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ron.mackey

Re: UP with A&R

May 9, 2007, 1:51 a.m. (Message 48688)

I'm quite amazed by this.  When I learned dancing it was one 
of the regular drills during step practise so that once we had got used 
to it there was no problem at all.  It is all a matter of balance and 
rhythm and as that is the basis of all good dancing, what's the 
problem?  Done well it can be an elegant figure.
	I have noticed that those who love to travel unnecessarily 
large distances to do any dance are inevitably awkward in A & R 
because they can't pull back on their balance.   If you do what we 
rarely hear of today, that is keep the line of head, hips and heels 
there's no difficulty.
	I've just done Bob Campbell's 'My Friend Joe' with a group of 
non-experts and once they'd had a bit of practise they made the one-
step A & R look very good.