Re: [Callers] Callers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 2

Send Callers mailing list submissions to callers(a)sharedweight.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to callers-request(a)sharedweight.net You can reach the person managing the list at callers-owner(a)sharedweight.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wedding dances (Amy Cann) 2. Re: Wedding dances (Luke Donev) 3. Re: Wedding dances (Michael Barraclough) 4. Waltz? (David Millstone) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:17:40 -0400 From: "Amy Cann" <ACann(a)putneyschool.org> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Wedding dances Message-ID: <fc.0118c72d009deac53b9aca00173a5480.9dead5(a)putneyschool.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 OK, I just have to chime in (haven't posted here in AGES) I'm getting married next week, and I have NO IDEA what the caller is going to call. That's HIS job. I hired David Millstone and told him to do what will make the most people happy and comfortable. It's probably going to turn out to be the smartest bit of non-micromanaging I will ever do in my LIFE. Of course, I'm obsessing about everything ELSE... PS if you know me and have known about this wedding for ages and think you should be at this wedding and haven't gotten an official pretty paper invitation, it's because we used up all of the snailmail ones on the kind of relatives you have to invite even though you know they're not going to come anyway. My dance friends are all going to have to make do with a scanned-in pdf of the invite card and a link to the website. Watch your inbox for an email in the next 12 hours, and if something STILL doesn't show up it's because I'm an idiot. ( I SO identify with Sleeping Beauty's mother, who forgot to invite one of the fairies to the christening and ended up getting her daughter cursed.) Hell, I almost left Bob McQUILLAN off the list! Email me if you wanna come and I'll get you the details. Dave Bateman, are you out here? I don't have a good address for you anymore, your invite bounced. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:55:18 -0400 From: Luke Donev <luke.donev(a)gmail.com> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Wedding dances Message-ID: <243d1eda0908011855s6300fb35w6c2e753f9199d652(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello all, Thanks for the wonderful feedback, both on and off list. Very helpful and informative. The wedding and reception went very well. I forgot one of the cardinal rules of weddings, which is that they always run late. I didn't do nearly as many contras as I'd originally blocked out, and ended up with just three. I left them all Becket dances (since the last one had to be), and had a simpler first contra without a 1s and 2s distinction, and where it didn't matter what how you ended the swing Pluck It (easy Becket) A1: C L, C R A2: S R, S L B1: P DSD, P swg B2: N DSD, LL yearn left The new dancers seemed very comfortable with slide left type transitions for dances, and not having to cross over at the ends simplified things as well. The other simple dance went over well. Easy for new folks as it's the same set of moves twice. I collected it recently at Falcon Ridge, but I don't know the name or author. Any help? Becket A1 : C L 3/4, N DSD A2: N Bal & Swg B1: C L 3/4, P DSD B2: P Bal & Swg slide on to next couple By the final contra (Star Trek), we still had a fair number of new folks, and they gamely tried the hay, and by and large they did alright with it. The "find your partner and swing them" end of it helped a lot. Thanks again for the feedback and pointers.