Last Class
Nov. 5th, 2006 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisYesterday afternoon, Kent & I called the last of a series of seven Saturday afternoon Mainstream square dance classes in Baltimore.
Our newbies have done very well through the course. As expected, they absorbed a huge number of calls in the early sessions, then the rate of absorption slowly dropped as the calls increased in sophistication and names began to sound or resemble each other in small ways, creating a mental lag in recall. To their credit, they collectively retained more information between sessions than I would have and the most commonly used calls were all done very smoothly with good flow.
After running through the entire call list and workshopping some calls which were causing minor issues --mostly ones freshly introduced in the prior session-- we spent an hour introducing the most common flourishes. I wish we had a full square of angels for that portion for demonstration purposes but we made do with what we had and I think it went well.
Club night is Tuesday but since the center where we dance is a polling station, there's no dancing this week. Hopefully, all club members will come out for the following session on November 14 for the official graduation.
Our newbies have done very well through the course. As expected, they absorbed a huge number of calls in the early sessions, then the rate of absorption slowly dropped as the calls increased in sophistication and names began to sound or resemble each other in small ways, creating a mental lag in recall. To their credit, they collectively retained more information between sessions than I would have and the most commonly used calls were all done very smoothly with good flow.
After running through the entire call list and workshopping some calls which were causing minor issues --mostly ones freshly introduced in the prior session-- we spent an hour introducing the most common flourishes. I wish we had a full square of angels for that portion for demonstration purposes but we made do with what we had and I think it went well.
Club night is Tuesday but since the center where we dance is a polling station, there's no dancing this week. Hopefully, all club members will come out for the following session on November 14 for the official graduation.
