<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“Improper is tougher”<div class="">It certainly sounds like an opportunity for people to switch roles, and that it’s tougher suggests it’d be a new experience. If they’ve never done that before, even familiar and simple dances will seem new and newly challenging.</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Jerome Grisanti via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Jacqui,<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I have called proper longways dances (without diagonals or out-of-minor-set interactions) for two couples, switching active couples with every other iteration but maintaining the same orientation in the room. Works well with many English dances -- for example Softly Good Tummas -- because they are proper. Improper is tougher. The idea is similar to Dale's calling party orientation, but the mechanics are a bit different, and the one he describes is better for improper dances.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My group (Maryville MO) is accustomed to smaller attendance, and thus ready to switch to three-couple longways English when another couple shows up, then into old-time squares when a fourth couple shows up. A fifth couple or more puts us into longways duple minors. And always ready to mix it up with a circle mixer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Jerome</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Jerome Grisanti<br class="">660-528-0858<br class=""><a href="http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.jeromegrisanti.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px" class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</font></span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:09 PM, QuiAnn2 via Callers <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I recently called at a contra dance where we had exactly 6 dancers for almost the entire evening (one joined us later but only occasionally danced). This was unexpected as they usually have attendance in the 12-20 range. I was able to piece together a night of mixers, triplets, and oddball dances to make it work and the dancers were game for anything so it ended up being a fun night. But it got me thinking about what to do if only 4 dancers came to a dance (meaning even if I jumped in, we would only have 5 total dancers). In order to be better prepared for next time, I have a couple of questions.<br class="">
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1) Do you have any dances you can share that would work for 4 or 5 dancers? Or also dances for 6 dancers that are not triplets (have plenty of triplets). I have already collected Do-Si-3 and Haste to the Divorce, both of which I modified so that they would not progress.<br class="">
2) Could a whole evening (3 hours) of dance be put together for just 4-5 dancers?<br class="">
3) What preparation can be done by me in advance to help with this situation? It’s possible to talk with the organizer in advance about canceling the dance if only 4 or 5 dancers show up, however, this particular dance is a 75 minute drive one-way and I’d prefer to avoid the round trip if there won’t be enough dancers. For various reasons, any dance promoting that I do myself would be largely ineffective for this particular dance.<br class="">
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Would love to hear about any ideas you can share. Thanks!<br class="">
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Jacqui Grennan<br class="">
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