > many new dancers and that it probably wouldn't work to just wait for > people to get into position. They told all the couples to stand with > the ladies in one line and the gents in another, to take hands for > from the top, and that this was proper formation. Then they introduced > 1s and 2s and had all the ones cross over. But they didn't call any > proper or assymetric dances all night! Which is fine; I think they > chose good dances for the crowd. But why introduce the terminology? > Especially when there's so many other terms we want them to be > absorbing? > > Jeff > > PS: I also posted this on my blog, and there are some comments there: > > http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-05-04.html > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
