Re: [Callers] Heys for new dancers

"Standard" and "Non-Standard" Heys - Ladies start, right shoulder, Hey - Ladies start, left shoulder, Hey - Gents start, right shoulder, Hey - Gents start, left shoulder, Hey - Ones start, right shoulder, Hey - Ones start, left shoulder, Hey - Twos start, right shoulder, Hey - Twos start, left shoulder, Hey I'm not sure which one is "standard." (And this doesn't even begin to discuss the different entry and exit variations for heys.) I don't teach any of them. One way of thinking about it is like a contra dance medley: You don't do a walk-through because you don't want the dancers to "learn" a specific dance before you change it. Maybe teaching a "standard" hey would be confusing for some dancers because the figure changes so often. I just call it using the appropriate word order above. - Greg McKenzie