[Callers] Our House

At Contra Dancers Delight Holiday this year, Dean asked Robert Cromartie to call Our House and my husband Dave to video tape it so Dean would have a video of the dance being danced. Robert had never called it before and in our callers workshop we "practiced" with him for calling it later that night. Some people were concerned about the flow of the star into a Gypsy meltdown. It "feels" like it would be a left shoulder gypsy, which of course won't 'melt' into a swing. So we also discussed changing it to Balance and swing. In the end, we stuck with Dean's original and I think it went fine, but I just wanted to toss it out that there are those who "prefer" the balance. Sort of like Delphiniums and Daisies - most people call that one with a Partner B&S but it was written without the balance. So the "folk process" may be tweeking Dean's dance a bit. -- JoLaine Jones-Pokorney "We are as gods and might as well get good at it!" - Stewart Brand