Interesting!
Sorry to nitpick, but how did the B2 go? It appears there are 12 counts in
the first half of B2 (allemande 1 1/2 = 12 counts). Are you encouraging
them just to cheat in the extra beats by doing the allemandes faster? Did
that create the scrambles?
--jh--
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at
Angela, this is brilliant!
--jh--
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM Angela DeCarlis via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Love the title, Joseph!!! I wrote a dance in 2016 with similar celestial
> themes and figures for my friend and longtime contra, ECD, and waltz
And, sorry, that should have been...
--jh--
Joe Harrington
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Organizer, Orlando Contra Dance
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On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM Joe Harrington
wrote:
> I've given a lot
I've given a lot of thought to obituary dances recently, as we've had so
many...Kim, Christine, now Tony...and, well, we're a graying community
(though Christine proved you don't have to be to leave this earth). Many
of us have danced a silent contra in memory at dance camps with a certain
ensors in all 3
>>> axes (plus a rotational sensor) does anyone know how much such an apparatus
>>> would cost to build?
>>>
>>> Now that I think about 3 axis force sensors, i wonder if there's much
>>> lateral or vertical force in the connectio
>
> Now that I think about 3 axis force sensors, i wonder if there's much
> lateral or vertical force in the connection point and whether I'd there is
> that feels bad in some natural way.
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 13:37 Joe Harrington via Contra Callers <
> contracallers
ck with the
>>>> traditional ballroom figure.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 22:33 Jeff Kaufman via Contra Callers <
>>>> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "At the time, it almost never
dancing both roles, around 2005, I remember initially
>>> doing it as you said, with gender-neutral swings with the gents I
>>> encountered. I remember being surprised sometime around 2006-2007 when I
>>> ran into a few guys dancing switch who indicated they wanted to do t
I love the barrel hold, but some of my partners have reacted in a way that
indicated it was too intimate for them. This is especially true if I have
to lean over to do it, as that puts my face pretty close to theirs (I'm
pretty tall). It's also difficult to do without frontal contact if one or
My dance (Orlando) gets around 20-25 people, maybe 1/3 - 1/2 new each
week. Also, around 2/3 are women. So, it isn't possible for us to dance
without a bunch of role swapping. Even though I have them partner up in the
workshop using a scatter mixer, so there is plenty of same-gender
partnering
What’s the range you can access manually?
—jh—
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 4:12 AM Robert Matson via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> The unit has a display which shows the frequencies being used by the
> microphones. The display shows that our mics are using:
>
I'm using a nice little wireless thing I bought for like $50. Sound quality
is great...except when it isn't. After working fine for a while, the sound
gets dirty and then has dropouts until you power-cycle the headset. It has
USB-charged batteries.
Does your unit have any trouble like that?
My spouse is an ASL interpreter and long-time contra and swing dancer, so
what follows are my thoughts informed by her experience.
I'm less concerned about deafness than the mobility and coordination issues
we get all the time. Given that several deaf dancers have been on Dancing
with the Stars
Thanks for this thread! My group is tired of me bailing out to a small
collection of trivial contras (Airpants, Midwest Folklore...).
How about the easiest dance *that experienced dancers don't mind dancing*?
I have always disliked the "full washing machine" of circle left, circle
right, star
Complexity Swing by Roni Wiener, anyone?
https://www.sundragonrising.com/contra.html#Complexity_Swing
--jh--
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 3:51 PM Neal Schlein via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> I apologize for getting the attribution wrong – – I couldn’t
The Tempo Question...enough to start religious wars, so please let's tread
lightly in replies! There are regional/style, complexity, and agility
components. Dances in the northeastern US, simple dances called to
non-beginners, and dances with more agile dancers tend to go faster.
These are
dea that wedding guests will have any interest in
> dancing beyond this event. Keep things VERY simple. You can do an hour with
> dances containing only allemandes, do-si-dos, circles and promenades. Maybe
> a modified swing/2-hand turn.
>
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2023, 3:53 PM Joe Har
Any advice for calling weddings? I've been asked to call my first one and I
don't see a lot of wedding-specific advice online. What do you ask them in
advance, how do you approach it, what are good dances to call?
I'm assuming that a workshop is impractical, so it's barn dances and maybe
working
Well, there's always this one...
https://contradb.com/dances/355
I know, someone is going to say they are sensitive about height. It's a
contra mixer nonetheless. When it stops mixing, it's over.
