For flow, it depends what comes after the balance. If it's followed by an allemande left, you'd be better balancing left. Allemande right: balance right. Walk forward: balance forward and back. Box circulate: right and back.
But getting dancers to balance left - except as the second half of a Rory O'More-type figure - is hopeless, in my experience. It's my vote for "hardest move in contra dancing". So I'll say "balance forward and back" in such circumstances. Yoyo Zhou On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Recently called a dance with an allemande R into long waves, balance wave, > allemande L. Because of personal preference, I taught the balance as > "balance left, then right", but cuz I didn't teach it all that clearly, the > dancers defaulted back into balancing right first, and enough tricky stuff > was happening in the dance that I didn't wanna correct them in flight. > > I'm just wondering: do others agree that a balance left makes more sense / > flows better in this context, or is this a weird personal preference? In > your opinion, does the flow of the balance left outweigh its potential > unidiomaticness? > > Cheers, > Maia > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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