On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM, James Saxe <[email protected]> wrote: > Yoyo, I'm curious why you think a dance being in Becket formation > would make the end effects less confusing (either for dances with > out-on-minor-set interactions in general or for "Vote with Your Feet" > in particular) than in a duple improper dance of otherwise similar > complexity.
Perhaps it's not the becketness per se that makes it more forgiving to couples out at the ends, but how much time they have to figure out what to do next. There's a detail I observed when teaching Steve Zakon-Anderson's 3-33 to a small crowd of beginners. Dancers progress in B2 and then immediately in A1 a couple is out at the top. I saw some people flummoxed by the choices available, (a) turn to face their partner and balance and pull by as neighbor #1, (b) trade places to wait improper (at the top) and wait for neighbor #2. Neither of these is hard, but not knowing what to do can throw in that instant can throw off even seasoned dancers. By contrast, in Vote with Your Feet, the dancers progress in the A section, so the couple out at the top has all of the B section to wait improper for neighbors to come at them. Even if they end with a swing in B2, there is only one way to end that swing. Nonetheless, I agree that this belongs in the more challenging end of the range of things you can do to leave the minor set. Yoyo Zhou