I actually start all my workshops with Accretion Reel (Chris Page), because
the "scatter and find
> (A search for the words, enclosed in quotes, revealed the source)
I'm sure anyone curious did the same. Was it really relevant or beneficial
to the discussion to name them publicly? I appreciate it when dances post
their internal documents so I can study them, as a new organizer of a new
I was surprised to discover, like maybe two decades ago, that the caller
guidelines for a certain very well known dance requested: "A good amount of
neighbor interaction, especially early in the evening. The dancers prefer
no more than two dances without neighbor swings." Those words are still
In the original choreo, for symmetry and styling, I'm looking for something
other than just walking by your neighbor. You could:
chain with your neighbor to your partner - why not, you just did a
mixed-role CC!
allemande-right halfway, which is just a high-five or a high-hands chain,
but that
Flurry, NEFFA, Falcon Ridge? Pinewoods weeks? Peterborough Snowball isn't
a weekend, but has as much dancing as one.
But, Julian is right that many dances in New England don't have their own
weekend. Many of the larger dances elsewhere have one or even more
weekend-long events a year, which
These days it's smart to have them sign a waiver (there are occasional
lawsuits; they're not well publicized). You can get what you need in a
waiver and it's common to do that (e.g., at conferences). My waiver is
very short and says three things in plain English (paraphrasing, as a
lawyer has
I've been calling less than a year, so I'm still learning. One problem I
have is that, when looking at a written-out dance, I'm consistently
underestimating the difficulty for newbies. My group is about 50% newbies
every week, and it isn't large, usually about 20 dancers at peak. Last
week, I
Back to the terms, I wanted to relate an experiment I did with the terms,
because I found something different from what I was told I would find. I'm
not advocating a re-opening of the terms can of worms, but I think the
experiment sheds some light on why we think as we do about the terms, and
on
Bob Isaacs calls a contra dance with a fun chase figure at the end of some
longer multisession gigs. The ones chase around the twos with the first
going around both twos and the second going around one, reversing the order
of the ones on the return leg of the chase. They do this twice in 16 beats
Newbie question: Why is it called a "Sicilian" circle?
While certain dances came from long ago with that label, wouldn't many/most
contras work, as long as the circle isn't too small and the 1s and 2s are
comparably active?
--jh--
On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 4:39 PM Amy Cann via Contra Callers <
;
>>> I think a demonstration of contra dance on campus might be helpful. Do
>>> it in a public area, invite other clubs/groups to come watch. You wouldn't
>>> need to do a lesson, but could point out how the progression works, how
>>> contra is a very comm
g callers like to avoid.
> What about throwing in some circle mixers to learn terminology, only
> remove the progression and dance it as a keeper? Or throw in some whole-set
> dances like you get at community dances, which often don't progress the way
> contras do.
>
> Meg
>
> On
[I don't know why, but the top paragraph and a half of my message somehow
came through white on white in both my email readers, so I'm resending,]
We had an interesting and challenging situation come up at Contra Knights,
the UCF student contra club, last night. I’m interested in your thoughts
, I can check everything at once.
>>
>> Dances I do a lot are tattered.
>> Dances I do rarely are more pristine.
>>
>> "Roll In the Hey" has a coffee stain.
>> "The Snow Dance" is missing a chunk I tore off to give someone my phone
>> nu
The short version of this post is, how should I organize my dances? But,
I'm sure if I ask that, the thread will have 100 replies and lots of
confusion. My search of the list archives and web were surprisingly spotty
on this question, with lots of anecdotes and no summary or comparison. And
I'm
Is it a coincidence that the move to more swings and the disappearance of
contra corners happened simultaneously? Did we replace the energy of
corners with that of swings? While I find swinging more fun than corners
for a single instance, doing just one or the other isn't as good as doing
both in
I do #3, in a roundabout way. They try both sides in two different
swing-teaching dances that Sara and I wrote together. Then, I tell them
they can pick either side and it might be good to do the first several
dances from the same side, but it's good to know both, in case the options
are to
As a new caller to a new college dance series, I'm particularly interested
in collecting a bunch of connected, simple dances that feature ONE advanced
move. We get lots of newbies every night, often 30% or more. The dancers
who come regularly are getting tired of simple dances. This would be a
Short lines forward and back! :-)
—jh—
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:02 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi, Seth and all… Two points:
>
>
>
> 1. I’m aware that a lot of folks use “long lines” as shorthand for “long
> lines forward and back.” It
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