> Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:47:18 -0500 > From: "J L Korr" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Callers] New Year's Eve > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > <snip> > The callers and band coordinated in advance to pull this off. To build up > the energy approaching midnight, we began a four-dance contra medley soon > after 11:40, alternating the callers with each dance. The band played six > times through each of the first three dances. We then ran the final dance in > the medley as long as we needed to fill up the remaining time until 11:58... <snip> >...promenading up to the band, intros, count down, cheering, Auld Lang Syne, waltzing....
I like the "concentration of people up at the stage" idea Jeremy. Being surrounded by friends at that moment is a great thing. Thanks for mentioning it ! Bev > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:28:28 -0800 (PST) > From: Dan Pearl <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] NYE dances and ideas for the stroke of > midnight.... > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Well that brings me back... > > I was hired for a NYE dance at the Swingin Tern dance in Chatham NJ. > They were paying me well, so I felt obligated to do something a little, > um.., special. Before the big countdown, I stepped into the stage wing > and ended the dance in progress. I donned an Old Man outfit and mask, > and announced myself onto the stage. I made a few parting remarks, and > then came the big countdown. At 5 seconds to midnight, I whipped off > the old man outfit and mask, and at midnight I had transformed myself > into Baby New Year, complete with big diaper and sash proclaiming the > New Year. (This took practice.) We then launched into a waltz and > then broke for a dessert buffet. <laughing> Oh Dan ! Thanks for sharing this. That image of you is just *hilarious* ! And although these organizers are paying me exceptionally well, I just don't think that I can bring myself to do the diaper thing. Getting myself into a mermaid costume with a scallop shell bra, tight green stretchy long skirt and a long black wig for a Halloween dance once, was about as far as I'm willing to go on the "minimal clothing in public" scale ! <only exceptions being the Ashokan sauna and the Long Pond dock at Pinewoods> > Don't worry too much about the ritual. Work with the producers and just > have a fun, safe, time. Amen to that ! Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Greenleaf" <[email protected]> To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] NYE dances and ideas for the stroke of midnight.... > On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:01 PM, The Witful Turnip wrote: <Lisa's comment below hasn't hit the digest yet, which is what I receive, but since I also got it in email....> <getting people back to their original partners in Lucky Seven> > It's a bit goofy, but it works. When you get to the R&L Grand in the > A2, you just > say, "Keep going until you get your original partner, then swing!" > The inner circle gets there early and some folks just laugh and cut > across the room. Hmmm... so the version of Lucky Seven that I've got written down is different than yours. The one I have has the Grand R&L in the B1 going into a Promenade in the B2. In fact, mine doesn't have a partner swing in it at all. It has a partner dosido in the second phrase of the A2. Can you please post the version you have Lisa ? > During the mixer, people are lighthearted anyway, talking and saying > Happy New > Year to one another, so it's not about having a peak dance experience; > it's about dancing together and being a community. I absolutely agree with that, which is why I like the mixer idea. Thanks, Bev ***************************************** The Witful Turnip [email protected] "I'm 40-fucking-5, and I've got nothing to hide !" - Samantha Jones (Sex in the City) *****************************************
