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<p>Oddly enough, I was just in Seattle at the end of February and
had a conversation about this with Lindsey Dono, who told me to my
surprise that dancers at Lake City, at least, will complain about
getting the same dance two weeks in a row, and said that there
*was* a log kept of dances called locally.</p>
<p>So, Amy, I suggest checking with Lindsey and see if the effort is
already under way.</p>
<p>In the SF Bay Area, I think our dance populations kinda slop
around, so that while a core of people may go to the central Bay
Area dances (SF, Berkeley, Palo Alto), East Bay people may also go
to North Bay dances (San Rafael, Petaluma) and North Bay people
may go to Berkeley or SF but not usually Palo Alto, while Monterey
Bay people (Monterey, Santa Cruz) go to those dances and some come
up to Palo Alto, and some South Bay people (Palo Alto, San Jose,
etc) go to Santa Cruz or Monterey. The result is that every
dancer does the dances that are called at the dances they happen
to go to, it would be a huge coordinating effort to keep all the
dances at different dance series with somewhat-overlapping
attendance separate, and nobody but callers seems to care anyway.
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<p>For me personally, different band, different tune set pretty much
equals different dance even with the same figures - but also
dances that are 3/4 the same figures as other dances feel like the
same dances anyway.</p>
<p>-- Alan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2018 6:07 PM, Amy Wimmer via
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<div dir="auto">Huh! I never thought of that for the dance we run.
I keep a file of each gig and the dances I called at each. I
also write on each dance card the date and location of each time
I've called it, so I don't repeat myself too often.
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<div dir="auto">There's a record of contra dances called at
Northwest Folklife Festival. I don't know how far back it
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<div dir="auto">I'll talk to my fellow organizers about starting
this at Emerald City Contra Dance.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 5:42 PM Kalia Kliban via
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dance logs,
a cumulative record for a series of which dances have been<br>
called on any given evening, are very common in the English
dance<br>
community but vanishingly rare in the contra community. Why
is that?<br>
They're really helpful for incoming callers, and it's probably
nice for<br>
the dancers not to keep getting the same dances week after
week.<br>
<br>
I've only ever known of one contra series that kept a log, and
it's<br>
probably because I suggested it when they started out (the
Queer Contra<br>
series in Oakland, CA). Are there any contra organizers out
there who<br>
maintain a dance log? Those of you who do, how do you get the
dance<br>
lists from the callers? The Oakland series had a little book
on the<br>
stage and the callers would write their programs down as they
went or at<br>
the end of the night.<br>
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Part of it comes down to record-keeping on the part of the
callers. I<br>
keep a personal log of all the dances I've called so I can
avoid<br>
repeating myself when I return to a given venue. That makes
it easy for<br>
me to produce a set list after the fact if an organizer wants
to fill in<br>
a gap in the log. Fellow contra callers, do you all keep
records of<br>
what you call, and if you don't, how do you avoid repeating
yourself or<br>
remember what worked well (or not) the last time you called at
a<br>
particular place?<br>
<br>
If you work with something like Caller's Companion, do you
update the<br>
program list with what you actually danced as opposed to what
you<br>
programmed?<br>
<br>
Just curious about other people's process on this.<br>
<br>
Kalia in Sebastopol, CA<br>
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