Yeah, and the squeals of pain from the dance floor kinda helped. :-)
Opportunity for recovery could be either a pause for the dancers to figure out the formation, or some unmistakable call which the dancers would recognize immediately (eg. "lines into the middle & back") or even a simple hint like "I'd vote for two lines of four" or "Right-handed ocean waves would probably be a good thing right about now."
Personally, I'd have saved the potentially challenging novelty figures for the middle or latter half of the dance evening after everyone has warmed up rather than as an opener, but that's just me. :-^
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Date: 2005-12-30 03:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, and the squeals of pain from the dance floor kinda helped. :-)
Opportunity for recovery could be either a pause for the dancers to figure out the formation, or some unmistakable call which the dancers would recognize immediately (eg. "lines into the middle & back") or even a simple hint like "I'd vote for two lines of four" or "Right-handed ocean waves would probably be a good thing right about now."
Personally, I'd have saved the potentially challenging novelty figures for the middle or latter half of the dance evening after everyone has warmed up rather than as an opener, but that's just me. :-^