[Squaredancing] Whatever happened to being a polite dancer?

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At 9:18 AM -0700 8/8/06, Robert.Morris at uboc.com wrote:

> Richard brought up a good point. If you have people that cannot dance 128
> beats per minute what do you do as a caller.

There is no satisfactory solution a caller can implement.

> You have 1/2 of the floor that wants to go 128 beats per minute or faster
> and others that cannot go that speed because father time was not nice to
> them.
> Do you slow the dance down so that the slowest dancer can dance? Or do you
> only use 48 beat figures so that they can keep up?

The caller needs to speak to club leadership and ask them to arrange for
the slow crowd and the fast crowd to dance in separate tips, whether that
is on the same night or otherwise.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen