Hi Seth
Thank you for your detailed and helpful response. 
Cheers
Ted

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> On Dec 6, 2021, at 4:03 PM, Tepfer, Seth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ted,
> 
> Great questions. Here's the dance: https://contradb.com/dances/951
> Finding shadow: Here's what I'd do. "Neighbor swing. Robins allemande right 
> to in front of your partner. give left hand to your partner. Everyone freeze. 
> Look over your left shoulder - there is someone looking at you - wave at them 
> with your right hand. That's your shadow." Now, with your partner, Allemande 
> Left 3 places. There's your shadow!"
> When you are out, your shadow is across the set from you. Your choices are to 
> either wait out at top until partner swing or allemande shadow, then slide 
> back to P for swing. Teaching end effects is always a crap shoot. What 
> percentage of the room will remember all those words you said after the music 
> starts and they have been having fun for 6x through the dance? 
> Yep, standard progression (technically) in the neighbor swing of A2. Or B2.
> 
> Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP
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> From: Ted Sims via Contra Callers <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 2:54 PM
> To: Shared Weight Contra Callers <[email protected]>
> Subject: [External] [Callers] teaching Naked in California
>  
> Hi everyone
> This is kind of a newbie question. I've never called Naked In California 
> [Nils Fredland] before and I'm thinking about how to teach it. I think I've 
> mostly figured it out, but I welcome your comments on my thoughts below:
> 
> (1) I would like for everyone to identify their shadows straight away. I 
> think the best way is to have everyone take hands in long lines then "If you 
> are on the end and your left hand is free, your shadow is the person in your 
> right hand (introduce yourselves). Everyone else, your shadow is the person 
> across and two to the left of you".   Is there a better way? 
> 
> (2) After the partner allemande, if the dancers on the ends have no one in 
> the right hand, it seems to me that they have to stay put (there is no wrap 
> around etc.). Is that correct?
> 
> (3) It looks like people out on the ends need to swap in the usual way.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
> Ted
> 
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