To: Robert Golder <robertgolder@comcast.net>
From: Seth Seeger <seth@seeger.ws>
Date: 10/14/2004 09:40AM
cc: Chris Weiler <chris.weiler@weirdtable.org>, <callers@sharedweight.net>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Bob Issac's Callers Workshop Materials

Yes, they came through broken for me too.  (Good eye, Bob!)  I will
work with Chris to convert the documents to PDF and resend them.  That
should take care of any Word oddities.

Seth


On Oct 14, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Robert Golder wrote:

>    Many thanks, Chris, for sharing Bob Isaacs' calling materials. The
> attachments all came through fine. The only odd thing for me (which
> may or
> may not be true for those with other versions of MS Word) is that
> fractions
> have been dropped from the descriptions of 50 dances in CDNY
> Repertoire.doc,
> and replaced with understrokes. For example, in my "Fun Dance for
> Marjorie,"
> the A1 should start with "Circle Left 3/4" but it reads "Circle L _"
> The
> second part of the B2 should be "Gents Allemande L 1-1/2."
>    Other recipients of the dances should check to see if their CDNY
> Repertoire.doc attachment shows the same problem. If so, be sure to
> work out
> the details of each dance before getting up to the microphone.
>    The comment for "Fun Dance for Marjorie" reads "After the partner
> swing,
> gents need to..." which sure is a dramatic pause! I'll bet that Bob
> Isaacs
> wrote something like this: After the partner swing, gents need to
> diagonally
> cross the set, passing by the right shoulder as they take the other
> gent's
> former position, and turn to face in. Ladies do the same. In addition,
> as
> the ladies pass each other, they join right hands. Then the gents
> reach in
> to take right hands with each other, to form a hands-across right-hand
> star.
>    This is an elegant but nevertheless pretty brisk movement which I
> call in
> eight beats, as follows: Gents - cross - ladies - cross - handsa -
> cross -
> righthand - star.
>    The star is danced once around and then (with gents in the lead)
> partners
> progress up or down the set to new neighbors, with whom the dance
> begins
> again by circling three-quarters to the left.
>    Thanks go to Linda Leslie who made key suggestions while I was
> scratching
> my head at this point while writing the dance five years ago.
>    I was surprised and pleased to see "Fun Dance for Marjorie" included
> among so many classic contras.  ... Bob
>
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