Hi Everyone,
We have a potluck and caller workshop coming up at the end of April! They are focused on calling styles in the contra community. We hope you can join us for them!
For a while now we have been experimenting with a gender-neutral calling style called Larks and Robins. We'd like to get your feedback on this - so we’d like to invite you to a potluck before the regular Friday dance on April 28 to come and talk with us about how it’s been going.
After the potluck, our Friday dance at Dec Rec will introduce a third option for gender neutral calling - "positional" calling, which removes gender and role terms altogether. Our intention is for these experiments to explore ways to deliver great dances efficiently, inclusively, and authentically. Come check it out, give us your feedback, and enjoy the great music by Snapfinger with Ed Howe and positional calling by Beadle!
The following Saturday morning on April 29, Beadle will run a positional calling workshop with live fiddle tunes to help callers in the area play with another way of getting dancers to
the right place, on time. All levels welcome - more details in the flyer attached.
Email Tami at
dahltami888@gmail.com with any questions!
April 28 | Friday Night Dance and Potluck Discussion @ Decatur Rec Center 6:00pm
· 6:00 - 7:45 Potluck and community discussion on gender neutral calling
· 8:00 - 10:30 Dance, positional calling by Beadle and tunes by Snapfinger with Ed Howe -- Leila Soulen (fiddle), Alan Gordon (mandolin, cittern), Laura Joseph (guitar), Russ Sites (guitar, clawhammer banjo), and Ed Howe (fiddle)
April 29 | Saturday Morning Caller Workshop: ‘Positional Calling’