Divide The Ocean <anything>:
> Do you have a view on how the Anything is supposed to work?
> I have in mind that SD has the resulting End dancers sort of work disconnected,
> e.g. Divide the Ocean Mini Chase (which gives a different end result to
> Divide the Ocean Concentric Mini Chase). In reality, it's not much of an issue
> as far as I'm concerned because choreographically it's not very elegant
> (for timing and other reasons) to have End dancers doing calls which transfer
> at least one of them from one side of the set to the other. However, it would be
> good to have a definition that eliminates any uncertainty.
I believe SD is wrong. The 'concept' to use for those doing the 'anything' call
is neither Disconnected nor Concentric. The 'concept' is Outsides.
It's as if you didn't give an anything call, then told the outsides to do something.
That is, Divide The Ocean <anything> is a Divide The Ocean <nothing> followed by Outsides <anything>.
E.g., I believe you must explicitly say things such as:
a) Divide The Sea Concentric Mini-Chase
or
b) Divide The Sea Disconnected (Box) Mini-Chase.
It is not automatic.
The reason we (as callers) get away with 4-dancer calls (e.g., Single Cross & Wheel)
is that even though the call is a 4-dancer call, it's really a 2-dancer call with
a reference point.
