7 Mar
2018
7 Mar
'18
3:13 p.m.
On Mar 6, 2018, at 11:23 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
On 3/6/2018 7:28 PM, Mac Mckeever via Callers wrote:
For our English dance in Jamaica Plain, the caller writes the dance name on a whiteboard
in front of the hall after each dance. At the end of the dance we transcribe it into
book, I take a photo of the board and enter it in a database at home - and then post on
our web page two lists, one sorted by night, and one sorted by dance name. (If I am not
there someone else sends me the info).I sometimes have to adjust the spellings - or deal
with the “the” in the name so the sorting by dance name is OK. This record goes back to
January 2010.
http://lcfd.org/bgfe/
This seems to me to be a lot of effort with very
little benefit. There are thousands of dances and each caller has their own approach to
programming. It is rare for a dance to be called two nights in a row. When I do see that
happening I often ask other dancers around me if they remember it - and no one ever has.
How would the next caller get access to this info? The logistics would seem difficult and
unnecessary.
The way our local English dances do this is that the series programmer sends the current
log to the next caller on deck, who can then consider the log or not, as they choose.
It's not a big deal. I run the Sebastopol dance, and I either write down the programs
myself if I'm at the dance or contact the caller afterward to get their list. Simple
Excel spreadsheet to keep track. Easy.
If I'm coming to call for a community I've never worked with before, seeing a
list of the dances they've done gives me a good idea of the general level of the
group. It's a useful tool.
Kalia in Sebastopol