27 Jun
2015
27 Jun
'15
8:35 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015, George Mercer via Callers wrote:
Not disagreeing with anything but explaining that when I tell dancers
"squares are just like contras only you have to listen" I am not so much
characterizing one or the other, but asking, even begging, the dancers to
pay attention to what the caller is calling. Many contra dancers are
notoriously bad listeners, especially experienced ones and they tend to set
an example for inexperienced dancers, good and bad. Noit listening in a
contra can lead to problems. Not listening in a square is often an outright
disaster. That's all.
...and speaking as someone who does both contra and MWSD, I'll stick
myself in the "notoriously bad listener" camp at contra dances. OTOH,
in all fairness, most contra callers are considerably more difficult to
understand than square dance callers. (Partly due to sound being
directed more at good music sound.)
I'm probably not the only person with that habit.
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