I've been calling for a little over a year now, on a volunteer basis here in Memphis TN. What that works out to is calling at one or two dances a month, and programming and calling half that evenings dances- between 4-5 individual dances each time. So I don't feel like I have a year's experience with the limited opportunities to practice with an audience. What I am most interested in, that could possibly be taught or explored in that time frame, is teaching walkthroughs. IME some of the greatest dances just don't go well or are slow starters if I don't give a good walkthrough. Things I'm working on that aren't as easily taught: personality and presence in dealing with the crowd, enunciation, and matching music to the dance and the dance to the music. For that last one I found Amy Cann's long post a few months back very helpful! -Alison Murphy Memphis TN "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ~ James Madison HTTP://WWW.RONPAUL2008.COM -- "Beth Parkes" <beth(a)hands4.com> wrote: A question for newer callers: Since this is a list specifically to support new callers, I thought I'd ask what you would like to have covered in a callers discussion workshop. Specifically, a single session of not more than a couple of hours, so there's really not time to do a lot of serious teaching. I have lots of ideas, but it's been a long time since I was a new caller and I want to know what YOU want to know. Thanks in advance, Beth _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers _____________________________________________________________ Boost your business with a small business loan. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2111/fc/Ioyw6iigEfXeQ2Vf7XVWG0liAF7hBZC…