Hands up or down?

cnordj

Message 9503 · 4 Nov 1997 00:47:29 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Yes, Lillian, I agree on all points. Right palm up, left palm down is what I learned
in the Los Angeles Branch, and it is beautifully consistent for playing man or woman.
How else could the first couple do the final set between own-sex 2 and 3 in J. B.
Milne with any grace? Consistency is good. Simplicity is good. What I learned is
good (prefered), and this is it. Thanks for saying it so well.

Cheers, Carol Johnson

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Lillian Cunningham <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>...
> I was taught, practically from the time I started dancing,
>always to give right hand palm up and left hand palm down. ...
> Thus, to me, giving hands that way seems neither polite
>nor impolite, and not a restrictive rule either. It is just convenient,
>smooth and easy. ...
> Have any other of you folks danced in a group where left-palm-down
>and right-palm-down system was a comfortable norm? Or even the reverse
>system? Does anyone share my preference?