Some Comments About Monster A2

This CD is a complete dance consisting of challenging A2 all-position choreography called with energy at a snappy pace.

A New Approach to An Advanced Dance

While all of the material is taken from the Advanced, Plus, and Mainstream lists – and no higher level – most people will find the sequences to be quite challenging when compared to most Advanced dances. The reasons for this are:

• There are very few cues from the caller.

• The material is called at a snappy pace to provide a "wind-in-your-face" experience. (Many think a dance gains a certain energy when it’s called with few stops and pauses.)

• Extensive use is made of unusual positioning, and you’ll find that your understanding of many basic calls will be tested in many new and thrilling ways.

So, this dance isn’t "your father’s Advanced dance". This is a new, different, exciting experience.

It's a new approach to workshopping and a new dancing experience that might suggest a different approach to utilizing it in your workshop. Here are two ideas to consider:

• While the CD does not use any calls or concepts above the Advanced level, its degree of difficulty truly spans the Advanced through C3a levels. Many dancers who regularly dance the C1, C2, and C3a levels will find it interesting and challenging.

  So, if you’re an Advanced dancer with friends at these higher levels, you can invite them to workshop with you without feeling you’re imposing on them. Conversely, if you’re a challenge dancer with friends at the Advanced level, you can get together with them for an evening that will be enjoyable to all of you.

• You can also use it in your regular workshop to practice reaction time in addition to the interesting and challenging choreography. Dancers need practice on reaction time just as they need to be exposed to new and different calls and positioning. This CD provides an excellent opportunity.

  We suggest you devote a segment of your workshop to play this CD and suggest to your fellow workshoppers that they attempt to keep dancing and concentrate on their reaction time. Alert everyone before hand that you don’t intend to stop the CD as often as usual. You might want to try playing a couple of sequences without stopping, then resetting the CD and replay those same sequences, perhaps stirring the bucket in the process.

  Don’t let your workshop fall into the trap of stopping the CD so often. Someone once said, "Most workshops practice stopping, they don’t practice dancing". This CD can help you and your workshop avoid that trap, and it can be a very refreshing, educational experience as well.

Of course, how you use this CD is entirely up to you. We thought you might appreciate considering something new.

Feedback

We’d really like to hear from you. We need your input to guide us in producing future CD’s. Please feel free to contact us at CD Workshop at:

E-mail G2 Ideas about the Monster.