From: Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 10:30 PM
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Bridgerton wedding dance/experience with using non-contra or non-ECD music to modified ECD/ceilidh dances
Hi all,
I’ve been asked to call a Bridgerton-themed wedding dance. Part of what makes the Bridgerton theme is the music… So I’m wondering if anyone has experience (of either the successful or unsuccessful variety)
of calling dances to music that isn’t our normal dance tempo (these sound a little faster than normal contra tempo) and aren’t in our standard AABB pattern. Some of the music examples I'm trying to work with are below (I’ll be using recorded music)
The event is normal wedding fare- not experienced dancers. Which will either mean everything falls apart or they won’t mind the dance being sloppy because they’re just so excited by dancing and the cool music.
The dances I’m planning to use are very basic (Galopede, LaBastringue, a scatter mixer, some version of duke of Kents waltz etc.)
So if you have related experience: Have people been into the music so much they don’t mind that they’re finding it hard to dance with the phrase and remember the dance? Are you able to keep them together
just by your calling? Do they kind of figure it out? Other ideas?
This is about 120 BPM. It has 16 beat parts that might be able to go A A’ B B’ or some way to make it work