On 2024-03-30 11:15, Bob Morgan via Contra Callers wrote:
Total Equality by Andrew Swain is pretty much built for role chaos
even if you try to avoid it.
There's a 28 bar dance called Bar Crawl that is meant to be danced to
32 bar tunes.
Bob
Is Total Equality the 3 birds (magpies in the
rt’s book The
Country Dance Club Book (cambridgefolk.org.uk) is excellent) so in an emergency
I can call a programme using dances I know well.
From: Mo via Contra Callers
Sent: 01 January 2024 15:38
To: Shared Weight Contra Callers
Subject: [Callers] Re: Practicing dances
It depends.
For a
It depends.
For a club programme I start about a week ahead (to allow for failing
concentration). Sort out a varied programme with plenty options if I need an
easier dance or numbers are a problem (I don’t always call longways or contras,
a mix of shapes and styles)
If it’s a dance I don’t
Thanks for the link. We usually finish our club nights with a circle mixer and
that will make a change.
I’ve got rather stuck on Artful Dodger recently. Anyone know who wrote it. I
wrote that down at a dance ages ago when I was less fussy about details.
A1 Forward and back twice
A2 do-ce-do
But Circassian circle (which I agree is a useful dance to end the evening)
doesn’t have an ocean wave.
From: Alan J Rosenthal via Contra Callers
Sent: 19 November 2023 18:46
To: Shared Weight Contra Callers
Subject: [Callers] Re: Favorite One Night Stand Dances
>I also called a Circle Mixer
I have noticed that this part of Shared Weight work differently from e.g. ECD
I see some messages twice, others not at all except as a reply.
I deduce that you need to use Reply to all, or it just goes to whoever posted
last
From: Mo via Contra Callers
Sent: 12 October 2023 12:12
Cc: Shared
I like to include a dip & Dive dance or a strip the Willow if the crowd look as
if they can cope. A tiny bit of challenge and a great feeling when they ‘get it’
Not sure if I’ve posted my version of Waves of Tory. At ONS there is always at
least 1 couple who think that as they are 1s they should
Some good ideas in this thread
I like the drawbridge.
I use Galopde as a first dance and ask for well phrased music (with a
2bar,2bar,4bar feel to the A e.g. Winster Gallop) to get people dancing to the
music. Though other dances particularly those with a Dip and Dive or Strip the
Willow I’ll
There are (mainly UK?)Facebooks groups with knowledge about this as you don’t
seem to be getting much here.
(2) Callers' Forum | Facebook
(2) Double Progress (where everybody's in all of the time) | Groups | Facebook
From: Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers
Sent: 09 October 2023 07:32
To:
A suggestion I was given for groups where hand holding was not possible for
religious reasons was holding ribbons or hankies
From: Bree Kalb via Contra Callers
Sent: 08 October 2023 02:38
To: Shared Weight Contra Callers
Subject: [Callers] Teaching 'contra' to adults with various developmental
I’ll second those two.
And add Two Birthdays and an Anniversary by Rhodri Davies.
This is a Becket dance with a swing with your shadow. The end effects can
confuse if neutral couples change sides too soon. Stand improper at the top,
proper at the bottom, for A1 &2. Change sides after the Shadow
Thinking all dances are 32 bars might be less of a problem in the UK since
clubs programme a mixture, not just contra. Different styles, varying lengths
From: Bill Olson via Contra Callers
Sent: 31 July 2023 18:23
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net; Graham Knight
Cc: Joseph Erhard-Hudson
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