[Callers] Box - Swat - CA - Jersey/Nevada

Kalia Kliban via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Jun 15 16:13:15 PDT 2015


On 6/14/2015 9:48 AM, Richard Hart via Callers wrote:
> I've considered writing an entirely hands free dance, as an example,
> along with a very similar dance that used hands for the corresponding
> moves. The hands free dance would certainly need to used only at an
> expert-only dance.

I'm a caller married to a dance musician.  As a result I almost never 
get to dance with my husband.  A few years back, he was the high bidder 
in a camp auction where Alan Winston was offering to write a dance to 
the winner's specs. Jon asked him for a dance with no hand contact so 
that he and I could dance together while he played the tune.  It's an 
English dance in waltz time, and it's quite lovely.  At a recent 
Pasadena ECD ball Jon and I took advantage of wireless mic technology to 
call and play it from the floor as we danced together.  It's called The 
Fiddler's Wife.  I wouldn't spring it on brand-new dancers, but it's 
fine for an intermediate crowd.

And at the other end of the spectrum, I wrote another 3/4 ECD for some 
longtime members of our local Sebastopol dance, one of whom was starting 
to need a little more help on the floor (she had some balance and 
mobility issues).  For them, I wrote a dance where you only let go of 
your partner for 2 bars during the whole sequence.  It's a great one for 
new dancers.

Kalia


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