New subject: Caller's nightmare

29 Dec 2012

Oh, Mark, that is so awesome! What a great nightmare. I've had them too, but it mostly
involves showing up in a strange place without any cards or totally forgetting I was going
to call or having my slippers on - no lovely Zwiefacher's or Dave Brubeck band music.
My real caller's nightmare was calling for a bunch of airline personnel at a large
company party in a tent opposite a climbing wall and a craps table who were all drunk and
new people kept crashing into the dance and dragging other people along with them.
Martha

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   1. Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Mark Hillegonds)
   2. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Dorcas Hand)
   3. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Donald Perley)
   4. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Kalia Kliban)

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 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:41:25 -0500
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 Hi all,

 Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season.

 I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd share
 it.

 I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well.
 There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers who
 insisted in doing the contra dances in square formation. The contra dancers
 were experienced and wanted to dance in lines.

 When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of
 contra and square dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and
 found that it was filled with restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus
 and found some dances, but every one of them referenced some sort of slice,
 like cucumber slice and tomato slice and pizza slice. (I guess I had the
 Slices thread on my mind!)

 The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began
 playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.

 I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my alarm
 going off. I was never so relieved to hear my alarm.  8-)

 Hope you all have better dreams!!!

 Mark Hillegonds

 cell:  734-756-8441
 email:  mhillegonds(a)comcast.net
 blog:  www.defriction.com

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 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:29:31 -0600
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 If the SNL writers knew anything about contradancing, they could have a heck of a good
time with that one!
 Dorcas Hand

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 Subject: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices)

 Hi all,

 Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season.

 I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd share it.

 I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well.
 There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers who insisted in
doing the contra dances in square formation. The contra dancers were experienced and
wanted to dance in lines.

 When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of contra and square
dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and found that it was filled with
restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus and found some dances, but every one of them
referenced some sort of slice, like cucumber slice and tomato slice and pizza slice. (I
guess I had the Slices thread on my mind!)

 The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began playing
some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.

 I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my alarm going
off. I was never so relieved to hear my alarm.  8-)

 Hope you all have better dreams!!!

 Mark Hillegonds

 cell:  734-756-8441
 email:  mhillegonds(a)comcast.net
 blog:  www.defriction.com

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 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:10:24 -0500
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 Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as a dance tune.  Must
 be the obituary put it in our heads.

 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Mark Hillegonds
 &lt;mhillegonds(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:

  The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave
Brubeck's Take Five) began
 playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line.  

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 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:30:47 -0800
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 On 12/28/2012 1:10 PM, Donald Perley wrote:
  Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as
a dance tune.  Must
 be the obituary put it in our heads.  
 Here's a video of the stellar (sorry for the pun) Orion Longsword and 
 their original dance Take 5:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZZlEEyJ8c

 For those unfamiliar with the tradition of English longsword dance, you 
 can find a fair number of videos out there on Youtube.  Orion (based in 
 the Boston area) does some of the traditional dances, but mostly 
 performs their own compositions.  If you ever go to NEFFA you might get 
 to see them there.

 Kalia

 p.s.  Though it was the Dave Brubeck Quintet who recorded the tune, it 
 was actually written by the group's sax player, Paul Desmond.

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