<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Southern Missouri squares are often blazing fast, largely dictated by the clogging style</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">dancing used...the feet aren't going fare, but they are definitely going fast. Here is a clip from an Ava, Mo. dance:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/f_fymnXgXow">https://youtu.be/f_fymnXgXow</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bob Green<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:11 PM Nick Cuccia via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 9/21/19 10:50 AM, Colin Hume via Callers wrote:<br>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:36:37 -0400, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote:<br>
>> Tempo for contra is often below 120 bpm.� I learned to call squares at about 128 bpm.<br>
>><br>
>> Is this significant difference the norm, and if so why?<br>
> If you're talking about unphrased squares (Southern or MWSD) maybe people can cope with a faster tempo because the caller waits <br>
> until they've finished a move, whereas a contra is supposed to be fitted to the music.<br>
><br>
In my area (California's San Joaquin Valley, between Stockton and<br>
Fresno), most MWSD folk would consider 127 BPM or faster to be "fast". <br>
123 BPM is a more typical tempo here, and for some of the older dancers,<br>
that's a bit fast. And as Colin alluded, MWSD callers will wait for<br>
dancers to catch up more often than not. In fact, MWSD callers here<br>
teaching dancers how many beats they have to execute a given figure is<br>
almost nonexistent.<br>
<br>
--Nick<br>
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