19 May
2025
19 May
'25
1:58 p.m.
I don't do much choreography, but I do occasionally need to understand how a dance
works, so I designed and laser cut myself a set of acrylic tokens for walking through
dances as well as a dance floor with a grid:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chromamine/54530268274/
They're each labeled with a role (R or L for Robin and Lark or, if you prefer,
Right-hand role and Left-hand role) and a couple number (1 through 4) which are also
indicated by shape and color, respectively as well. I sometimes lose track of left and
right when I'm using them so I have plans for a future iteration to also engrave a
tiny L and R on each token to indicate where their left and right hand would be.
Harris Lapiroff (he/him)
Dance Caller and Organizer
Boston Intergenerational Dance Advocates Board (Cambridge MA)
Pinewoods Camp, Inc Board (Plymouth MA)
https://chromamine.com/contra/
On Mon, May 19, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Claire Baffaut via Contra Callers wrote:
John, you talked about the Peebles of Carcassonne once
on this list. Since then, I bought the game, had a lot of fun with it, and now use the
Peebles as well.
And if you are in France, do visit Carcassonne (not during high season) and the
surrounding region. It's beautiful...
*Claire Baffaut*
On Sun, May 18, 2025, 15:11 Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers
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No app exists that successfully handles dances
in which dancers pop off the end two or more times.
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM Michael Dyck via Contra Callers
<contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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On 2025-05-18 2:33 a.m., Colin Hume via Contra
Callers wrote:
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DeCarlis via Contra Callers wrote:
> What visual aids do you use when choreographing? [...]
I use bits of cardboard. See my reasoning and other discussion at:
https://colinhume.com/cardboard.htm
And there are three links, though the third one no longer works.
That third one is "Contra Dance Designer", which links to
https://seattledance.org/misc/contra.design/index.htm
which no longer exists.
But the Internet Archive captured it a few times, most recently at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221025231115/https://seattledance.org/misc/co…
so you can see it there.
Mind you, it doesn't work very well, if at all, but one could possibly glean
something from the code. I seem to recall that it assumed Internet Explorer,
and never worked well in other browsers.
-Michael
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