Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-06 Thread Billin HI . via Callers
I have never danced this dance, or even the one it derived from. Might I suggest that what you are seeing is due to ambiguity of what you mean to the un-initiated. If there is an even number of couples, everyone participates in the 1st Pullby. Then on the Right Diagonal Pullby everyone but the

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-05 Thread Linda Leslie via Callers
> > bill > > > From: Callers <callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Bob Green > via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 11:00 PM > To: Kalia Kliban > Cc: Caller's discussion list > Subject: Re: [Callers] Beneficial

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-05 Thread Linda Leslie via Callers
> > bill > > > From: Callers <callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Bob Green > via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 11:00 PM > To: Kalia Kliban > Cc: Caller's discussion list > Subject: Re: [Callers] Beneficial

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-05 Thread Bill Olson via Callers
ne. bill From: Callers <callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Bob Green via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 11:00 PM To: Kalia Kliban Cc: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tr

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-04 Thread hgrastorf via Callers
list <call...@sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition I have always thought part of the difficulty is that the ladies momentum is away from each other in that last pull by, leaving them a distance away from each other. On the end there can be some indecision about being

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-04 Thread Bob Green via Callers
I have always thought part of the difficulty is that the ladies momentum is away from each other in that last pull by, leaving them a distance away from each other. On the end there can be some indecision about being in or out. In XYZ (which has a different set of challenges at the end with the

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-04 Thread Ryan Smith via Callers
The rule for the end-effects on this one is surprisingly simple: "If nobody gives you their hand, don't go anywhere." The messiness usually comes from people feeling like they should be going somewhere, similar to what happens with a diagonal chain or right & left through. This is just different

[Callers] Beneficial Tradition

2018-01-04 Thread Kalia Kliban via Callers
Hi all, I recently called Beneficial Tradition for the first time and noticed a consistent hitch in the dance at the top of the set. It was probably happening at the bottom too. I was doing the variant with no wave balance in the A1, just Women allemande L 1x and P swing. Though the

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition end effects

2016-10-22 Thread Jack Mitchell via Callers
The biggest trick to dancing/calling Beneficial Tradition is to do precicely what we tell folks not to do for a R Thru -- pull by and HOLD ON to let that turn you back to face back in. Then let go and pull by with the other hand. Think about how new dancers always try to do a R thru with hands,

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition end effects

2016-10-21 Thread JD Erskine via Callers
On 2016-10-21 1733, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: Hi all I haven't yet called Beneficial Tradition, but think it might be a good fit for an upcoming dance. Does it get weird at the ends or does it flow reasonably well? I danced it years ago and don't remember. If you pull by RH to go out

[Callers] Beneficial Tradition end effects

2016-10-21 Thread Kalia Kliban via Callers
Hi all I haven't yet called Beneficial Tradition, but think it might be a good fit for an upcoming dance. Does it get weird at the ends or does it flow reasonably well? I danced it years ago and don't remember. If you pull by RH to go out on the right diagonal, do you cross solo to the