When calles at our dances do this, I lobby hard to not have them invited back. The message I get is "only I can be helpful to newcomers; you experienced dancers, don't even try." If you've got experienced dancers who are doing things that confuse newcomers, you (or someone) need to teach the newcomers how to be helpful. Preventing them from doing so is not a way to build a local dance.
--Read Weaver Jamaica Plain, MA http://lcfd.org On Nov 25, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Michael Barraclough wrote: > I called a dance (4 More Years, its on my website) with that figure on > Friday night at Glen Echo. I deliberately didn't call the figure by > that name since as soon as you mention the name of the figure, everyone > who knows what it is starts. Instead, I described who was doing what > and then said that it was like a shuttle or sliding doors. Later on in > my calling I shortened the prompt to sideways. As far as I could judge, > pretty much everyone got the move (there were about 50 newcomers and 200 > more regular dancers). > > At the end of the evening I was taken to task for not calling it by its > proper name so that "everyone would know what it was"! > > Michael Barraclough > www.michaelbarraclough.com > > > > On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 18:12 -0800, Greg McKenzie wrote: >>> So...can we get rid of that "Angry Robin" figure now?
