22 Sep
2019
22 Sep
'19
10:31 p.m.
While looking for more videos of contra dancing in Denmark, I instead came across a video
in which Danish caller Else Bach Nielsen calls a New-England-style square (coincidentally
written by Tom Hinds) to the music of visiting American band Phantom Power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJV6_2SWg0s (~116 BPM)
I don't know whether the caller set the tempo or left it the band.
--Jim
On Sep 22, 2019, at 6:55 PM, jim saxe <Jim.Saxe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I looked for videos of contra dancing in Denmark and found these three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhxwVuoI2g (119-120 BPM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4KB-uSWkKc (117-118 BPM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ALEBBtUbc (~113 BPM)
These all seem to be from the same event. It's possible that a wider sampling of
contra dances in Denmark (which may not be available Youtube) would support Tom's
recollection of faster tempos.
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