18 Sep
2016
18 Sep
'16
4:54 p.m.
As I programed my dance evenings for this weekend, I noticed that close to
80% of my dance cards have just the Ladies in the center doing something,
About 10% have the Gents going in, and the remaining 10% or so have both
the Lady and the Gent, or neither the Lady or the Gent going in.
My observations consider a Hey and Half hey as neutral, and as such I did
not include the hey in my estimations. However if the hey was set up by an
allemande or chain, those basics were considered.
Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?
Rich Sbardella
Stafford, CT
18 Sep
18 Sep
4:59 p.m.
I would say my collection tends to involve more Gents in the center, often coming out of a
swing, going into an allemande L 1-1/2, to swing on the other side, but that’s just an
empirical feeling because I notice having to pull dances from a program if too many have
that transition.
Thanx, Ric Goldman
Portland, OR
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Subject: [Callers] Dance Variety
As I programed my dance evenings for this weekend, I noticed that close to 80% of my dance
cards have just the Ladies in the center doing something, About 10% have the Gents going
in, and the remaining 10% or so have both the Lady and the Gent, or neither the Lady or
the Gent going in.
My observations consider a Hey and Half hey as neutral, and as such I did not include the
hey in my estimations. However if the hey was set up by an allemande or chain, those
basics were considered.
Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?
Rich Sbardella
Stafford, CT
5:34 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Rich Sbardella via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Is this unique to my collection or this generally true
of contra dances?
I've had a similar observation (not in my deck necessarily but also from
the dance programs I encounter on the floor) - in many cases the Ladies are
the ones getting the run around/doing the most "single role" action. I
haven't done the percentages, but to me it seems the Gents' same role
action is typically limited to allemandes.
This is something I've been using to inform my own dance compositions,
creating either more even or Gents-heavy dances (featuring other moves)
which could balance things out in aggregate.
-Don
5:45 p.m.
If you start from the common man-on-the-left, woman-on-the-right, and
circle left 3/4, the women have swapped sides.
Easiest fix is to have the women swap sides again somewhere else.
-Chris Page
San Diego, CA
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Don Veino via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Rich Sbardella via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?
I've had a similar observation (not in my deck necessarily but also from the
dance programs I encounter on the floor) - in many cases the Ladies are the
ones getting the run around/doing the most "single role" action. I haven't
done the percentages, but to me it seems the Gents' same role action is
typically limited to allemandes.
This is something I've been using to inform my own dance compositions,
creating either more even or Gents-heavy dances (featuring other moves)
which could balance things out in aggregate.
-Don
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