If you have a technical bent, you can try entering your dance into Cary Ravitz's Micro Robot Dance visualizer. https://www.dance.ravitz.us/mrd.php Timothy Klein

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:

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&gt; wrote:

I use my Carcassonne Meeples. Tall ones are the ladies, wide ones are the men. First couple is red, second couple yellow, etc. They are great dancers, though they sometimes forget which way they are facing!             Happy dancing,                    John John Sweeney, Dancer, England   john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent

On Sat, 17 May 2025 19:08:36 -0400, Angela DeCarlis via Contra Callers wrote: 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. Colin Hume