On Sun, Jan 06, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote: > On 1/6/2013 3:00 PM, tavi merrill wrote: >> >>I'm wondering if anyone could point me towards dances that really hit a >>homer - things like: Jubilation (Gene Hubert), Thanks to the Gene (Tom >>HInds) Another Nice Combination (Tome Hinds), Star Struck (Nick Boulet), >>Simplicity Swing (Becky Hill), The Carousel (GH), The Baby Rose (David >>Kaynor), All You Can Eat (Ted Crane), 20 Below (Bill Olson)... dances that >>can be the bread and butter of a less advanced evening, or just a handy >>fall-back for more capable crowds. Dances without down-the-hall, and >>without awkward transitions (right&left through -> circle L?! agh!). > > Without addressing your actual question, there's a fix for that oogy > transition that Lynn Ackerson showed me. Lynn, you here? Hi! > Instead of a R&L through with courtesy turn, do a no-hands > pass-through straight across and a California twirl into the circle. > It feels great.
...except that people seem to have a lot of trouble actually DOING it because they are so used to doing a courtesy turn. (I wrote a dance with pass thru, twirl, men allemande. I've learned that I have to make people walk through that the pass thru/twirl three times and they still often don't do it properly.) -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
