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... ;-) -- wjw1961(a)gmail.com William J. Watson

I will second John's opinion of David's book! I got it from John when I started calling. While I have a collection of books on calling, this one continues to be the one I refer to most often. -cynthia (also not a paid advertisement) :-) -----Original Message----- From: callers-bounces(a)sharedweight.net [mailto:callers-bounces@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of John C. McIntire Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:17 PM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] New callers material? Hi All, I see where someone mentioned David Kaynor's booklet, Calling for Beginners by Beginners, as a resource for new callers. I would go so far to suggest to all callers that if they have only one book on dance calling, this is the one they should have. The booklet is not an endless collection of dances. It IS a straight forward approach to the process of dance calling, programming and thinking about dancers. I recommend this booklet if for no other reason than David's approach and attitude to calling dances and the clear way he expresses this attitude. I have included it in the cost for calling classes I have given in order to be certain of getting it into new caller's hands. True enough, you will have to get the book directly from David but it will be the best $14 you have ever spent. Cheers, John McIntire, Unity, ME ps. the above endorsement was NOT a paid advertisement! _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers

davidkaynor AT mac DOT com On 4/19/07, aawoodall <aawoodall(a)verizon.net> wrote: -- -- wjw1961(a)gmail.com William J. Watson