Also, you can just change many right and left throughs into promenade across if you want to make a dance easier for beginners. Martha
On Mar 27, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Cheryl Joyal via Callers wrote: > The courtesy turn is the hard part. Sometimes Teaching hat first works as > they practice the movement prior to moving - then have them walk across and > do same turn. Similar for ladies chain although I think having a dance with > R&L b4 chain is my new approach. And sometimes it just doesn't work with > many beginners - so I apologize for not explaining well and change to an easy > backup dance > > Cheryl Joyal > 630-667-3284 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 27, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Jacob Nancy Bloom via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would absolutely believe that the dancers were completely confounded by > "right and left through". I remember how surprised I was, when I called my > first dance, to discover how much more confusing it was than a Ladie's Chain. > If you are used to both of them, then you tend to think of them as being > similar. If you've never done either, then one of them has you connected to > other people, while the other leaves you by yourself, trying to figure out > which way to turn (and usually getting it wrong.) > > But learning which figures are easier and harder comes quickly. Learning > which dances to call for a given crowd and how to teach them efficiently is a > neverending process! > > Jacob > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Brooks Hart via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > So, as the original poster, I am reporting back. > > The dance with the solo fiddler was a mixed bag. The music was very nice, > but because I am new to calling, and our dancers are 99% beginners, way too > much time was spent on walk-throughs and teaching. The fiddler sat out for > long stretches of time, which seemed like a waste of his time and the money > spent on live music. > > I thought I had picked easy dances, but you wouldn't believe how confounded > so many of the people were at "right and left through", and that falls on me > and my lack of experience with teaching and crowd wrangling. > > A special moment for everyone, though, was doing a circle waltz dance with > the fiddler playing, unplugged, in the center of the circle. > > So, thanks again for everyone's input and encouragement, > Brooks > > > > > > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 03:50:51 -0700 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Callers] Solo fiddler or recorded music? > > From: [email protected] > > > > [resting up before the CALLERLAB convention, catching up on some older > > messages] > > > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015, Neal Schlein via Callers wrote: > > > > > > So, the moral of the story is that if a caller isn't USED to working with > > > a > > > band, live music isn't necessarily going to result in the best experience > > > for the dancers. > > > > My experience as a relatively new caller is that it also depends on the > > caller's experience as a dancer. My hearing makes it a bit difficult to > > tune into the phrasing of a live band to call at the correct times, but > > because I've been contra dancing for so many years (almost exclusively to > > live music) I can roughly manage it -- and I know what it's supposed to > > sound like. > > -- > > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > > <*> <*> <*> > > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > _______________________________________________ > > Callers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
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