21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
12:29 a.m.
Wow.
Thanks for these!
I have some questions about squares. Maybe you can help me.
Quick "square bio": I'm a long-time contra dancer, two-year club (Western)
square dancer. (My husband and I belong to our local gay square dance club.
They are tolerant, and kind enough to put up with us two straights.) I
started calling contras and English about three years ago.
I've been challenged to call a couple of squares at a contra dance in
August. "No New England Squares," they said. "They're too easy,
because
they're just contras in a different formation."
So how do you time your calls when you don't fit a dance to 64 counts? Do
most of the calls come on the "5,6,7,8" of the phrase like contra calls do
(for the most part)? If so, what do you do when part of the room isn't
ready? Wait for the next swan to go by? It all seems pretty mysterious to
me.
M
E
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Andy Shore <square.a.shore(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
For years I've had a set of 8 plastic engraved
"checkers" for working
out square dance choreography.
Now that I'm a contra caller too, I wanted more dancers to push
through dances, so I drew some up in Adobe Illustrator, printed them
on heavy card stock, got them laminated front & back at the local
office supply store, and cut them out.
The PDF file is available free at my web site http://andyshore.com/
Scroll down to 'Various Goodies / Contra Dance "Checkers"' where you
can see a thumbnail of what I'm talking about and download the file to
print.
I hope someone else finds these useful. Constructive suggestions for
improving them are welcome!
--
/Andy Shore
Fort Lauderdale, FL
http://andyshore.com/
best email - andyshore(a)gmail.com
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