“You have to study the hands,” Earl said to me, continuing our square dance discussion. “My partner puts her hands where they’re supposed to be so I can grab them. “ The look on my face must have revealed my confusion.
“Hands? Aren’t you trying to learn the steps themselves?” I asked. He shook his head.
“I know some of them, like grand right and left or star thru, but it’s easier when my partner puts her hands in the right place. So you have to study the hands for when we dance together. You’ll have to know where to put them.”
Hmmm. This is a new approach.
I will say my own experienced partner also puts his hands in the right positions to guide me. And I’ve been aware of how helpful that is. But am I looking for his hands so that I don’t have to remember the steps in the move? I don’t think so. I’m busy memorizing my part.
Evidently my real partner works by another method. I’ll have to figure out how to handle this, and probably telling him HE needs to know where to put his hands isn’t the final answer.
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