On Sun, Sep 29, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote: > On 9/28/2013 11:46 AM, Erik Hoffman wrote: >>On 9/28/2013 8:54 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>> >>>One easy way of shaving time from the walkthrough that I wish more >>>callers would use: *Don't* have dancers return to their starting >>>points, just start the dance from the place the walkthrough lands. >>>That can save up to thirty seconds. >> >>Depends on if you do one walk through or two. With two walk throughs, >>no one is out at the top. With one, you're leaving out a top couple -- >>unless it's a double (or quadruple) progression dance. I no long send >>people back to the beginning if I do two walk throughs unless I deem it >>a tricky dance, where seeing familiar faces again helps solidify how the >>dance goes. > > The argument against starting from the place reached after the > second walk-through is that the couple who were the top #2s or the > bottom #1s will have gotten one walk-through in their current role, > then sat out the second walk-through. if you don't bring everyone > back to their original starting places, then those folks are > starting the dance in a role they haven't gotten to walk through at > all. If the dance is asymmetrical in any way, or if it's early in > the night and new dancers haven't gotten any practice in going > around the end of the dance, this can be really disorienting and > cause instant breakage.
Also, if you call only one walkthrough, if you have an odd number of couples, the bottoms won't have danced at all. Maybe we should have three walkthroughs. > I had been starting from progressed-after-walk-through places for > quite a while, thinking of it as efficient, but got the comment > about the negative effect on those end couples at more than one > dance (both ECD and contra). I've switched to bringing everyone > back to starting positions at least for the first few dances of the > night, and certainly for the tricky dances. Later in the program, > folks are more comfortable with going around the ends and I get more > casual about starting from progressed places. If people are complaining about not going back to the starting point, that trumps my opinion... -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
