My understanding is that the yearn progresses to the second couple. The original George Walker version did just that. His description is that as you pass the first couple you "yearn" to dance with them, but you don't. Hence the term.
On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Alan Winston <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posted a dance description once with "Yearn" in it for a single sideways > Becket progression, and I > was told that was incorrect, that "Yearn" meant forward on the diagonal to > next couple and then back > on the diagonal to finish opposite the *next* couple, progressing two > places. (I'm not saying "double > progression" because that's, in my view, a feature of the whole dance > choreography, and if you had > choreography that backed you up one place and then you progressed forward > two, you might have a single > progression dance with this progress two places move in it.) > > I've seen a couple of people post recently with Yearn for what looks to me > like progressing one place. > > What do you folks think Yearn means? What do your dancers think? > > -- Alan > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
