This is a "judge your crowd" dance for sure. The bits aren't challenging individually, but the gestalt may be intimidating.
I'd suggest telling everyone that when they reach the end, they do the choreographed neighbor interaction with their partner, once and a half to trade, and they're right back in. Assure the crowd that they'll do fine. Sprinkly a bit of invisible magic contra dust on the set. Hope it goes well. Jerome Jerome Grisanti 660-528-0858 http://www.jeromegrisanti.com "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 11:36 AM Katie A via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > A Different Way Forward https://share.google/1OzBw4bN7wf8Zu9JN > > I am calling this weekend and walked this dance through with a small group > last night to prepare. I thought it was such an easy, straightforward > dance. 😆 No hard moves, everything flows into the next move nicely... The > end effects were tripping people up even though they *knew* what was going > on. These were all experienced dancers. We only had 2 hands fours and it's > a triple progression dance, so everyone was always involved in end effects. > Maybe that's the only reason it was so complicated. I do know more things I > could point out from the beginning now (the ladies that are out won't be > doing the first allemande, but everybody will be doing the second > allemande; all the ladies will be traveling counterclockwise around the > major set and all the men will be traveling clockwise) but I'm afraid to > call it on Saturday. Is this dance really that hard? What should I think? > 😅 How do I do a better walkthrough? I don't want it to be information > overload but do I need to give a big picture explanation of the dance > before anyone starts moving? Or is this just all going to go better in > longer sets and people will sort out the end effects... ? It's such a fun > dance that I don't want to give it up but I don't want it to be a flop > either. > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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