Re: [Callers] Callers' workshop - Contra Callers

16 Dec 2009

   Also agree.  Was just at the board meeting for our local dance group,
   and one of the things we were talking about was the need for the caller
   to reinforce good dancing.  Have had a number of folks recently
   complain about dance floor injuries from people dancing out of their
   space.  Strangely enough, we had more issues at a dance that was well
   attended, but not overcrowded than we did at a really crowded dance.
   Theory was expressed that people possibly felt that they had more space
   and expanded to fill it (and didn't really have as much space as they
   thought).  Then theres issues with allemandes, late twirls,
   cranking.....
   Would love to hear what you come up with (or other people's ideas) for
   ways to get things like that across without being preachy or just
   having the dancers stop listening to you.
   Jack
   At 07:48 PM 12/15/2009, you wrote:

     Agreed!
     I would also add - how to do the same with "community-building": how
     to make
     people feel welcome, glad to be there, relaxed with the other
     dancers,
     friendly, and full of good humor, all without being preachy.
     M
     E
     On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central
     Computing <
     winston(a)slac.stanford.edu&gt; wrote:
...
  David wrote:

 > So, what are topics that _you_ would like to see in a workshop?      Assuming
...
  that
 > one already has the nuts and bolts of programming an evening,      teaching a
...
  dance,
 > and delivering the calls in good fashion, what skills would be      useful to
...
   address?

 How to teach/sell 'good dancing' without seeming like a pedant.      (It
seems
...
  like
 it's an easy trap for callers in all country dance genres to aim      for
...
  competence/efficiency in teaching _dances_, and
neglect teaching      _dancing_.
...
  You pretty much have to slip that style/skill
instruction in while      teaching
...
  dances, and that's a skill in itself.)

 -- Alan

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