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This might provide insight on how to teach....

by Michael Fuerst via Callers

.. dancers the repeating sequence of a contra dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABuKR0hUdu8 Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217-239-5844 _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

10 years, 11 months

New Dance

by Ben Werner via Callers

Hey All, I just wrote a new dance and wanted to see if the name, or the dance has been written before. The Erik Effect - Imp, Becket By Danielle Boudreau and Ben Werner - written for Erik Erhardt A1: (16) Yearn Left, give and take, ladies take gents, Neighbor Swing A2: (8) right and left through (8) Ladies chain B1: (16) full hey B2: (16) partner gypsy & Swing Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

11 years

Re: [Callers] Good ender

by Dereck Kalish via Callers

I'll second that, A1 Reel is a great ender dance and as you know I love calling it. Thank you Chris! -----Original Message----- From: "Chris Weiler (home) via Callers" <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> Sent: ‎6/‎3/‎2014 7:54 PM To: "Kalia Kliban" <kalia(a)sbcglobal.net> Cc: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Good ender You're very welcome. Chris > On Jun 3, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > If Chris Weiler, who wrote A1 Reel, is reading this, I'd like to thank you for a really good ender dance. _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

11 years

Good ender

by Kalia Kliban via Callers

If Chris Weiler, who wrote A1 Reel, is reading this, I'd like to thank you for a really good ender dance. It's a simple, low-piece count Becket that ends with a partner balance and swing. It gets the caller out of the way in a hurry and lets the dancers and the band have a great time at the end of the program. Here's a link to Chris's website, for those who'd like to find the notes: http://caller.chrisweiler.ws/dances.htm Kalia _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

11 years

Yet more unknown dances!

by Maia McCormick via Callers

Hi all, Cleaning out my pile of notes on excellent and unknown dances again. If anyone knows names/authors for these, shout it out! Thanks so much! Cheers, Maia ----- *#1: *?????, imp. ("cool shadow dance") A1: new neighbor balance and swing A2: ladies bull by right to allemande partner L 3/4; shadow allemande 1 1/2 B1: in wavy lines w/ ladies facing out, balance, spin right to partner (like a half Rory O'Moore); partner swing B2: circle L 3; do-si-do neighbor 1 1/2 to the next *#2: *Becket – Left prog. Long lines F&B / Ladies chain (to Nbr) (Petronella) balance ring, spin to Right / Balance ring, spin to Right [Square thru two]: Right hand balance w/partner, Pull by partner to face Nbr, Along set pull by Nbr to face next neighbor Swing new neighbor Circle Left ¾ / Partners Swing *#3: *Imp. A1: long lines Gents alle L 1 ½ to short waves (partner in R) A2: balance, partner alle R ¾ to long waves Balance and circulate B1: balance and circulate Balance and partner cross to swing B2: circle L ¾ Pass thru and swing next (Greenfield, Halloween Extravadance 2013) *#4: *???, becket A1: long lines Circle L ¾ A2: N swing Next N swing B1: Prom across and face R Ladies R 1 ½ B2: shadow swing Partner swing (NEFFA ’14) *#5: *???, becket A1: yearn L Gents chain A2: bal ring, roll P away N swing B1: R/L thru Ladies chain B2: bal ring, roll N away P swing (NEFFA ’14) *#6: *???, imp A1: star R star L A2: P courtesy turn and ladies cross Swing N B1: gents by R(?) P swing B2: long lines (and gent roll lady) Pass thru, turn R, prom single file to next (NEFFA ’14) *#7: *???, imp. A1: N b&s Pass ocean and balance A2: N R ½, gents pull by L, P R ¾ B1: Shadow alle L 1x P swing B2: pass ocean, bal P R ½, gents pull by, N R ¾ to next N (NEFFA ’14) *#8: *a frustrating fragment--loved this dance, but have no idea what the rest of the choreography is!! mad robin gents in front à gents cross for long waves balance and circ. Balance and circ P swing (NEFFA ’14, Saturday) _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

