Hi all,
Despite having an extensive collection of music I have nothing
suitable for a 40 bar contra dance.
Please can anyone recommend any good recordings of 40 bars and
7 to 11 times through? Preferably they should be downloadable individually.
Thanks.
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
940 574
http://contrafusion.co.uk/KentCeilidhs.html for Live Music Ceilidhs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive DVDs
Hello, not sure about this message because the last callers shared weight
email I got seemed buggy....
I am on the search for *choreographers* who are a minority. Ethnic or
racial minorities, LGBTQ+, women, non-binary and transgender people, or
anything else you can think of as a minority. Looking through the
choreographer list on ContraDB, it's easy to pick out feminine names, but
it's hard to determine much else from most names. I'd love to collect more
dances written by these people. Help?
Liz Burkhart
I just had an English dance arrive in my head during a nap and would
love to call it New Year's Dream. Has that name already been used for a
dance that you know of? It doesn't show up in the Caller's Box
database, which is a good start...
Kalia from Sebastopol
Hi all,
I have finally finished working through the magazines and
publishing the dances on the Internet, with the kind permission of the
EFDSS. The dances cover all the different genres on both sides of the
Atlantic over the last 370 years.
There are now over 150 dances from the magazines at
http://contrafusion.co.uk/DancesEDS.html together with some interesting
articles (indexed on that page):
Dances Mentioned By Thomas Hardy in Under the Greenwood Tree.
Dancing Sidmouth Review of Sidmouth 1955.
The "Drops and Raises" in Folk Music by Peter Kennedy in 1949.
Films from the Past Video of Cecil Sharp dancing circa 1912, plus lots
of background information on the creation of the video.
Jubilee Dance Competition in 1961.
Meeting Country Dances by Roy Dommett in 1982.
Ralph Page.
Some Dorset Reel-Steps.
The Traditional Social Dance in Northumberland by Grahame Binless and
Mike Robson in 1970.
Village Dance in Cumberland in 1939.
What do we know about our Dances by J.F. and T.M. Flett in 1966.
What Makes a Good Dance? by Colin Hume plus the 1986 Dance Search
Competition.
Whose Version is That? Part I Colin Hume looks at the problems of
interpreting Playford Dances from the original books.
Whose Version is That? Part II Colin Hume looks at the problems of
interpreting Playford Dances from the original books.
The magazines are:
E.F.D.S News 1921 to 1936
English Dance & Song 1936 to 1989
I am missing about 10 magazines; I will be going to the
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House to work on those when
I get time.
Thanks to all those who have already contributed with advice,
information and corrections. Please let me know if you can add anything to
any of these pages.
Happy New Year!
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
940 574
http://contrafusion.co.uk/KentCeilidhs.html for Live Music Ceilidhs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive DVDs
There are still tickets available for my New Year's Eve Dance in Letchworth, Herts.
The programme will include English, Contra, Squares and Scottish.
Full details at http://colinhume.com/NYE
Colin Hume
Thanks for reminding me that I’ve intended to thank them, too. Its such a
great resource. Hats off to Chris and Michael!
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:42 PM Kalia Kliban via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I've been making heavy use of the Caller's Box site lately, but it took
> me a while to realize how handy and extensive the video links are. Not
> all, but most, of the dances I've been looking at have video links, and
> it's very rare that I can find those videos any other way (I've tried,
> just out of curiosity). My gratitude to Chris and Michael for putting
> that site together continues to grow!
>
> Kalia
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I've been making heavy use of the Caller's Box site lately, but it took
me a while to realize how handy and extensive the video links are. Not
all, but most, of the dances I've been looking at have video links, and
it's very rare that I can find those videos any other way (I've tried,
just out of curiosity). My gratitude to Chris and Michael for putting
that site together continues to grow!
Kalia
Good morning, Chris!
If you're on the archives page, it's the tiny link icon under the time
stamp on the right hand side, next to the A.
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Emily
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:08 PM Chris Page via Contra Callers <
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> I've been looking through the archives of the new list.
>
> There's a way to link to threads, by cut-and-pasting the url.
>
> Is there a way to either link to individual posts, or an anchor within a
> thread that will lead to a particular post?
>
> Hopeful,
> -Chris Page
> Los Angeles, CA
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\Bob
> On Dec 16, 2019, at 23:08, Chris Page via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> I've been looking through the archives of the new list.
>
> There's a way to link to threads, by cut-and-pasting the url.
>
> Is there a way to either link to individual posts, or an anchor within a thread that will lead to a particular post?
>
> Hopeful,
> -Chris Page
> Los Angeles, CA
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