Peter, David, Chris, and Chip,
Thanks for the suggestions. I've added links to Cary Ravitz's choreography
article, Richard Power's teaching notes article, and a PDF of Peter Amidon's
callers' workshop overview (found on Karen Fontana's website). I also added
descriptions of Ted's first two books -- I had forgotten that he included
detailed notes on the dances, and only had in mind that Zesty and
Give-and-Take might have contained the sequences. The clear descriptions of
the choreography might well be a little more accessible to new callers than
the terse dance descriptions in Zesty. I don't have his third, and should
probably get a copy.
Caller Woody Lane mentioned a David Kaynor book on calling, but I don't see
it on the CDSS sales web site. (shortly later) Ah, I see that David's
website mentions it as "calling for beginners by beginners" and to contact
him for more information. I'll do that, and also link to his page of
"musings" (
http://www.davidkaynor.com/musings.html)
Now that I've finished procrastinating on taxes, I'll get back to fleshing
out the rest of my own articles. While I don't claim to be an expert on
teaching new callers, it seems that there's a bit of a gap in the material
on the web. As we have some folks in the area with an interest in starting
to call, I feel there's a bit of a local need for the material. We may well
start a series of "dance parties" to provide opportunities for these new
folks.
If anyone knows of other articles on calling, let me know, and I'll happily
link to them. FYI, I was still tweaking my page when I sent out my last
message, and that's why some didn't find the "resources.html" page, as
I'd
renamed it. You can find all of the callers' material I've pulled together
here:
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/
Thanks again,
William
P. S. Of course, with all of these articles newly found, I have lots of
reading to do... ;-)
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William J. Watson