Re: [Callers] Unruly Reunion/Monterey Detour

Hi Luke, It is years since I have done any science but I remember tree diagrams like you are referring to that grouped things by degrees of similarity. What I remember is that it was possible to do so without specifying grouping criteria in advance. It was a challenge to determine what these axes meant however. The idea that this could become the basis for classifying or grouping dances could certainely be an interesting aid to programing. I no longer remember how to do this or have software that would work under modern operating systems. Do you? Rickey -----Original Message----- From: callers-bounces(a)sharedweight.net [mailto:callers-bounces@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Luke Donforth Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 8:33 AM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] Unruly Reunion/Monterey Detour Old Time Elixer #2 by Linda Leslie and Tica Tica Timing by Dean Snipes are darn close, the difference being a right and left through versus a promenade across. (They're both fabulously fun petronella dances). As for choreographers slipping up and writing their own dance twice, it wouldn't surprise me, but it also may be that they changed the name when they found something that suited better. I personally find naming dances harder than writing them. I know I've re-created dances that already existed; although it can be hard to say if I'm writing them myself, or pulling them out of my dance memory, It'd be fun to see a cladistic taxonomy of contra dances (and related forms), showing the similarities and differences; be they regional, composer, historic, or otherwise. I don't remember which caller, but someone broke contra dances in to primarily 1 swing and 2 swing dances (with some others), and then branches 2 swing dances into dances where the swings are in adjacent phrases (ex A2 & B1) or non-adjacent. That type of tree system could be the basis for basis for classifying dances and keeping track of how close your dances are to others (you'd still need a database of existing dances to compare to). On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Chris Page <chriscpage(a)gmail.com> wrote: date. -- Luke Donforth Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com> www.lukedonev.com _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers