Oops!! From my earlier comment, delete the following:
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"Your dance can be made single progression by using rights and lefts on the
1/2 diagonal ( https://aptsg.org/Dance/dances.html#RL ) , in which case
the robins move 3 places forward and 2 places back. Work out the details
with coins
Hello Maia:
Oops.. I have been referring to your dance Happy Jew Queer with a wrong name.
I apologize. I fear this was a temporary case of dyslexia, likely prompted
by my having been, just before I just before I looked up the dance, thinking
about an acquaintance who is both Jewish and
Alan:
Oops.. I indeed have been referring to Maia's dance Happy Jew Queer
incorrectly. I apologize. I suspect this was a temporary case of dyslexia,
prompted by my having been, just before I just before I looked up the dance,
thinking about an acquaintance who is both Jewish and queer.
s
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2023 1:07 PM
To: Maia McCormick
Cc: Shared Weight Contra Callers
Subject: [Callers] Re: Most difficult contras
One cycle through a double progression dance moves everybody onew place up or
down the line.
One cycle through a double progression dance moves everybody t
One cycle through a double progression dance moves everybody onew place up
or down the line.
One cycle through a double progression dance moves everybody two places up
or down the line.
In Happy QueerJjew, the left diagonal chain moves the robins 3 places and
the right diagonal chain moves them
I mean I'm not positive about your definition of a "place" but it's a
double progression so that seems to check out?
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 6:15 PM wrote:
> Hmmm... In Happy Queer Jew the robins advance four places and return two
> places, while the
Hmmm... In Happy Queer Jew the robins advance four places and return two
places, while the larks only advance two places
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:12 PM Maia McCormick via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Committing discussion necromancy because I just found this
Committing discussion necromancy because I just found this at the bottom of
my inbox.
Seconding Cary Ravitz' "Reflections", which continues to be the wonkiest
dance in my box. I've also had Chris Weiler's mixer No Use Crying Over
Spilled Milk
In Happy as a Cold Pig in Warm Mud, the allemande 1 1/2 and the 1 3/4 can
causes the excitement.I suspect emphasizing one's shadow can help a bit.
But the direction change at the end of set guarantees temporary chaos.
Happy also appears in the "MIdwest Folklore" book mentioned in my
response
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:47:08 -0400, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers wrote:
> "Would You Do It for Twenty?" by Robert Cromartie. We have discussions about
> "glossary" dances, this one is a
> "kitchen sink" dance, as in "everything you can think of but the kitchen
> sink." Contra corners,
I can use three fingers to count to seven using binary numbers... though 4
always gets me funny looks lol
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 19:15 Woody Lane via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I've called "The Magnificent Seven" many times -- at dance camps or
> advanced
As an alternative to "The Magnificent Seven", Peter Foster has written
"The Mediocre Seven", which I really enjoy.
Calls: http://pfoster.pcug.org.au/bushdanc/bother.htm#med
Animation: http://www.dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#TheMediocreSeven
Cheers
Keith Wood
Bob (Michigan) wrote:
I
I've called "The Magnificent Seven" many times -- at dance camps or advanced
dances or workshops. It's a wonderful dance, often the highlight of a session.
But this is a complex dance on many levels. The caller must know it cold and be
in front of the music at all times because lots of things
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:47:08 -0400, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers wrote:
> "Would You Do It for Twenty?" by Robert Cromartie. We have discussions about
> "glossary" dances, this one is a
> "kitchen sink" dance, as in "everything you can think of but the kitchen
> sink." Contra corners,
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:47:08 -0400, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers wrote:
> "Would You Do It for Twenty?" by Robert Cromartie. We have discussions about
> "glossary" dances, this one is a
> "kitchen sink" dance, as in "everything you can think of but the kitchen
> sink." Contra corners,
The Magnificent Seven was first called by its author, Bob Archer, at
Halsway Manor, Crowcombe, Somerset some time in the 1980's. The musicians
were Chris & Julie Dewhurst and they used the tune, "Those Magnificent Men
in Their Flying Machines". I know that because I was there! I don't
regard it
Someone wrote a dance for a Worst Contra Dance contest that was just 8
Lines of 4 Down the Hall.
That's pretty difficult.
