{"items": [{"author": "Robert", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/117732328885787456164", "anchor": "gp-1345474600041", "service": "gp", "text": "Of course, when you say \"dancers will...\" you mean \"good dancers will...\" throughout. There are a surprising (to me) number of dancers who seem to be largely unaware of the phrase. (You think folks will be \nearly\n coming out of a star? Not my experience, generally.)", "timestamp": 1345474600}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1345483704247", "service": "gp", "text": "@Robert\n\u00a0I'm using \"dancers\" the same way a linguist might use \"English speakers\". \u00a0So I'm not talking here about people who are still new to it, or who never learned it well.\n
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\nAs for whether they'd be early in this example dance, I think they would be, because the star is only 3/4, but I'm not very confident in that. \u00a0I'd need to see what happened with real dancers and not the simulated ones in my head.", "timestamp": 1345483704}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/132967620181159?comment_id=133129696831618", "anchor": "fb-133129696831618", "service": "fb", "text": "The calling at the contra dance last Thursday was so inattentive that dancers fled from the stage-right set. It was the case in several dances that half a set or more was lost - bad form on the caller's part, in my opinion.", "timestamp": "1345507594"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/132967620181159?comment_id=133193070158614", "anchor": "fb-133193070158614", "service": "fb", "text": "Ah, that must be what you and Dan were discussing. I've been part of that behavior before, at an \"experienced\" [?] dance where the people in that set couldn't distinguish 'diagonal' from 'straight across.'", "timestamp": "1345521968"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/117346402173047680184", "anchor": "gp-1345556851322", "service": "gp", "text": "I've always assumed that 3/4 star would be 6 beats but we do it so infrequently, that I'm not sure I have evidence.\n
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\nOne piece of evidence that it's not like a circle where 3/4 can easily fill 8 beats is that people who are new will often go all the way in a star if it's called on time (evidenced by the fact that they're facing away from their next neighbor.)", "timestamp": 1345556851}]}