23 Nov
2022
23 Nov
'22
4:05 p.m.
I second Lisa's idea, with the added note that such choreography will
likely face some resistance if it's not sold well. So I encourage fun and
creative choreography that will outweigh the perceived loss of value of
dances with fewer swings.
We might reinvigorate ideas from old square-dance figures (lady/lark around
two, gent, robin drop through) and from English dance (cast and lead, set
and turn single). Selling meaning to explore the fun and connective
elements in these figures, rather than seeing them as placeholders. I'm
sure there are many more ideas and I'm interested in them.
Jerome
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 10:18 AM Lisa Sieverts via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
At the risk of derailing this conversation, ah, I
definitely am derailing
it so will change the subject line.
I’d like to see new COVID-aware choreography with fewer swings. If
swinging is perhaps the most dangerous thing we do while dancing, I’d like
to see some new dances that emphasize partner swings and de-emphasize
neighbor swings, and at least some dances without any swings.
I’m intrigued by the idea that dances without swings open up 32 beats of
opportunity for new choreography.
Lisa Sieverts
603-762-0235
lisa(a)lisasieverts.com
On 23 Nov 2022, at 9:30, Jeff Kaufman via Contra Callers wrote:
"during the average contra evening, you will
spend approximately 30
minutes
swinging"
Tangent: I thought "that can't be right" but a little playing with
numbers
and I think it is. My back of the envelope:
guess ~12 dances, each ~17
times through, with ~20 beats of swinging per dance. That's 4k beats of
swinging, which at 118bpm is 35min. Another way to think of it is that
in
a 3hr evening half of your time is dancing and a
third of that is
swinging.
Jeff
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