Hi Judy

I called a couple of contras at a square dance festival here in Australia, and found that I needed to keep calling all the way through, as they were used to calls being varied through the dance, so would stop dancing if I faded out the calling. This may not be common to all codes of square dancing.

cheers

Jeanette

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Canberra, Australia

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On Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 12:28, Judy Greenhill via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have undertaken to teach some modern square dancers how to contra dance, and I’m wondering if anyone has experience with this and has any dances to recommend? I’m a square dancer myself but most of my contra repertoire is for modern contra dancers- 2 swings, lots of Balance and swing, etc. I’d like more dances with MWSD moves in them and possibly without any, or only 1, swing, and they don’t need to have a partner swing. The dancers I am teaching are all either plus or advanced, so they will tire pretty quickly of the usual simple glossary contras I would normally do in a teaching situation. They can do the moves; it’s the formation that is new to them.

Thanks,

Judy

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