15 Mar
2009
15 Mar
'09
5:05 p.m.
Money Musk called and danced at the Wescustogo Grange Hall, North Yarmouth, Maine.
First dance after the break - about 10:30pm.
Dancers: Five sets of 6 ccouples - 60 dancers
Band: Perpetual eMotion (Ed Howe & John Cote)
Caller: Chrissy Fowler
Did a workshop before the dance, with about 30 dancers. All were enthusiastic and pleased
to be part of the big event. Much hooting and hollering. Loping pace for the tune
(plenty of recovery time for the Money Musk newbies, well-timed elegant styling for the
old hands.) Some people apparently showed up specifically because Money Musk was on the
program, thanks to some some advance publicity. Two sets merged, so a few people
didn't get the chance to be active, because I didn't want to run it too long.
(Though I could have... after all I was at that Ralph Page Legacy Weekend when we danced
it 43x!)
I had practiced so much that I prompted the dance all night long in my sleep. ("Once
and a half around, once and a half and you go below one...")
Wheee! :-)
Chrissy
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17 Mar
17 Mar
8:12 p.m.
New subject: Chestnuts and Money Musk
Hi Chrissy! Super about Money Musk! any chance we'll get to dance it at the
festival? as follows is the email i mentioned i would forward, from Barry
Jellison, a professor at UMO... sorry to be short and sweet, but we are!
;)
Kim
Hi Kim,
I hope this address is correct for you.
Trusting that it is: We were at the dance last night in Belfast (friends
of Mark and Alex and we live in Bangor) and we met you previously at the
Trenton Dance that you called? Great dance last night, and even though I am
a fan of a lot of the
older dance tunes, dancing to the old Stevie Wonder tune was awesome!
A request, or something to think about anyway:
I don't know if we will even get to the next dances you call, but I keep
going to dances hoping that somebody will mix in some of the older
"chestnuts" that are still really good to dance to. Everybody knows Chorus
Jig, and Rory O'More and
Petronella, but nobody calls them anymore....and I am not thinking about
calling them every dance, but I have been waiting 30 years to dance some of
those dances again....and I still remember how much fun it was to balance
ocean waves up and down
the hall with Rory O'More from that long ago even though I have probably
only danced it only 3 times in my life.
So, I know Chorus Jig is probably a pain in the butt to teach to new folks
with the country corners figure (and older people like me probably forget
halfway through the dance). And it's true that everybody calls a newer dance
now that is sort of
like Petronella (and they always teach it..."Now do a spin turn, just like a
Petronella turn")... But do you think that you might be able to revive one
or two of these old dances? (Just the good ones, I know there are a lot of
boring old ones too).
It would be nice to dance them in Maine sometime.
Thanks,
Barry
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Chrissy Fowler <ktaadn_me(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Money Musk called and danced at the Wescustogo Grange Hall, North Yarmouth,
Maine.
First dance after the break - about 10:30pm.
Dancers: Five sets of 6 ccouples - 60 dancers
Band: Perpetual eMotion (Ed Howe & John Cote)
Caller: Chrissy Fowler
Did a workshop before the dance, with about 30 dancers. All were
enthusiastic and pleased to be part of the big event. Much hooting and
hollering. Loping pace for the tune (plenty of recovery time for the Money
Musk newbies, well-timed elegant styling for the old hands.) Some people
apparently showed up specifically because Money Musk was on the program,
thanks to some some advance publicity. Two sets merged, so a few people
didn't get the chance to be active, because I didn't want to run it too
long. (Though I could have... after all I was at that Ralph Page Legacy
Weekend when we danced it 43x!)
I had practiced so much that I prompted the dance all night long in my
sleep. ("Once and a half around, once and a half and you go below one...")
Wheee! :-)
Chrissy
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10:21 p.m.
New subject: Chestnuts and Money Musk
Hi all,
Reporting out for SF Bay Area, California:
Money Musk was danced at BACDS Spring Weekend, Monte Toyon, Santa Cruz:
11 am PST: during Tripe Minor Contras workshop with Linda Leslie calling to the music
of The Rhythum Rollers (W.B. Reid, Cathie Whitesides, Bob McQuillen, Laurie Andres)
It was great to learn it in a workshop environment as there were a lot of folks who had
never dances Money Musk, and also more time to explain the history of the dance, etc.
Then, at the evening dance party, we danced it again, with a larger crowd:
10 pm PST: Bob Isaacs calling to the music of The Rhythum Rollers (W.B. Reid, Cathie
Whitesides, Bob McQuillen, Laurie Andres)
Here's a short video of both sessions taken by David Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8hIwkpo1Q
What a great idea!
Karen Fontana
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Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:05:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Callers] Chestnuts and Money Musk
Money Musk called and danced at the Wescustogo Grange Hall, North Yarmouth, Maine.
First dance after the break - about 10:30pm.
Dancers: Five sets of 6 ccouples - 60 dancers
Band: Perpetual eMotion (Ed Howe & John Cote)
Caller: Chrissy Fowler
Did a workshop before the dance, with about 30 dancers. All were enthusiastic and pleased
to be part of the big event. Much hooting and hollering. Loping pace for the tune
(plenty of recovery time for the Money Musk newbies, well-timed elegant styling for the
old hands.) Some people apparently showed up specifically because Money Musk was on the
program, thanks to some some advance publicity. Two sets merged, so a few people
didn't get the chance to be active, because I didn't want to run it too long.
(Though I could have... after all I was at that Ralph Page Legacy Weekend when we danced
it 43x!)
I had practiced so much that I prompted the dance all night long in my sleep. ("Once
and a half around, once and a half and you go below one...")
Wheee! :-)
Chrissy
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