Last Night's Mainstream Class
Nov. 20th, 2007 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisLast night's square dance class scared me a little, at least at first.
When we first brought the two squares out onto the floor and began the warm-up, absolutely nothing was going right. I expected a little difficulty with the latest calls we showed them (circulate, pass the ocean, etc.) but I didn't expect right & left grand and allemande left to spontaneously combust since they've seen those since the intro night months ago. WTF?!
My initial feeling of panic & dread was unfounded though... they were just slow to warm up. By the end of the first tip, most of the older material was working well. By the end of the second tip, even the latest material was danced with an impressive degree of confidence.
Last night's new calls were absorbed without trauma or difficulty. The last tip reviewing all of the calls to date was pretty smooth, all thing considered.
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When we first brought the two squares out onto the floor and began the warm-up, absolutely nothing was going right. I expected a little difficulty with the latest calls we showed them (circulate, pass the ocean, etc.) but I didn't expect right & left grand and allemande left to spontaneously combust since they've seen those since the intro night months ago. WTF?!
My initial feeling of panic & dread was unfounded though... they were just slow to warm up. By the end of the first tip, most of the older material was working well. By the end of the second tip, even the latest material was danced with an impressive degree of confidence.
Last night's new calls were absorbed without trauma or difficulty. The last tip reviewing all of the calls to date was pretty smooth, all thing considered.
No club night this Thursday for Thanksgiving; I'm subbing for
justetthon with the Ettseteras next Monday.
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Date: 2007-11-20 05:51 pm (UTC)Left Allemande and RLG are non-calls to the C1 dancers...they rarely complete one successfully here. I don't know where that comes from, cause it sho wasn't from my teaching!
Last night, during the C1 hour, I had to restart sequences several times when I started a sequence with left allemande (to thar or alamo and the like). They didn't get that they had to do a REAL one!
After that, the only squares in Basic and Mainstream that seemed to crash had bidancual Adv and C1 dancers as angels.
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Date: 2007-11-20 06:01 pm (UTC)Good point. Most nights, we're really teaching two separate groups: the new Mainstream dancers who have no prior experience and experienced angels who are participating to learn the opposite role. As long as we have enough angels to distribute the learners of either group evenly among fully experienced dancers, I'm happy to have 'em all.