strathspey@strathspey.org:40426

mlamontbrown

Cross over two couples. Was: Lead - Right hands or Nearer Hands

Jan. 27, 2005, 11:55 a.m. (Message 40426, in reply to message 40423)

Pat wrote:

> Sometime in there folks started doing 4-bar Rights and Lefts which, to my
> tastes, is rather inelegant and, quite frankly, pointless.  (gratuitous
> editorial comment)  One wonders why they wanted to dance so quickly with
> these 4-bar figures.....

Following on from Richard's last comment, do you think that they might have been
dancing two steps to the bar, in the same way that we did when Maxwell's Rant was
first published?

Malcolm

Malcolm L Brown
York