Maybe I’m missing something here, but how can a triple progression dance be expected to work if only two hands-four are dancing?
* Elizabeth Bloom Albert * On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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