[Callers] Publishing dances on the web

[Claire Takemori]

Hi Luke, 

Have you seen Chris Page’s website? I like that he states which he feels are tested, edited, and are tried and true. 
I love seeing new choreography but only want to collect things I’ve danced and know feel good, or dance that the choreographer or another caller can say that it works and dancers liked it. 

Maybe within those categories you listed, if you also assigned difficulty levels, that would be helpful. 

It would be great to know what uses the dances have proven best for?  

Looking forward to seeing what you create! 
Claire Takemori 
SF Bay Area 


Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 23:26:15 -0400
From: Luke Donforth <luke.donev at gmail.com <mailto:luke.donev at gmail.com>>
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Hi Folks,

I currently have a terrible system for publishing dances I've written on
the web (blog-esque thing in wordpress; really hard to search through).
There's been talk on and off of a big database of dances, but that doesn't
seem to be happening so I thought I should do something for mine.

I'm contemplating better ways of making dances my compositions more
accessible; and since that would be for other people, I'm curious what's
useful for other people.

I'm envisioning four categories of dances; and then just lists of dances
(title & sequence) on those pages. The categories I had in mind:
Family dances
Glossary contras
Unique contras
Odd formations

Are there separate things you'd want to see in a list of dances when you're
going through? Beckets, Closing dances, bouncy/smooth, etc.

I've gotten really attached to Callers Companion (
http://callerscompanion.com/ <http://callerscompanion.com/>), and really like how it lets searches happen
on dances. Anyone have a good way to incorporate that, or the type of
element checklist/flag it provides, into a web-based interface for dances?

It might also be that most folks don't collect dances from websites; and
this is wasted time. But it does seem like I've obfuscated finding my
compositions, and I regret not making them more available.

Thoughts, opinions, experience, and advice appreciated.

Thanks!

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Luke Donforth
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