I've been presented with some interesting guidelines relating to programming: End the evening with La bastrangue Include 1 contra with contra corners in the evening Don't call squares Don't call contras (at the Blacksburg square dance). As a person booking the dances in C'ville I noticed that during one summer, ALL of the callers called an entire evening composed of dances in the pattern of: A1 swing neighbor (variations of) A2 some easy moves in order to.... B1 swing partner (including all the variations) B2 some easy moves in order to......... The experienced dancers got really bored. So I had to request that callers vary the story lines and actually include some meat in their programs. We've moved to a smaller hall that requires short lines. I suggested no double progression dances and a circle mixer as the 3rd or so dance- people tickled in and this is when the numbers were too many for one line and too few for 2 lines. Tom callers-request(a)sharedweight.net wrote: > Send Callers mailing list submissions to > callers(a)sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > callers-request(a)sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > callers-owner(a)sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. dance guidelines (lynn ackerson) > 2. Re: dance guidelines (Lisa Sieverts) > 3. Re: dance guidelines (Lisa Greenleaf) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:04:13 -0800 (PST) > From: lynn ackerson <callynn1(a)pacbell.net> > Subject: [Callers] dance guidelines > To: callers <callers(a)sharedweight.net> > Message-ID: <20050126230413.29985.qmail(a)web81610.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > During the past month, I've had more exposure to dance guidelines and people wanting to write dance guidelines than I've ever had before. What I'm talking about is guidelines that the programmer/organizer of a regular dance series provides to callers who will be calling at that dance. I've found some to be very helpful, especially when I've never been to that dance. Others provide way too much information and almost feel like micromanaging. > > So, my questions for you all are: 1) Have you ever received a set of such guidelines (or sent them out from your dance), and if so, would you be willing to share them with us? 2) As a caller, what information would you like to have included in such a document? 3) As a dance organizer, what information would you like to convey to incoming callers? 4) How much detail would you like such documents contain? > > Thanks, > Lynn >