I too enjoy Becket dances.  But when I think about the why of incorporating them in my planning a dance, its more about variety of flow, dance moves, and level of difficulty.  I personally find dancing a night with 6 balance  the waves or 4 Rory O'Moors, or worse,  the combination of them, very less enjoyable, regardless of the band, caller, or dance partner(s).  And  I try  to  remember this in planning a program for others.  Not all Beckets are "difficult" so I use the "easier" Beckets to vary programs when I'm working to enhance perspective and create variety and keep the more experienced engaged in a dance evening.   And I use  the the more difficult, or engaging, Beckets to challenge or enrich.

So I enjoy Beckets, and find that sometimes I  have to "hold back".  And I also agree with what Alan has said.

Laurie
West Michigan/ Grand Rapids

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <winston at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <winston at slac.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Beckets
To: gtwood at worldpath.net
Cc: callers at sharedweight.net
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6:40 PM

Gale wrote:

> Hay folks,
> Typically, how many Becket dances will you call in an
> evening?
> I seem to be on a Becket "kick" as of late, and don't wish
to
> over do it.

I don't think dancers particularly care about Becket vs improper per se.
They care (to some degree *) about the dances seeming too similar, but 
I think what gives that impression is largely transitions (do they all start
the same?  do they all end the same?), distinctive figures (do they all
have Rory O'Moore balance-in-lines in them?), to some degree mood (are they
*all* slinky?  are they *all* rowdy?), not whether you have them circle left 1
place after they take hands four.

If you aren't boring the dancers with sameness, I don't think you have
to worry about the actual numbers.

That said, I seem to call somewhere between 0 and 4 out of 10.

-- Alan




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