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  1. waltz circle mixer with trios (d_kreiss-tomkins@riseup.net)
  2. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Mo Waddington)
  3. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Michael Dyck)
  4. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Colin Hume)
  5. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Gregory)
  6. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Allison and Hunt Smith)
  7. Fwd: Research Study on Gender-Free Contra Dance Callers
     (Seth Seeger)
  8. Re: waltz circle mixer with trios (Michael Dyck)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:35:33 +0000
From: d_kreiss-tomkins@riseup.net
Subject: [Callers] waltz circle mixer with trios
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Hello callers,

Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
progressing to the next trio.

Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!

David Kreiss-Tomkins

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 12:42:05 +0000
From: Mo Waddington <mjw@mowaddington.plus.com>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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I can think of 2 dances in that formation that aren't waltzes and
thumbing through CDM (Tony Parkes 1967 ed) finds more:

Silly threesome ( Community Dance Manual book5.16)

Rebecca's Roundabout (John Chapman)

Kielder Schottische (CDM book 3.4)

Russian Ballet (CDM bk 3.5)

Texas Rpogressive Threesome (CDM 5.17)

Nope, can't find one with waltzing

On 04/02/2025 08:35, None via Contra Callers wrote:

Hello callers,

Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
progressing to the next trio.

Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!

David Kreiss-Tomkins
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500
From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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On 2025-02-04 3:35 a.m., Mo via Contra Callers wrote:

Hello callers,

Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
progressing to the next trio.

At the Caller's Box, this is "Circle of Threesomes" formation, with single
progression:
https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/?formation=Circle+of+Threesomes&progression=Single

Currently, there are 20 such, but none of them involves waltzing, or is
paired with waltz-time music.

I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation. If two in each
threesome are waltzing, that leaves out the third. You could have (e.g.) the
center person waltz with each other person in turn, but that would take up a
lot of time. (Say, 8 bars each, 16 bars total of waltzing?)

More significantly, waltzing is asymmetric, so if the dance doesn't want
awkward pairings, it would have to dictate (e.g.) that each trio consists of
one 'lead' between two 'follows', with no rearrangement after the
progression. Which is not unheard of, but the examples are fairly old, and
might not go over that well these days (depending on the context).

-Michael

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:14:22 GMT
From: Colin Hume <colin@colinhume.com>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500, Michael Dyck via Contra Callers wrote:

I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation. If two in each threesome are waltzing, that leaves out
the third.

You're assuming that a dance in waltz time involves rotating with a ballroom hold - that's not true.
There are certainly old dances such as "Duke of Kent's Waltz" and "The Bath Waltz" which don't,
and there's no reason why there couldn't be modern ones too.

Colin Hume

Email colin@colinhume.com      Web site http://colinhume.com



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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:27:19 +0000
From: Gregory <glibguide@protonmail.com>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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I have a funny feeling I have danced this dance before, but so vague is my memory there's no way to be sure. I recall that there is indeed a portion of the dance where the middle person dances an individual waltz with the person on the right, then with the person on the left, and there may have been something like a hey for 3 (with hands) and some promenading.

Hopefully that helps jog the memory.


Greg Allan, Winnipeg






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On Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 at 12:35 AM, None via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hello callers,

Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
musician remembers and would like called. He pictures trios facing
around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
progressing to the next trio.

Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!

David Kreiss-Tomkins
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:10:43 -0500
From: Allison and Hunt Smith <huntandallison@gmail.com>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
To: Mo Waddington <mjw@mowaddington.plus.com>
Cc: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
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This certainly sounds as though it might be an English Country Dance.
Leah's Waltz by Fried Herman comes to mind
https://youtu.be/Zp_5pf3Xr6M?si=z-hMahQjyZmFDqtE


On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM Mo Waddington via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

I can think of 2 dances in that formation that aren't waltzes and
thumbing through CDM (Tony Parkes 1967 ed) finds more:

Silly threesome ( Community Dance Manual book5.16)

Rebecca's Roundabout (John Chapman)

Kielder Schottische (CDM book 3.4)

Russian Ballet (CDM bk 3.5)

Texas Rpogressive Threesome (CDM 5.17)

Nope, can't find one with waltzing

On 04/02/2025 08:35, None via Contra Callers wrote:

Hello callers,

Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
progressing to the next trio.

Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!

David Kreiss-Tomkins
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:32:54 -0500
From: Seth Seeger <seth@tofutavern.com>
Subject: [Callers] Fwd: Research Study on Gender-Free Contra Dance
Callers
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Hello callers,

This just came across my inbox, and I told them I would forward it to the list.  I know nothing more than is in this email.

Seth

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Coladangelo, LP" <lcoladan@kent.edu>
Subject: Research Study on Gender-Free Contra Dance Callers
Date: February 4, 2025 at 11:24:21 AM EST
To: "chris@sharedweight.net" <chris@sharedweight.net>, "seth@sharedweight.net" <seth@sharedweight.net>

Hello Chris and Seth (and members of the Shared Weight community),
My name is L.P. Coladangelo and I am a doctoral candidate in Communication and Information at Kent State University. I am conducting dissertation research on the knowledge practices of gender-free contra dance callers. In order to complete my study, I am asking for participants to fill out a questionnaire about their expertise, their calling practice, their social networks in the dance community, and their understanding of the culture and values of gender-free contra dance.
If you would be so kind as to share this study participation announcement (found below) with your community, I would greatly appreciate it. Additionally, if you know of others who may be interested in participating in the study, please feel free to send this information on to them. You may also have potential participants contact me directly to follow up by sharing my contact information with them.
If you or anyone interested in learning more about the study would wish to contact me, please email me at lcoladan@kent.edu <mailto:lcoladan@kent.edu> or my advisor Dr. Lala Hajibayova at 330- 672-2872 or lhajibay@kent.edu <mailto:lhajibay@kent.edu>.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best,
L.P. Coladangelo (he/him)
PhD Candidate, College of Communication and Information, Kent State University
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Study Title: Exploring Knowledge Practices of Callers as Core Practitioners of Gender-Free Contra Dance
Principal Investigator Name: L.P. Coladangelo (PhD Candidate), Dr. Lala Hajibayova (Advisor)
You are being invited to participate in a research study about gender-free contra dance callers that is being conducted by L.P. Coladangelo at Kent State University. This study has been approved by the Kent State University IRB.
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Eligible participants need only be over the age of 18 and currently identify as a contra dance caller.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:04:48 -0500
From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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On 2025-02-04 1:14 p.m., Colin Hume via Contra Callers wrote:

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500, Michael Dyck via Contra Callers wrote:

I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation.
If two in each threesome are waltzing, that leaves out the third.

You're assuming that a dance in waltz time involves rotating with a ballroom hold

No, I'm not assuming that at all. (I'm quite aware of the distinction.)
The original message didn't say "waltz time", it said "waltzing somehow",
which to me sounds like the dance-form, not the time signature.

-Michael

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