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/
>
> 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.
Wow! Thank you for all the time and know-how you two have put into
this! I look forward to browsing the site and getting comfy with the
search function. This sounds like an incredible resource.
Kalia
Thanks for the resource! I've found it to be incredibly useful in answering
the "did someone already write this?" question, as well as tracking down
titles/authors for the dance snippets collected from others' calling.
-Don
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:37 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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Congratulations on getting the database up! And thank you for the massive
effort you've put into it!
I'd write a dance to celebrate it, but I think you probably don't want a
dance with over ten thousand figures... heck at this point it'd be
understandable if you wanted us to stop writing dances entirely ;-)
Thanks again!
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:37 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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Bravo. thank you.
~ When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance. ~Hans Bos~ ~
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 11:37:55 PM EDT, 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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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.
Hi,
Thanks for the replies, I'll address the points in-line below.
-Don
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Luke Donforth <luke.donev(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The sense I have of the A2 bit is that you've combined a mad robin with a
> hey, right? I'd start with that as the description. It's just a hey
> passing the one you swung by right shoulder, but you're facing your partner
> in the other line of four as you go.
>
A Hey obviously works, but I originally envisioned something more wide like
a Mad Robin (fewer, bigger loops) so the combination was meant to be more
like if a Figure 8 and a Mad Robin had a love child. Each dancer was to
follow the path of their own personal full Figure 8 from their differing
starting positions.
>
> And if it's not a hey, but in fact something a little different then a hey
> in terms of the switches, then I'd try to see if it would work as a mad
> robin hey...
>
I got a chance to try out just the critical bits on the sideline with some
very experienced dancers this evening. The Fig-8 style sequence works as
envisioned, but it is pretty much impossible to teach - as it violates
firmly ingrained dancer expectations. It took an excessive amount of time
before they'd do it as instructed, they **want** it to be a Hey and kept
accidentally twiddling it to be so. I understand why - it was the reason
I'd originally put this aside.
Despite my own discomfort with the additional crosses of a Hey with that
facing, they liked it being done while facing Partners up/down (we only had
a single line/4 to try it so could only simulate with ghosts). I accept
that going with the Hey is the best way to go, and leaving it to a styling
option if folks want to do it facing Partners MR-like (it will work fine if
some folks do and others don't).
> But then, I'm not actually sure what you mean by weave the ring in B1; so
> possibly I should get some more sleep after my own gigs.
>
Standard Weave the Ring 1/2x around the group of 8, starting by passing
Partner right. The Circles of 4 @3/4x after the A2 effectively puts
everyone on the corner of the minor set/8 with their Partner such that it
should be easy to pull into the Weave and end with P on the opposite
diagonal.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 3:01 PM Bob Green via Callers <
> callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Well Don, you know you shouldn't be smoking that stuff....... )))
>>
>
Not that I would ever go there, but Massachusetts is taking its sweet time
post-legalization. :-)
>
>> Sugar Hill is next weekend. We should be able to wrangle up enough
>> dancers to give this a decent walk-thru. This looks like a great dance to
>> tryout at 4:00 in the morning. :::wink:::
>>
>
Would love to hear about it if you do give it a go.
> If I have this right you are weaving the line, but faced like you are a
>> crab.
>>
>
Hopefully the additional commentary above clarifies. The A2 now becomes
simply a Full Hey for 4 in the parallel lines/4, starting with a pass the
Opposite (you swung) outside by right (lefts in center). Facing up/down at
your Partner Mad-Robin-style while doing the parallel moves is a styling
option (one I'd love to try).
>> This is one of those I think a demo set would be the most expedient teach
>> the A2. Get 8 dancers walked through it before the dance starts or at the
>> break.
>>
>
Thanks for the advice. Even with the change to a more typical Hey, the
styling demonstration would likely still be helpful.
> If I have this right you are weaving the line of 4 facing up & down the
>> hall, faced like you are a crab.
>>
>
See above.
>
>> Looks like it might be fun!
>>
>> Bob Green
>>
>>
>> [trimmed out original post details]
>
>
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>
Barbara et al:
There's a lot of Halloween postings in the archives. Check this out:
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=halloween&l=callers%40lists.sharedwei…
Donna
Web Site: donnahuntcaller.com
Email: dhuntdancer(a)aol.com
Cell: 215-565-6050
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Sent: Sun, Aug 19, 2018 1:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Callers] dances for Halloween
The ones that come to mind are:
- Wizard's Walk
- The Zombies of Sugar Hill
Happy calling!
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:12 AM barbara153--- via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi everyone!
I will be calling a dance on Halloween and would like to know if anyone can share some Halloween themed dances with choreography if possible.
I do have :
Halloween Twist
Chainsaw
Thanks and keep on calling...
