A Stormy Rush-Hour

Alan Paterson

March 15, 1998, 1:03 p.m. (Message 11261)

This is in response to Becky Sager's dance which she broadcast on this
list a few days ago. It
really is addressed to Becky, but perhaps others of you who have also
tried out the dance may be
interested in talking about it.

We tried it out last Friday with our 'advanced' group.

Firstly, there are several things which I DO like - so this is not a
hatchet job :-) On the whole it
was nice to dance, But ...

The diagonal rights-and-lefts in six bars degenerated every time into
a wild melee in the middle of
the dance (we even repeated the whole thing, so this happened 16
times). I really don't think that
this is a practical figure.

To end by praising the good bits.

Indeed, why not have a left shoulder reel-of-four? It works in
extremely well with the figures
before and after.

The last 16 bars make for a very interesting (and enjoyable)
progression. The problem was that
people started to feel very nervous when, after an eight-bar phrase,
they were no longer opposite
their respective partners! There was sometimes a bit of shuffling
about as a result and then, after
the next eight bars, "Oops, I've changed partners again!".

(If only the first eight bars, could be made a bit easier!)

Thanks Becky, for giving us the opportunity to try something new.

Alan

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Alan Paterson
Berne, Switzerland
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