On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Leslie Gotfrit <[email protected]> wrote: > That is, in a pinched space. I don't know how else to phrase it. Is it > possible to wait out an extra turn or two at the bottom so that the number of > couples actually dancing is smaller than the number of couples in the contra > line? (I couldn't look up the question in the archives because explaining it > is wordy.) Has anyone tried it? > > Are there other methods for dealing with not enough room?
It seems easiest to let as many couples dance as are comfortable with the space and suggest to them that they can swap out when they reach the end(s) of the line. It's possible to arrange this in a particular way, but some dancers want to dance more and others want to sit out more, so they can work out among themselves who gets to go in the next time. (Of course, some dances that deal with multiple neighbors or shadows with be more ...interesting... to swap during.) Yoyo Zhou
