Jeff Kaufman <[email protected]>:
>As a musician and a caller, I have mixed feelings on callers jumping
>back in for the last time through. Changing the dance to end with a
>partner swing ("this time, long lines, swing your partner") can be
>nice, but mostly I don't think bringing the calls back in adds very
>little and detracts from the music.
If the dance has a satisfying ending as it is, it stays. But I can't think of
a worse way to end a dance than with "Dosido next neighbor" or "Pass Through
along the Line". So I plead guilty as charged!
There are other ways to handle the situation. If it is the end of a set and
there is a partner swing at B1, then I'll use B2 to ask the dancers to thank
the band, and they do. Also, in very rare cases I'll ask the band to play an
extra B (for the A1 partner swing in Batja's Breakdown) and then go out.
As far as the question of where you go out in Becket dances that progress in
the middle of the phrase, it seems to matter less than DI, but I prefer to have
the dancers "in" at the top at the end ('cuz most Becket dances these days end
with a partner swing). If you screw it up, don't worry about out. There are
*lots* more important things to worry about.
Dan
