10 Apr
2016
10 Apr
'16
2:09 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016, James Saxe via Callers wrote:
The sort of stuff I'm talking about strikes me as more suited for
a challenging session at a dance camp/weekend than for a regular
evening dance--and even more so now than at the time of Ted's visits
to California 25-30 years ago, on account of the generally lower
average familiarity of contras dancers with squares. Indeed, if
someone were calling at the kind of dance camp/weekend where the
acceptable number of squares to call is quite limited, I'd hope they'd
lean towards squares that they were confident they could put across
without stressing the dancers' readiness to remain cheerful in the
face of confusion.
Note that the vast majority of MWSD dancers would have even more
difficulty. I'm at the Queer Contra Dance Camp this weekend, and a *lot*
of us are happily swapping gender roles in the middle of the dance
(including a dance last night that including a Right & Left Grand -- yes,
it was a 4x4). Contrariwise, relatively few square dancers these days
can manage to dance to the music.
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