Thankfully, first-timers have no need to know what "hands four from the
top" means.  Their more experienced partners will show them immediately.

- Greg

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Donald Perley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Risky in itself.. often they will then make that circle with the other
> couple they lined up with, and be out of sync with sets of 4 from the top.
>  That false calibration then propagates downstream and has to be fixed
> later.
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In a mixed crowd, I find it more effective to say "Take hands in circles
> > of four people".  Even if a new dancer has just attended a workshop,
> he/she
> > might not yet recognize "Hands four from the top".
>
>

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