For those who don't know Michael, he specializes in writing and calling
these kinds of dances.
When he calls at a dance weekend, it's always an adventure, and amazingly
enough the dances actually work!
[Michael, I still remember that dance you called at Kimmswick that included
a right-and-left
"Happy as a Cold Pig in Warm Mud" y Mike Boerschig doesn't seem like it
would be very difficult when you read the card, but it is amazing how many
creative ways it can go wrong. There is usually at least one star for five
somewhere in the line at the same time there's a star for three going on
Jeff says:
I'll bite that bullet: callers generally shouldn't be calling a dolphin hey
at a regular evening dance.
And Amy says:
It always helps to read the room first. Got a bunch of beginners? Call
simpler dances, at least the first half. Explain them well. Don't call a
complicated move that
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 3:11 AM Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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>
dancers should need to understand the names of a dozen or so basic figures
> (such as F, allemande, promenade, star, chain, right and left, circle,
> shoulders round, hey, and
Ants Marching by Ron T. Blechner. One of my favorite dances to call or to
dance: https://contradances.tumblr.com/post/10510984149/ants-marching
Dale
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:16 PM Colin Hume via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 11:38:41
A minor point, but one which seems to noticeably improve how contra dancers
react to a square:
After the room has achieved hands-four for the contra dance immediately
before the square, but before the walk through for that dance I announce
"The dance after this one will be a square." This does a
I sing and play music wearing a mask -- often in retirement homes so a
mask is not optional. I've had no problems with a standard cloth mask, but
I just ordered one of these to see if it works as advertised:
https://vocaleasemask.com/
Dale
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:07 AM Don Veino via Contra
Hope to see you
>> then!
>>
>> Jean
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2019, at 8:57 AM, Amy Wimmer via Contra Callers <
>> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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>> Jean wrote it to celebrate her 70th birthday. 70 trips around the sun.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25
I called this last night at Childgrove in Saint Louis. Dancers seemed
pleased, but I got some questions about the title -- I think some of them
heard 70 Libra Sons and were imagining a bunch of boys born in October.
Where did the name come from?
Dale
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:39 PM
I called this last night at Childgrove in Saint Louis. There were lots of
positive comments from the dancers, but a couple of them said something
like "You should warn us how busy the end of the dance is. Unless
everybody really boogied we were late to the wavy line."
Thanks, Ron. Another
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