Re: [Callers] Borrowing call terminology from modern square dancing

Greg - you wondered why I suggested ONS (One Night Stand) dances - that is, dances for non-dancers. I was responding to this in your post on this thread: <goog_185861309> Greg wrote: "My goal is to keep this art form available to the most people possible. I know that I, personally, would not have kept dancing contras if a lot of new calls had been thrown at me every time I attended. My goal is to keep that venue open to the general non-dancing public." I do not in any way advocate turning contra dances into ONS. I just wondered if that might not be the result of doing what you suggested. I believe strongly that we must try to meet the needs of at least three groups of dancers: beginners, intermediate dancers and advanced dancers. How we can manage to do this all in the course of a single evening is the difficult issue we need to continuously discuss. We've come up with good ideas (like convincing good dancers that the truly advanced dancer can and should dance with new and inexperienced dancers) and are busy coming up with more (like gently introducing the best moves from MSD and English into contra). M E