[Callers] Calling to a square dance crowd

[Joe Micheals via Callers]

I have often thought that contra and round dancing had in common a person who cues/prompts ahead of the phrase of music.  MWS dancers who Round dancer would be able to relate to that...
On Feb 22, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Aahz Maruch via Callers wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, Jerome Grisanti via Callers wrote:
>> 
>> One other thing you might encounter is different interpretations of
>> language and timing. So for example I've seen MWSD groups perform a
>> "do-si-do" as a four-count swing rather than an 8-count back-to-back. And
>> I've seen chains take six counts, with the other two counts spent wondering
>> why the caller hasn't prompted the next move already.
> 
> These are *not* standard MWSD timings.  In fact, the official timing for
> dosado is six beats (eight from static square), and I got into an
> argument with an MWSD caller a few years back when he claimed that it
> was, is, and always shall be eight and only eight beats for dosado.  Then
> he was flummoxed when I pulled out my smartphone and showed him that
> CALLERLAB disagreed with him.
> 
> (Some of y'all might guess exactly which caller I'm referring to by the
> way I'm phrasing this. ;-)
> 
> Similarly, I've seen instructors at caller schools beating on callers who
> fail to properly give the dancers enough time for "up to the middle and
> back".
> 
> OTOH, it's sadly true that (as other posts in this thread have noted)
> square dancers and callers mostly don't pay much attention to phrasing.
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