My favorite progression requires Becket formation: circle left and then slide up/down and circle with the next pair.
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Greg Allan via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > That is a somewhat familiar story from my point of view. I dance in a number > of different folk dancing communities - a varied program here in Winnipeg. > It's quite common, as people from one group attempt to get interest from > other dancing groups, that some people know what they like and what they > don't like, and that's that. For example, people who English country dance > often don't like contra because of the increased exertion and tempo. > Personally, I'm not much of a fan of triple minor dances. Everyone's got > their thing. But there's always a reason for it. It could be a bad > experience, or it could be a stylistic feature of a region, where everyone > does a figure in a way you find unpleasant. Hard to say. To leave an event > because someone programmed something you didn't like? ... I'm not sure to > make of it. You don't like it you don't like it, I suppose. > > We don't do Becket formation here at all, really. If someone left at the end > of a night because of Becket formation, I would assume they didn't want to > start learning new things late in the evening. > > Greg > >
