[Callers] Planning for Medleys

As you're thinking about dances for a medley, keep in mind that there will be no walk-through so you have to plan for the excellent words you will use (taking up no more than 8 beats of music) for the more complex calls. We shouldn't be late with a single call during a medley, since (IMHO) that takes all the fun out of dancing the medley.

there's an easy answer: call dances that you know inside out, forwards and backwards. The medley is not a time to show off fancy dances. All we need are good dances that flow. You can also practice by trying out your selected dances over the next couple of months. If appropriate for your dancers, try calling it no walk-through. If you can't do that, then try to use all the words you'd need during the first time or two through the dance. I'm not saying it's impossible to call hard dances, but iit takes a lot of preparation to be able to call dances with non-standard moves and we do the dancers a huge disservice if we screw up. So pick dances that you love and that you feel comfortable about calling, and then practice practice practice.