March 21, 2006, 7:38 p.m. (Message 44821, in reply to message 44795)
> I agree totally! I like the idea of crossing over on the 2nd chord (although > doing so on the first and bowing/curtseying on the 2nd would be fine too, but if > you start trying to change this now, you'll end up with confusion for the next > few decades). A couple of people have raised this point in favor of 2 chords, but I would argue that two chords ALREADY causes confusion, and that hardly anyone is really "used" to it. In the 16 years I have been dancing in the UK, the US, and Canada, I've never been at a social dance where a large percentage of the room didn't end up scrambling. Even if you remember to do it, a chord just isn't enough time to cross to the other side of the set, so it ends up being rushed and chaotic every time. So, obviously, I'm another vote in favor of moving to the correct place to start the dance while forming sets and one chord (unless a 2nd is needed to acknowledge another dancer in the set -- Bobby Brown's Canadian Breakdown is a perfect example). Lara Friedman-Shedlov Minneapolis, Minnesota USA