I find Monkey in the Middle (by Sherry Nevins) a friendly variant of Ninepins. You are choosing a partner rather than scrambling and a person feeling left out.
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> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Chris Page via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> Ninepins?
>
> -Chris Page
> San Diego, CA
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Sue via Callers
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>> Sure they're all fun (we hope). I'm looking for a few dances that are
>> particularly playful, quirky, silly....something that typically gets the
>> dancers laughing.
>>
>> You get the idea. What are your favorites?
>>
>> Sue Gola
>> Princeton, NJ
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Hi all,
I have been calling for about a 18 months now, mostly Contra, with a bit of ECD mixed in for good measure. The one thing I haven’t tried yet is American format squares(chorus, figure, figure, chorus, etc)! So, I have some square figures that I’d like to try, but I’m a bit stuck on choruses. Has anyone got any good, interesting, but simple choruses that can be easily done ‘on the call’?
Many Thanks,
Liam Binley.
liam.binley(a)me.com
I took Luke's Double Contra and, since I often work with small groups, made
it into a Four Couple Dance:
Luke's Tunnel (by John Sweeney/Luke Donforth)
Four Couples; Longways; Becket
Start in Side Lines; Number the positions as in a Square Dance
A1: Neighbour Balance & Box the Gnat - keep right hand high to make a Tunnel
Couple at #1s position go through the Tunnel
Other End Couple go through the Tunnel
A2: Ends (went through Tunnel together) & Sides (i.e NOT the person you are
holding hands with): Dosido & Swing - finish in a Square
B1: Into the Middle, on the way back Men Roll Current Partner Away with a
Half Sashay
Men Star Right to Partner
B2: Partner Gypsy & Swing - finish in Head Lines
Next time those in #2s position go through first and you finish in Side
Lines - four times through lets everyone be the first Tunneler
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
940 574
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events & DVDs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
Much hard work here, guys. Thanks for sharing it.
Is there an API for this? Feel free to answer this tech question privately.
\Bob Peterson
Bob(a)contracorner.com
\Bob
> On Aug 21, 2018, at 23:37, Chris Page via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
>
> This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
> 5,000 dances with viewable instructions
> 4,000 more dances with links to instructions
>
> Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
> You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
> permission to show the figures.
>
>
> This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
>
> Have fun!
>
> (and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
>
> -Chris Page and Michael Dyck
>
> p.s.
> This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
> started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
> building my database back in November of 2010.
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Friends,
The 21st Annual Pourparler Gathering will be in San Antonio, TX, November 1-4, 2018 (http://nfo-usa.org/pourparler/). Quite a few Sharedweight folks are Pourparler veterans. The Pourparler is a gathering of several dozen dance and music leaders, who share dances, songs, games, and tips with each other in an egalitarian format (everyone is a participant and leader, without hired "experts"). Pourparler rotates around the country each year: 2017 was in Maryland, 2018 is in Texas, and 2019 will be in Minnesota.
Pourparler covers a panoply of genres, with the common theme being material that's accessible and easily taught and learned. Material presented last year in Maryland included simple longways dances, contras, circles, squares, groups of three, sword dancing, a Romanian stick dance, international folk dances from all over, a variety of songs, and an Afghani musical game involving three rolling balls and lots of jumping, among much else. At my previous times attending Pourparler, I've learned more about dance leadership, and gleaned more material to use at one-night events and community/wedding/school type dances, than from anyplace else. Additional invaluable material and strategies are shared on the Pourparler Google Group, a group for alumni of one or more of the annual gatherings.
Traditionally, Pourparler has been run under the auspices of the National Folk Organization (NFO), which is the national umbrella organization for international folk dance and other dance genres, with additional support from the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) and the New England Dancing Masters (NEDM). My fellow Steering Committee members and I are all members of NFO, CDSS, or both, as are many of you. I encourage you to consider joining us at Pourparler this November in Texas or in Fall 2019 in Minnesota!
Jeremy Korr, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Hi Luke,
There’s only one move (start of B1) done in a square, the one you are in a square at that point with isn’t your partner, and you don’t start the dance in a square, so, no, I wouldn’t call it a square.
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events & DVDs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
From: Luke Donforth <luke.donev(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 24 August 2018 18:11
To: John Sweeney <john(a)modernjive.com>
Cc: callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] Luke's Tunnel
Thanks for sharing John.
This seems a hair's breadth away from being a square dance. Is there a reason to run it as a "contra" rather than a "square"? Or do you find the distinction doesn't really matter?
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 8:19 AM John Sweeney via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net> > wrote:
I took Luke’s Double Contra and, since I often work with small groups, made it into a Four Couple Dance:
Luke’s Tunnel (by John Sweeney/Luke Donforth)
Four Couples; Longways; Becket
Start in Side Lines; Number the positions as in a Square Dance
A1: Neighbour Balance & Box the Gnat - keep right hand high to make a Tunnel
Couple at #1s position go through the Tunnel
Other End Couple go through the Tunnel
A2: Ends (went through Tunnel together) & Sides (i.e NOT the person you are holding hands with): Dosido & Swing – finish in a Square
B1: Into the Middle, on the way back Men Roll Current Partner Away with a Half Sashay
Men Star Right to Original Partner
B2: Partner Gypsy & Swing – finish in Head Lines
Next time those in #2s position go through first and you finish in Side Lines - four times through lets everyone be the first Tunneler
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com <mailto:john@modernjive.com> 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events & DVDs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
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On 8/21/2018 8:37 PM, Chris Page via Callers wrote:
> Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
I've just started seriously poking around in this site today and it's
fabulous. I can't thank the two of you enough for making this available
to all of us!
Kalia in Sebastopol
Hi Chris,
I've gone ahead and added a short-link on contra.dance -
http://www.contra.dance/thecallersbox
Hopefully this can make it a little easier to share around.
Thanks for the work you two put into bringing this together!
Isaac
ps - you can check out usage stats for the link at
http://www.contra.dance/thecallersbox+
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:37 PM Chris Page via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
>
> This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
> 5,000 dances with viewable instructions
> 4,000 more dances with links to instructions
>
> Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
> You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
> permission to show the figures.
>
>
> This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to
> use.
>
> Have fun!
>
> (and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
>
> -Chris Page and Michael Dyck
>
> p.s.
> This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
> started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
> building my database back in November of 2010.
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This looks great, thanks Chris!
For my part you have permission to show any dances of mine that are included (there's one that I sent to this list a few years back).
—Sam
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, at 22:37, Chris Page via Callers wrote:
> Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
>
> This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
> 5,000 dances with viewable instructions
> 4,000 more dances with links to instructions
>
> Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
> You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
> permission to show the figures.
>
>
> This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
>
> Have fun!
>
> (and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
>
> -Chris Page and Michael Dyck
>
> p.s.
> This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
> started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
> building my database back in November of 2010.
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