Re: Origins of Calling - trad-callers@lists.sharedweight.net

14 Aug 2017

Here's a clip from FARNE in which George Hepple and others descrbes the role of the
dancing master at dances in Northumbria in the ealrly 1900s.

http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=W0003008

http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=W0002009

It is evident that the role of 'caller' developed from traveling dancing masters
at events they held. These are described well in the Fletts long out-of-print book Step
Dancing in Lakeland. Also in the articles on traditional Irish dance written by Breandán
Breathnach.

Here is a deilightful description of what happens when dancers relocate to a venue
unfamiliair to them ...

http://www.setdance.com/archive/buckram.htm

CJB

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On Mon, 14/8/17, john(a)modernjive.com [trad-dance-callers]
&lt;trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com&gt; wrote:

 Subject: Re: [trad-dance-callers] Origins of Calling
 To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, 14 August, 2017, 13:20

       Hi Richard,
   Yes, I agree
 completely with your description.  However the words
 "directing them (when required) in the performance of
 the Dance" seem to me to imply that there may have been
 some words used, i.e. something akin to calling as we know
 it.

 Happy dancing,
 John

 John
 Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362
 http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent

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