11 years

Contra choreography survey

by Jennifer Shafer

Greetings-- First, thank you to everyone who has responded to my initial message and has taken the survey. I have already received a good number of responses, and my advising professor and my colleagues are impressed by the number of responses I have received--a testimony to the spirit of the contra community. I would like to re-post the link to the survey on contra choreographies (see original message below), to allow anyone who hasn't had a chance yet to take the survey. I will be closing the survey soon, and want to make sure that I am collecting responses from as many respondents as I possibly can. Again, thank you for your indulgence in allowing me to re-post this, and for your participation--I sincerely appreciate your time! Jennifer Shafer I am a Ph.D. student in music at Ohio State University, and I am developing a research project to investigate some aspects of contra dance choreography. To continue in this project I am asking for your participation in a survey. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. It does ask that you recall names of dance choreographies that you have danced, and I recognize that this may make it more difficult for some of us (myself included) to fill out such a survey. However, I know that callers are more likely to be able to recall names of dances, which is why I have chosen to distribute the survey primarily to callers. Here is the link to the survey: https://casosu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8e5SQGiwCL3MmiN

11 years

Why is teaching a repeating 30-32 second sequences of relatively simple dance moves so complicated?

by Michael Fuerst via Callers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWK5bzWkiuE Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217-239-5844 Links to photos of many of my drawings and paintings are at www.ArtComesFuerst.com _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net

11 years

Mailing list issues

by Seth Seeger

Dear calling community, Many of you received a "you've been unsubscribed" email this morning! I'm terribly sorry about that. Yahoo/Comcast/Hotmail recently turned on some very strong spam filtering which broke nearly every mailing list on the internet. It finally affected us today. I have quickly moved the site to an updated version of Mailman (the software that runs this list) which has some options to deal with this. Primarily, the "From" address is now the list address. The Reply-To address should be the original sender. We'll see how this goes. If you received that email, you can ignore it. I have re-subscribed you. If you did not get a bounce noticed, then you have nothing to worry about. Note that if you used to get digest messages, you are now getting regular emails. I have not carried that setting over from the old server yet. Please hang in there with us as we figure this out and get it all working again. Thanks, Seth & Chris

11 years

End effects

by Colin Hume

I think my "End effects" workshop at Chippenham Folk Festival went well. People seemed to enjoy it; two people came up to me and said it was very useful and one wanted a copy of the notes - which are at http://www.colinhume.com/dtendeffects.htm I've updated this based on the feedback from the list, and at the end you can see which dances I actually called. The one which caused the most chaos was "Where's Alex?" by Michael Fuerst. The next day Geoff Cubitt also called it; I don't think he had any more success than I did! Colin Hume

11 years

Dance Gypsy's Honeymoon

by Roger Hayes

Called this last Tuesday, to a mixed crowd. Good dance, the dancers liked it (once I started calling it correctly :-( ). Might not even want to mention the short wavy line when teaching the pass-the-ocean, as it's not a balance point -- might want to emphasize the roundness and swing-through-i-ness of the allemandes. But that's a pet peeve of mine, as I prefer a nice round weighty half-allemande rather than a limp wish-you-weren't-here hand touch while brushing shoulders. But now let me tell you how I really feel about that... - Roger Hayes Madison WI On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:00 AM, <callers-request(a)sharedweight.net> wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:04:53 -0400 (EDT) > From: Donna Hunt <dhuntdancer(a)aol.com> > To: callers(a)sharedweight.net > Subject: Re: [Callers] choreography > Message-ID: <8D144A71A7B9386-18E4-F546(a)webmail-va057.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > that is correct it's a pass the ocean + swing thru. > You don't actually stop in the wave. > > Pass the ocean; Gents cross to opposite side and Ladies take left and turn > 1/4 , > Swing through; all turn your neighbor by the right 1/2 and then the gents > pull by the left. (Ladies stay where they are on the side of the set and > then their partners pull by left to meet them) > > > hope that's clearer. > > Donna > >

11 years

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