On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Read Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I find is that about 3/4 of the dancers take 8 counts to do the > circle 3 places, then a brief but indeterminate amount of time to do the > pass through, and then arrive late to the next couple & next figure. (The > other 1/4 take 6 counts to circle, 2 to pass through, and are then on the > music's phrasing for the next figure.) > > It seems like a caller could point it out which might help some (though > dancers' experience that everything is in a count of 8 or 4 is pretty > ingrained), but the avoidance of teaching seems to prevent that--I don't > recall any caller ever saying anything about it. > If the next move after the pass through is timing-critical, like a balance, then the caller can strongly cue that move, such as: "...new N, balance _now_!" That's what I do when I find people are invariably running late, and it often tends to fix it within a few repetitions. If the next move is something where the timing can be fuzzy then I'll often point out the tight timing during the walkthrough, but let it slide during the dance. -Grant- -- Grant Goodyear web: http://www.grantgoodyear.org e-mail: [email protected]
