Nice! I called King's Quadrille for a group of Modern Western Square Dancers tonight (after explaining how the timing worked), and they loved it!

Thanks for sharing!

Jimmy Akin
San Diego


On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:41 AM Rich Sbardella via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Amy,

My interpretation is that a quadrille is a square prompted in the New England tradition.

In the modern western tradition few callers use this method, but I was taught by New England caller Dick Leggier who composed many promoted 'quadrille" figures to use in the MWSD environment.  This is still my method of calling squares in the club scene.

I am not sure why I understand it that way.  Word of mouth is a contributor, but also older publications like Sets in Order often referred to many of these simple 64 step dances as quadrilles.  

Here's one Jerry Helt called by from Tony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9d46BSqRLI

Rich
Rich

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:26 PM Amy Cann via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
What do you think of as a quadrille, tune and/or dance?

I'm very curious to hear as many different answers as there are
ages/locations/opinions on here. :)

(Tell you why *after* we have a nice long thread. :)

Cheers,
Amy
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