Logistically, I think Greg's approach is difficult to make work. There's always a new move happening after the pass through, so in effect, you'll be calling four beats of "pass through, something something," usually "balance here" or whatnot. Because there's no break between the instruction "pass through" and the instruction that follows it, I don't think dancers generally realize from that phrasing that the pass through is intended to occur after exactly six beats of the circle.
I find experienced dancers often take longer than 6 beats to circle three places. Regardless of whether callers should be teaching to beginners during a walkthrough, it can help experienced dancers to hear exactly how many counts a move should take in a particular dance. It's something a lot of ECD callers do, but you don't see it much in contra. -Dave On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Greg McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Instead of "explaining" that a circle takes only "6 counts" I would gently > suggest that callers consider simply giving the prompt "pass through" so > that it ends precisely two counts before the end of the phrase. > > That way you can "say it all" with only two words and the dancers get to > keep moving in time with the live music. Make it fun! > > Just a thought. > > Greg McKenzie > West Coast, USA > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- David Casserly (cell) 781 258-2761
