[Callers] New contra dance database

[Don Veino]

Thanks for the resource! I've found it to be incredibly useful in answering
the "did someone already write this?" question, as well as tracking down
titles/authors for the dance snippets collected from others' calling.

-Don

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:37 PM Chris Page via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
>
> This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
> 5,000 dances with viewable instructions
> 4,000 more dances with links to instructions
>
> Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
> You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
> permission to show the figures.
>
>
> This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to
> use.
>
> Have fun!
>
> (and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
>
> -Chris Page and Michael Dyck
>
> p.s.
> This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
> started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
> building my database back in November of 2010.
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