1 Jan
2013
1 Jan
'13
2:30 p.m.
You all have inspired me. Last night I dreamt that the dance I'm supposedly
in charge of was being run by a whole cycle of random people pretending to
be contradance callers, that is, they had NO NOTION of how to call or walk
or teach, and most didn't even really understand contradance, with the
result that the dance was chaos, and I was trying to explain how calling a
contradance actually worked and *no one would listen to me*. Aaagh!
Happy 2013, all!
Maia
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martha Wild <mawild(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Oh, Mark, that is so awesome! What a great nightmare.
I've had them too,
but it mostly involves showing up in a strange place without any cards or
totally forgetting I was going to call or having my slippers on - no lovely
Zwiefacher's or Dave Brubeck band music. My real caller's nightmare was
calling for a bunch of airline personnel at a large company party in a tent
opposite a climbing wall and a craps table who were all drunk and new
people kept crashing into the dance and dragging other people along with
them.
Martha
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1. Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Mark Hillegonds)
2. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Dorcas Hand)
3. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Donald Perley)
4. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Kalia Kliban)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:41:25 -0500
From: "Mark Hillegonds" <mhillegonds(a)comcast.net>
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Subject: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices)
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Hi all,
Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season.
I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd share
it.
I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well.
There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers
who
insisted in doing the contra dances in square
formation. The contra
dancers
were experienced and wanted to dance in lines.
When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of
contra and square dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and
found that it was filled with restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus
and found some dances, but every one of them referenced some sort of
slice,
like cucumber slice and tomato slice and pizza
slice. (I guess I had the
Slices thread on my mind!)
The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began
playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.
I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my
alarm
going off. I was never so relieved to hear my
alarm. 8-)
Hope you all have better dreams!!!
Mark Hillegonds
cell: 734-756-8441
email: mhillegonds(a)comcast.net
blog: www.defriction.com
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:29:31 -0600
From: Dorcas Hand <handd51(a)tekkmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices)
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If the SNL writers knew anything about contradancing, they could have a
heck of a
good time with that one!
Dorcas Hand
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Subject: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices)
Hi all,
Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season.
I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd
share it.
I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well.
There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers
who
insisted in doing the contra dances in square formation. The contra
dancers were experienced and wanted to dance in lines.
When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of
contra and
square dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and
found that it was filled with restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus
and found some dances, but every one of them referenced some sort of slice,
like cucumber slice and tomato slice and pizza slice. (I guess I had the
Slices thread on my mind!)
The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five)
began
playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.
I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my
alarm
going off. I was never so relieved to hear my alarm. 8-)
Hope you all have better dreams!!!
Mark Hillegonds
cell: 734-756-8441
email: mhillegonds(a)comcast.net
blog: www.defriction.com
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:10:24 -0500
From: Donald Perley <donperley(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices)
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Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as a dance tune. Must
be the obituary put it in our heads.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Mark Hillegonds
<mhillegonds(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five)
began
playing
some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:30:47 -0800
From: Kalia Kliban <kalia(a)sbcglobal.net>
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On 12/28/2012 1:10 PM, Donald Perley wrote:
Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as
a dance tune. Must
be the obituary put it in our heads.
Here's a video of the stellar (sorry for the pun) Orion Longsword and
their original dance Take 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZZlEEyJ8c
For those unfamiliar with the tradition of English longsword dance, you
can find a fair number of videos out there on Youtube. Orion (based in
the Boston area) does some of the traditional dances, but mostly
performs their own compositions. If you ever go to NEFFA you might get
to see them there.
Kalia
p.s. Though it was the Dave Brubeck Quintet who recorded the tune, it
was actually written by the group's sax player, Paul Desmond.
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