Ha! I read that book, but I thought I came up with that trick on my own. Maybe I remembered it long after I read it and thought I'd invented it. :) Meg On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:58 AM John Sweeney via Callers < [email protected]> wrote:
> Meg said, "I have better luck teaching that to beginners if I teach the > grand right and left first and *then* add the allemande left, rather than > teach it in the sequence it's presented in the dance." > > The same advice was given by Lloyd Shaw in "Cowboy Dances" in 1939: > "It is so simple that it may seem labored to teach it in two parts in this > way. But I have found, especially with a large crowd, that it saves a lot > of confusion and innumerable collisions. Starting with the simple Grand > right and left gets their directions established and the men get in the > habit of always going right and the ladies always going left with a > serpentine, touching alternate hands. Once this is established it is easy > to add the preliminary left hook of the Allemande, and the trick is done. > But try to teach the two manoeuvers at the same time to a large crowd and > you will have them all running off wildly in all directions, and the > stampede will be hard to check." > > Nothing changes! :-) > > For beginner groups, especially one night stands, I don't add the > Allemande at all. > > Happy dancing, > John > > John Sweeney, Dancer, England [email protected] 01233 625 362 > http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net >
