Hey Sue (and other community dance callers),
Would you mind posting the content of some of these
dances
here? The quadrille sounds very interesting. I've
been
asked to call a couple of barn dances too, and keep
seeing
references to these dances, but don't have access to
the
books they're printed in.
Thank you!!
Tina
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:48:46 -0500
From: Sue Robishaw <[email protected]>
Subject: [Callers] Beginner Contras
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Hi,
We are sadly lacking in contra in my neck
of the
world, and I don't
have the experience of others on the list (who
I'm
thoroughly enjoying
learning from), but I've taught a few easy ones
to our
IFD group to
introduce the idea, and these worked well (I
think
they were all from
the New England Dancing Masters "Chimes of
Dunkirk"
book:
Jefferson & Liberty
Haste to the Wedding
Broken Sixpence
A non-contra easy dance that's gone over well
with
both our IFDers and
mixed public is the quadrille "The Carding"
from
Dudley Laufman's
"Sweets of May". Lively and you don't need even
numbers of couples as
in a square.
Snowy Cheers,
Sue Robishaw
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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land,
and to live well.
And in behaving respectfully toward all that
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contains, it is
possible to imagine a stifling ignorance
falling away
from us."
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References
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