[Squaredancing] regarding classes

[Heinz D. Trost]

Larry et al,

I'm sorry, but there are a lot of plus graduated dancers who can't dance 
Mainstream without breaking the squares.

E.g. my first stay in the USA as a graduated mainstream dancer 
(graduated at July 1st, 1999, just to be permitted to attend the 3-day 
"Happy Birthday" special dance with Jerry Story, Tony Oxendine, Paul 
Bristow and Juergen Weresch  a weekend later)
at Dec. 27th I attendend a dance in Houston, TX. The caller was the 
famous Johnnie Wykoff. I introduced myself to Johnnie as a mainstream 
only dancer from Germany. And Johnnie agreed to make several tips in 
pure mainstream between the plus tips.

Then before one tip he gave me a sign and so I went on the floor into a 
square. Johnnie started the tip and it was real pure Mainstream, he just 
dissolved the plus calls in mainstream and I had absolutely no problems 
to dance it without any mistakes. And the square I was in also had no 
problems, too.
But most of the other 15 or so squares had big problems and/or broke. 
And so after this tip Johnnie told me: "Sorry Heinz, but my dancers 
can't dance Mainstream!" and the following tips were the regular soft 
plus they were used to dance in that area,- and I stayed out.

So there are plus dancers who can't dance regular Mainstream without 
mistakes.

Heinz



ljknews schrieb:
> At 11:02 AM -0700 10/26/08, martin wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone any experience with a class that qualifies as 'mainstream  
>> for plus dancers'? If so, what was the response, and would it be  
>> worthwhile to repeat ?  If not, do you have any thoughts re the value  
>> of a class with that purpose ?
>>     
>
> I don't understand the purpose.  No caller around here can
> call Plus without using Mainstream calls.  Once the dancers
> are in a column, of course, the caller can alternate between
> Coordinate and Crossfire ad nauseum, but that is really what
> it would be - ad nauseum.
>