Julian Blechner
Western Mass
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 1:47 PM Keith Elmo Eldridge via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Bob (Michigan) wrote:
> >
Bob (Michigan) wrote:
> I think the most difficult dance I have ever danced is a 7 couple double
> square with one couple in both. I unfortunately don’t remember its name.
Sounds like Bob Archer's The Magnificent Seven.
Possibly called by me at Breaking-up Thanksgiving back in 1993!
Cheers
The Hobbit
I just can't wrap by head around the end effects; there must be a key, if not a
ring, to unlock them.
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Hi Robert,
Seven Couples? Could be The Magnificent Seven:
http://www.bobarcher.org/dance/my_dances.html
More seven couple dances at
http://contrafusion.co.uk/Formations.html#14d
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney,
I think the most difficult dance I have ever danced is a 7 couple double square
with one couple in both. I unfortunately don’t remember its name.
Another one is “maybe I never will”, a triple minor by Susan Elberger. I
remember dancing it and never knowing who I was going to be dancing with
:51 AM
To: Jerome Grisanti
Cc: Michael Fuerst ; Shared Weight Contra Callers
Subject: [Callers] Re: Most difficult contras
I have a couple of answers that are not exactly on-topic, because the answer is
contextual:
Inflation Reel by Don Armstrong when attempted at a MWSD convention in Tucson
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:59:17 + (UTC), ROBERT FABINSKI via Contra Callers
wrote:
> Whitewater by Cary Ravitz is a difficult dance.
I think his "Rat Race" is more difficult.
https://www.dance.ravitz.us/dance2017.htm#rr
I called it once and it was complete chaos. Trevor Monson who was dancing
I have a couple of answers that are not exactly on-topic, because the
answer is contextual:
Inflation Reel by Don Armstrong when attempted at a MWSD convention in
Tucson. (I was dancing.)
Anything called to the Eastern-European-style band that played in Bend,
Oregon circa November of 2003. (I
I should have added that the Robert Cromartie dance I mentioned was based
on a Kathy Anderson dance.
— Jerome
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 7:47 PM Jerome Grisanti
wrote:
> "Would You Do It for Twenty?" by Robert Cromartie. We have discussions
> about "glossary" dances, this one is a "kitchen sink"
When I was a newish caller I wrote a dance called "CC & 7 With a Twist"
that had a contra corners move where every allemande on the side was 1 1/2
turns, sending different people into the center. It caused the actives to
progress four places away from each other and then brought them back
together
"Irish Stars" first appeared in the book *Midwest Folklore*, published
in1995 by the Urbana (IL) Country Dancers, in honor of Orace Johnson, one
of our group's leaders who died of a heart attack at one of our community
dances. I edited the dances in the book, had not looked at the dance in
I stand corrected. Thought better about it after sending.
Thanks,
Paul
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:31 PM wrote:
> It's Buffalo Stampede by Tom Hinds. (https://contradb.com/dances/948)
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 6:02 PM Paul Wilde wrote:
>
>> Buffalo Stampede by Don Armstrong (?)
>>
>> On
It's Buffalo Stampede by Tom Hinds. (https://contradb.com/dances/948)
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 6:02 PM Paul Wilde wrote:
> Buffalo Stampede by Don Armstrong (?)
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM ROBERT FABINSKI via Contra Callers <
> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>>
"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
"Would You Do It for Twenty?" by Robert Cromartie. We have discussions
about "glossary" dances, this one is a "kitchen sink" dance, as in
"everything you can think of but the kitchen sink." Contra corners,
petronella, diagonal hey, alternates between proper and improper.
Maybe in a workshop, on a
Two dances, very different from each other (not afraid to call, just very
reluctant):
"Irish Stars" by Orace Johnson
"Reflections" by Carey Ravitz
Woody
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Caller, Percussive Dancer
Roseburg, Oregon
On 9/25/2023 3:38 PM, Michael Fuerst via Contra
Buffalo Stampede by Don Armstrong (?)
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM ROBERT FABINSKI via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Whitewater by Cary Ravitz is a difficult dance.
>
> bob...@aol.com
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 6:38 PM, Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers
>
Whitewater by Cary Ravitz is a difficult dance.
bob...@aol.com
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 6:38 PM, Michael Fuerst via Contra
Callers wrote: What are the most
difficult contras (improper, proper, indecent or becket) that you have danced,
have called, and remain afraid to call?
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