Yeah, goes without saying this is something we could share more often - how to be conscious of space and how to accommodate dancing with talls and smalls, and different diameters.  Elbows, feet, knees, heads can be a scary thing when gone wild or unnoticed.

Laurie

--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Richard Hart <rich at harts.mv.com> wrote:

From: Richard Hart <rich at harts.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Recognizing you next neighbor..
To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers at sharedweight.net>
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 10:51 AM

And if you are in a reminding mode, it might be a good idea to remind dancers that their next neighbor might also be just knee high. When my daughters were 6 years old, they sometimes needed to kick their next neighbor in the shins to get them to look down. Both old and new dancers have been guilty of this.. The size, shape, and gender of dancers can vary a lot, although species seldom changes... ;-)

Greg McKenzie remarked on 9/12/2009 9:41 AM:
> 
> At 08:12 AM 9/11/2009, Martha Edwards wrote:
>> 1. Dancers might benefit from a mention in the beginner workshops that they
>> should not be too surprised if the person they are to do a move with is of
>> the unexpected gender, that it's just done for fun and is okay. Forewarned
>> is forearmed. New dancers might think we're strange, but they won't have to
>> panic and think they've done something wrong. Maybe they'll even laugh as
>> they get the joke.
> 
> Good idea.  But you might consider mentioning this to the entire hall, rather than only to newcomers.  It reminds folks that newcomers are in the room and alerts everyone.
> 

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