[Callers] Dare to Be Square Archive

Greetings, Bob Dalsemer recommended I contact you about a dance archive from last year's Dare to Be Square, held here in Seattle. He thought your members might be interested in this material; I hope so! What follows is the note I sent out to DTBS attendees last April. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Tony Mates Hi Everybody, The Dare to be Square 2009 Archive is on the air! Go to http://vimeo.com/ and find the search box, click on "channels" and enter "dtbs". Have a look around. To keep this material from going viral, we ask that you exercise respect and discretion about what you do with it. Since it was the staff and attendees of DTBS 09 who made these videos happen, we'd like to keep it in the family, so to speak. If you know a caller who might benefit from seeing this, fine, but please ask that she or he also respect DTBS and the folks who made it possible. For a guided tour read on. My goal was to capture the essence of what Bob Dalsemer brought to his workshops at Dare to Be Square this year, and then make it available to all who participated. A dedicated crew of volunteers and I filled 5 one hour tapes with video. We attempted to get Bob's teaching of each particular dance, both from the stage and any demonstrations on the floor. We also tried to get a representative sample of the dance being done to the music. As it happens I wish we had covered more material, but then, given the work involved in editing 5 hrs of video and 7 of audio, maybe it was for the best. My apologies for the parts that were left out. In particular I'm sorry there was not more of the actual dancing. What we do have is selected video and complete audio from the following daytime workshops: Square Dancing For All West Virginia Squares New England and Singing Squares Cool Versions of Classic Squares Souped Up Squares Also there is some video and about an hour of audio from Timing ,Timing, Timing and about half an hour of the Monday night dance. I have also received some video from Cory Podielski and Doug Plummer, which will be added soon to supplement the archive. Navigation: You'll need a high speed internet connection. Go to: http://vimeo.com/ and look in the upper right hand corner for the white space that says "Search Videos". When you slide the cursor into that area a drop down menu opens; click on "Search Channels". Enter dtbs into the search area. This should bring up "DTBS09 29 videos". Click on DTBS09 to bring up all the videos. Hit the "play" triangle at the lower left corner of the screen to begin viewing. Click on "description", below the screen, for notes on personnel, tune names etc. [Please note: these descriptions are a work in progress. More notes will be added in the next few weeks.] Each of the 29 videos has a title: DTBS 09 [Workshop Name] a number (1-6) and then the name of a dance figure. The number is to show the order of the episodes within each workshop. So for example "DTBS09 Square Dancing for All 1 Big Circle" shows material from the first dance of the workshop; "DTBS09 Square Dancing for All 2 Texas Star" is the next dance in that workshop, etc. This should help illustrate how each workshop unfolded. Downloads. You must join Vimeo to download these videos. After listening to my audio recordings of the workshops I realized that the video may have captured the main points of each dance, but failed sometimes to give a sense of the whole; particularly as Bob often adds twists- or even new figures- later on in the dance. The audio links below cover the entire workshops, with the exception of Timing! Timing! Timing! which I only got about an hour of. Square Dancing for All: http://tinyurl.com/yb86a5k West Virginia Squares: http://tinyurl.com/ydn9g9m New England and Singing Squares: http://tinyurl.com/y9njnhy Cool Versions of Classic Squares: http://tinyurl.com/ydzzywa Timing, Timing, Timing: http://tinyurl.com/yeqmwge Souped Up Squares: http://tinyurl.com/yjzju42 As I say, we did our best. Any faults in the execution or production of this material are solely mine. If you have questions I will try my best to help: write to Tony Mates at: mates.tony(a)gmail.com. Or give me a call! I'd rather chat. 206-723-3897. Credits: Billie Burlock, Tony Mates, Brittany Newell and Paul Silveria shot video on a camera kindly lent to us by Charlie Beck. Cheers to a very helpful crew! Audio and video editing by Tony Mates. A Noderinksere production. Expert help and counsel from Charmaine Slaven, Charlie Beck, Catherine Alexander, Gabe Strand, Doug Plummer and Johnny Calcagno. And of course many thanks to all of the performers, crew and dancers who made Dare to Be Square 09 happen. Having spent many hours now in front of a laptop watching many of you dance, or call, or play music, it is a pleasure to present this material for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Once more: To keep this material from going viral, we ask that you exercise respect and discretion about what you do with it. Since it was the staff and attendees of DTBS 09 who made these videos happen, we'd like to keep it in the family, so to speak. If you know a caller who might benefit from seeing this, fine, but please ask that he or she also respect DTBS and the folks who made it possible. Tony Mates, March, 2010 Heads Up! Feet Smack! Dare to Be Square is coming back! Nov 4-7, 2010 tony mates 206-723-3897 ckittyroo(a)aol.com