15 May
2024
15 May
'24
3:03 p.m.
(Make that late aughts. I forgot my own age.)
On Wed, May 15, 2024, at 3:01 PM, Harris Lapiroff via Contra Callers wrote:
People who knew her better can say more than me, but
I'll just add that she taught me to call when I was a student at Oberlin College in
the early aughts, so she's really the one who started it all for me, for which I'm
very grateful.
Harris Lapiroff
Dance Caller and Organizer
Boston Intergenerational Dance Advocates Board (Cambridge MA)
Pinewoods Camp, Inc Board (Plymouth MA)
https://chromamine.com/contra/
On Wed, May 15, 2024, at 12:55 PM, Cindy Harris via Contra Callers wrote:
We knew Becky well here in Pittsburgh. She was
the heart and soul of the Cleveland contradance community and often came our way to call
dances in Pittsburgh. And as some have said, she was a lovely and gracious caller.
Do any of you remember the week when the World Trade Center was destroyed? I’m sure I’m
not the only one who remembers what happened in Pittsburgh a few days later. That Friday
there was a regularly scheduled dance in Pittsburgh, and Becky was the caller. As we lined
up for the first dance, Becky looked out at the floor and realized that we were all
experienced dancers, there to dance with our community after a rough week. So she put us
in Becket and started to teach a dance that was a bit more challenging than she would have
taught at a usual community dance. She was about two figures in when a group of 10 or so
newcomers who she did not recognize as regular dancers entered the hall. So she asked us
all to promise our partners that we would dance with them later, and to take one of the
new dancers as a partner. And, of course, we all did. We lined up again in duple improper,
and Becky taught a simple dance that she knew we could help inexperienced dancers through
even though there had been no lesson. So we all danced, and that’s how the rest of the
evening went.
It was a very sad thing when Becky developed dementia and stopped coming to call for us.
The Cleveland community can probably tell you more about that time, and since she traveled
so much I’m sure there are many other stories like ours out there.
Cindy
Director, Small Harmonies <http://bridgeofvoices.org/>
2023 International Autoharp Champion
Have you experienced GrayScale ContraBand <https://grayscalecontraband.com/>?
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On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 11:09 Emily Addison via Contra Callers
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Hi folks,
Over the past year, I'm realizing how many dances written by Becky Hill I absolutely
adore. So, naively, I wrote to Becky Hill (this one!
<https://www.rebeccahill.org/>) whom I admire thinking that it was her who wrote
dances. Turns out that flatfooter and old time square dance leader Becky Hill is not the
same Becky Hill who wrote the contras and square that I have in my dance box.
So... I naturally became curious ... who is the other Becky Hill???
And this is all I've been able to find
<https://www.heritagecremationsociety.com/obituaries/rebecca-ellen-becky-hill>.
Did any of you know Becky? Any further information on her?
I know that many of her dances are super popular and called by so many folk.
Thanks,
Emily Addison in Ottawa ON
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