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Zhou via Callers
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1:03 PM
To: Maia McCormick <maia@gmail.com>
Cc: callers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] Balancing LEFT in a wave?
For flow, it depends what comes after the balance. If it's followed by an
allemand
On 2017-11-11 12:09 PM, Peter Simonyi via Callers wrote:
I was in a dance with a similar sequence just last weekend.
Please bear in mind I'm piecing together memories from the middle of a
dance weekend. The caller was either Mary Wesley or David Eisenstadter
and I can't recall enough context
I was in a dance with a similar sequence just last weekend.
Please bear in mind I'm piecing together memories from the middle of a
dance weekend. The caller was either Mary Wesley or David Eisenstadter
and I can't recall enough context to decide who it was. The part of
the dance I remember went
In my experience, on Beat 1 a dancer's weight is more likely to land on
their right foot. This is why balancing left is inherently a challenge
when it flows from other moves. So I also agree that Forward and Back is a
nice solution.
Erik Erhardt
(505)480-4462 StatAcumen.com/dance
On Wed, Nov
In my experience the momentum of an allemande right automatically takes one
either to the right or forward. Same goes for an allemande left: momentum
takes you to the left or forward. A balance left just doesn't flow after am
AR, because if you have a good connection with your allemande you're
<callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Mac
Mckeever via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:16 PM
To: callers@lists.sharedweight.net; Maia McCormick
Subject: Re: [Callers] Balancing LEFT in a wave?
sorry - I missed that you said the all
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
Hi Maia,
A balance, ideally, is first toward, then away from, the dancer with whom one
is about to interact, and even better if it is in, then against, the flow of
movement. Even better if the choreography does the work for you by flowing
into the balance.
In this particular dance, you have
sorry - I missed that you said the alle L followed the balance - in that case -
I think the first bal should be left. To bal R & then L and then turn by the
left just sounds awkward.
Mac Mckeevr
On Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 2:09:46 PM CST, Mac Mckeever
wrote:
I've noticed that dancers' natural tendency is to balance towards the hand
that touches first in these situations, which is consistent with what you
report. Should the rest of the dance be truly worthwhile in fighting that
tendency, I would opt for doing a balance forward and back in this
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
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