summer dances - Contra Callers

1 Aug 2005

Here's a dance I like to call especially when it's hot.  If anyone knows the name
of the dance and the composer please let me know.

A1, A2  In a ring of four balance.  Pet. spin.  Repeat three more times.

B1  Circle left.  Swing neighbor

B2 Forward and back. Actives swing.

I usually do this one early in the evening (maybe the 3rd dance).  Having done
the Pet. spins, the dancers can usually handle a higher level dance with the same
spins.

Tom

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    1. Starting A Contra Dance... (Jeffrey M.Petrovitch)

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 Hey Everyone:

 A friend and I were thinking about starting a contra dance in Chesterfield,
 New Hampshire.  Chesterfield is about 10-15 minutes West of Keene, New
 Hampshire and about 10-15 minutes East of Brattleboro, Vermont.  We were
 thinking about having the dance on Thursday nights at the Chesterfield Town
 Hall.  We were thinking that Thursday nights would be a good time, because we
 would not have to compete with the Friday and Saturday night dances, and the
 only other contra dance would be Cambridge.  As anyone who does not live in
 the Greater Boston Area knows that the trip to Cambridge can be a long one,
 especially on a Thursday night.

 I would hope that we could gear the dance so that it would have a nice balance
 of traditional and modern contra dance styles, to appeal to the more
 traditional dances in New Hampshire and also the more modern dances of
 Greenfield, MA.

 Any comments or feedback would be very helpful.

 Thanks,

 Jeff

 Jeffrey M. Petrovitch

 jeffrey.m.petrovitch(a)usa.net

 ?Five night of contra dancing... through ?top-notch? style and
 technique, with the love and passion for the dance, the title above all other
 was awarded.  I am an ?Iron Dancer?.  Two times the dancing, two times an
 ?Iron Dancer?.? ? J. M. Petrovitch

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