Relay the What?
Oct. 28th, 2008 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisTonight's club night with the Chesapeake Squares went well. We started the evening with a Mainstream tip but once we did a survey and found there weren't any Mainstream dancers, we stepped up the program to alternate Plus and Advanced.
Plus had some problems but mostly the folks just needed a little extra cuing to push them through the calls. (Seriously though, it would help immensely if one or two of the weaker dancers would shut up so they could hear the calls. Lord knows how many calls were missed because they were busy talking about something else.) We did a quick 10 minute review of 'relay the deucey' during the break. A couple dancers are still stumbling through --they lose their orientation on the floor easily on any turn larger than 90 degrees-- but we largely managed through it all.
The first A2 set was a rolling disaster. For some odd reason, 2-3 dancers just weren't finishing the calls. I'd call 'three quarter thru' but they left off the centers trade, I'd call 'scoot chain thru' but they'd leave off the final extend, etc.. I joked that they might as well do the entire call 'cause I'm paid the same either way. :-)
The second A2 set was vastly better: perhaps they just needed an extended warm-up. I really hope that (a) we get the A2 boot camp for February off the ground, and (b) these folks sign up for it... it would be a superb workshop opportunity for the folks who need an A2 refresher.
I talked to John about possibly using his employer's space for Ken Ritucci's Advanced blast weekend February 13-15. While I haven't seen the space myself, it was well-received by the Plus dancers a month ago. He'll check the space's availability tomorrow.
No Chesapeake Squares next Tuesday (US election day) or the following Tuesday (Veterans' Day).
Plus had some problems but mostly the folks just needed a little extra cuing to push them through the calls. (Seriously though, it would help immensely if one or two of the weaker dancers would shut up so they could hear the calls. Lord knows how many calls were missed because they were busy talking about something else.) We did a quick 10 minute review of 'relay the deucey' during the break. A couple dancers are still stumbling through --they lose their orientation on the floor easily on any turn larger than 90 degrees-- but we largely managed through it all.
The first A2 set was a rolling disaster. For some odd reason, 2-3 dancers just weren't finishing the calls. I'd call 'three quarter thru' but they left off the centers trade, I'd call 'scoot chain thru' but they'd leave off the final extend, etc.. I joked that they might as well do the entire call 'cause I'm paid the same either way. :-)
The second A2 set was vastly better: perhaps they just needed an extended warm-up. I really hope that (a) we get the A2 boot camp for February off the ground, and (b) these folks sign up for it... it would be a superb workshop opportunity for the folks who need an A2 refresher.
I talked to John about possibly using his employer's space for Ken Ritucci's Advanced blast weekend February 13-15. While I haven't seen the space myself, it was well-received by the Plus dancers a month ago. He'll check the space's availability tomorrow.
No Chesapeake Squares next Tuesday (US election day) or the following Tuesday (Veterans' Day).
