RHY.Preface:5.1 - An ornament interrupts a partnered figure

A pair can perform a familiar passage. Adding a foot ornament leaves the recorded contacts on the count, but the partner loses the next transition. Under RHY.1 they compare the familiar and ornamented attempts rather than start by demanding more accurate counting. They find that the ornament interrupts the continuing movement which made the transition readable.

RHY.2 keeps contact, continuing movement and partner-read timing distinct. RHY.3 suggests preserving the continuing contribution while changing the articulation. RHY.4 checks the timing of the cue the partner actually uses. The pair chooses a smaller ornament through RHY.8 and arranges its cue through RHY.9; RHY.10/.11 coordinate the shared reference and the concurrent contributions.

In the stipulated next attempt, the partner can use the transition. That supports this variant at the tried pace and with this pair. It supplies no answer about a faster pace or another partner. RHY.13 is needed only if such a changed-condition answer matters.

Now suppose a related rotating figure still fails. The dancer has enough strength to support the body and remembers the figure, but cannot maintain balance during the turn. At that moment, balancing constitutes part of turning, and turning constitutes part of performing the figure with a partner. These are connected works at several levels, not successive tasks or extra rhythmic lines. Reducing the turn permits an exercise; its success does not establish the original figure. RHY.12 returns the balancing contribution to appropriate technique instruction, then restores it to the turn and figure. The already usable ornamented passage remains available.