Barbara G
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Witches' Cauldron by Kirsten Koths is a favorite of mine - Becket
Sicilian Mixer - easy moves for the inclusion of beginners, and a very
unusual progression (see Notes at
<http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_184.html>) to keep the
experienced dancers entertained. I do _not_ recommend it if you have
more than 20% beginners on the floor.The tune *OLD GREY CAT*’s a VERY
GOOD MATCHin rhythm and mood. I've had fun introducing it with a witchy
chant:
/Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble!/
/Come and stir my pot with me. Bring a partner; come and see!/
When we dance *Witches’ Cauldron*, we’ll be stirring the pot this way
and that; things will bubble up; there’ll be eddies and lumps.
Karin
//
/
/
On 8/19/2018 1:22 PM, Maia McCormick via Callers wrote:
> The ones that come to mind are:
> - Wizard's Walk
> - The Zombies of Sugar Hill
>
> Happy calling!
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:12 AM barbara153--- via Callers
> <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
> <mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
> I will be calling a dance on Halloween and would like to know if
> anyone can share some Halloween themed dances with choreography
> if possible.
> I do have :
> Halloween Twist
> Chainsaw
> Thanks and keep on calling...
> Barbara G
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Hi everyone!
I will be calling a dance on Halloween and would like to know if anyone can share some Halloween themed dances with choreography if possible.
I do have :
Halloween Twist
Chainsaw
Thanks and keep on calling...
Barbara G
The sense I have of the A2 bit is that you've combined a mad robin with a
hey, right? I'd start with that as the description. It's just a hey
passing the one you swung by right shoulder, but you're facing your partner
in the other line of four as you go.
And if it's not a hey, but in fact something a little different then a hey
in terms of the switches, then I'd try to see if it would work as a mad
robin hey...
But then, I'm not actually sure what you mean by weave the ring in B1; so
possibly I should get some more sleep after my own gigs.
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 3:01 PM Bob Green via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Well Don, you know you shouldn't be smoking that stuff....... )))
>
> Sugar Hill is next weekend. We should be able to wrangle up enough dancers
> to give this a decent walk-thru. This looks like a great dance to tryout at
> 4:00 in the morning. :::wink::: If I have this right you are weaving the
> line, but faced like you are a crab.
>
> This is one of those I think a demo set would be the most expedient teach
> the A2. Get 8 dancers walked through it before the dance starts or at the
> break.
> If I have this right you are weaving the line of 4 facing up & down the
> hall, faced like you are a crab.
>
> Looks like it might be fun!
>
> Bob Green
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Don Veino via Callers <
> callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Earlier today, I resurrected a draft dance from (almost exactly) this
>> time last year which I'd put aside as probably being too crazy. In looking
>> at it again, I started wondering if it is... too crazy... and wrote up a
>> more specific description to get it across to others. The magnet people
>> show me it works, but they don't say much about how it felt. :-)
>>
>> As I'm still up due to the caffeine I drank to drive home after a gig
>> tonight, I thought I'd type this up and throw it out there for input. Is it
>> too crazy? How would you teach the A2 if you attempted it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>>
>> Demolition Derby (DRAFT) - 4 Face 4 - Don Veino 20170823 (updated
>> description 20180817)
>>
>> [starts in lines/4, so G1, L1, G2, L2]
>>
>> A1 Give & Take up/down to Gents (opposites Swing) [ends in line/4 facing
>> up/down: G1, OpL2, G2, OpL1]
>>
>> A2 "Crazy Eights" [Fig 8 in current lines/4 done a la a Mad Robin - all
>> trace path of a figure 8, equidistant rel. to Partner, whom you face
>> up/down in the other line/4]:
>> (3,1 or 4) Mad Robin CW 1/2x around opposite N you swung [G thru center
>> first], OpL1 pass in front of G1 in middle to swap ends [to OpL2, OpL1, G1,
>> G2]
>> (3,1 or 4) All Pass Same Role Trail Buddy in Fig 8 arc (same arc, but
>> opposite dir.) to trade places [G1 and OpL1 take outside path - "insides
>> out"], OpL2 pass in front of G2 in middle to swap ends [to OpL1, G2, OpL2,
>> G1]
>> (3,1 or 4) Mad Robin CCW 1/2x around opposite N [G thru center first],
>> OpL1 pass in front of G1 in middle to swap ends [to G2, G1, OpL1, OpL2]
>> (3,1 or 4) All Pass Same Role Trail Buddy in Fig 8 arc (same arc,
>> opposite dir.) to trade places [G1 and OpL1 take outside path - "insides
>> out"], OpL2 pass in front of G2 in middle to swap ends [to end in same
>> positions as start of A2: G1, OpL2, G2, OpL1]
>>
>> B1 w/Opposites Circle/4 Left 3/4x to (face & Pass Partner Right to start)
>> Weave the Ring/8 1/2x
>>
>> B2 Partner Balance (or Gypsy) and Swing, face progression
>>
>> BTW, it was this dance idea that fed what became another related dance on
>> my site, Wild Mouse: http://veino.com/blog/?p=1879 . Neither of these
>> have I dared to attempt to date.
>>
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