On Fri, Apr 08, 2016, James Saxe via Callers wrote: > > The sort of stuff I'm talking about strikes me as more suited for > a challenging session at a dance camp/weekend than for a regular > evening dance--and even more so now than at the time of Ted's visits > to California 25-30 years ago, on account of the generally lower > average familiarity of contras dancers with squares. Indeed, if > someone were calling at the kind of dance camp/weekend where the > acceptable number of squares to call is quite limited, I'd hope they'd > lean towards squares that they were confident they could put across > without stressing the dancers' readiness to remain cheerful in the > face of confusion.
Note that the vast majority of MWSD dancers would have even more difficulty. I'm at the Queer Contra Dance Camp this weekend, and a *lot* of us are happily swapping gender roles in the middle of the dance (including a dance last night that including a Right & Left Grand -- yes, it was a 4x4). Contrariwise, relatively few square dancers these days can manage to dance to the music. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
