Accidentally sent only to Maia. Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Winston, Alan P." <wins...@slac.stanford.edu> > Date: November 8, 2017 at 11:30:06 AM PST > To: Maia McCormick <maia....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Balancing LEFT in a wave? > > I would say the potential unidiomaticness of the balance left is *very high*. > In a regular Rory O’More kind of balance R&L, slide R, balance L&R, slide L, > I always see a quarter to an eighth of the dancers balance right first both > times. (I can get it down a lot by pointing out that you always balance to > the same person first, but very rarely can get everybody.). > > So as you saw, if you try to overcome the “right first” balance you’re really > fighting the tide, and it’s going to be a lot of work. > > In the particular case you describe I’d think you’d do a lot better (both for > flow of the dance and for getting the dancers to do what you tell them) to > strongly suggest they balance forward and back to set up the allemande rather > than L&R *or* R&L. > > That said, to answer what you specifically asked, I agree that L&R makes more > sense than R&L, but I don’t think it’s a *lot* more sense (that is, R&L isn’t > even close to fatal) , and it’s not the hill I’d choose to die on. > > -- Alan > From: Callers <callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Maia > McCormick via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> > Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 11:07:20 AM > To: callers@lists.sharedweight.net > Subject: [Callers] Balancing LEFT in a wave? > > 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 > happening in the dance that I didn't wanna correct them in flight. > > I'm just wondering: do others agree that a balance left makes more sense / > flows better in this context, or is this a weird personal preference? In your > opinion, does the flow of the balance left outweigh its potential > unidiomaticness? > > Cheers, > Maia
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