Teaching a Plus Workshop

[bjarvis]

Tomorrow morning, kent4str and I are conducting a two hour Plus workshop for the DC Lambda Squares. At last word, we had 21 people signed up.

I'm particularly interested in working the calls "peel the top" and "spin chain the gears": in our area, those seem to be the weakest and least-used calls. Various people have asked us to work "crossfire"; while they dance it adequately, they've felt a lack of full understanding of the call.

Beyond that, we're planning on calling through the entire Plus list to look for weak spots, doing a run-through of "coordinate" and "relay the deucey," testing them on lefty or sashayed versions of calls and trying spontaneous variants of known calls (eg. "spin chain & exchange the gears but turn the star only 1/4") as time allows. Of course, we'll happily take requests & suggestions from the floor.

Any other last-minute ideas?

Comments

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

Pass the Duchy on the Left Hand Side?

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Last night in our A2 class, we didn't learn any new calls because we found that many people could not do Plus calls such as Spin Chain the Gears, Peel the Top, Turn Through, Trade the Wave, All 8 Circulate, or Follow your Neighbor, or any kind of Diamond call (Circulate, Cut The, etc). It's very frustrating.

On the other hand, many callers tell dancers that when you start from x formation, you'll do this call and end up in a y formation. This goes over most new dancers' heads and isn't helpful when learning the call, although I like hearing it when we're workshopping.