Slip steps in a circle

Anselm Lingnau

Message 61905 · 15 Oct 2011 09:16:31 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Over on the »Scottish country dance teachers« Facebook page there is a
suggestion that the method for dancing »hands round and back« was »officially
or semi-officially changed« such that we are now supposed to dance eight full
slip steps to the left and then somehow magically reverse direction to do
eight full slip steps to the right, instead of doing what I grew up with
(dance-wise), namely do a slower step-close to prepare for the direction
change.

Personally I would suspect that this is bunkum – and I'm fairly sure that I
have the laws of physics on my side –, but can anybody here shed any light on
the issue?

Anselm
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