A few of the callers around Chicago have one or two triplets in their
repertoire. Like the Tulsa dance Louise described, the dance I help run
is often rather thin at the beginning and end, If memory serves me,
Ted's #5 and #24 are the most frequently called. I think I've also done
triplets at one or two weekends, perhaps Squirrel Moon. The last time
we did one (can't remember which), we had some odd number of people that
didn't lend itself to a square, so after one or two times through the
triplet, the loose individuals started cutting in and everyone got to
dance.
Dave Harding
On 8/20/2012 2:34 PM, Kalia Kliban wrote:
Hi all
I just encountered a triplet in the wild for the first time (they
don't get called much around here, and I've been out of the dancing
loop for a bit) at our Santa Rosa (CA) contra last Friday. It was
Ted's Triplet #24. Apparently wild cheering is traditional when one
of Ted Triplets is announced?
As an English dancer, I found it to be a pretty simple and
straightforward dance and a nice break from loads o' longways, but the
contra dancers all around me were falling to bits, apparently
completely flummoxed by the small sets.
How often do triplets show up in programs where you dance? How often,
and in what sorts of settings, do you call them? What do you do
differently to teach them, to help contra dancers with the unusual
formation? They seem like useful dances, both for a change of pace
and for those dreaded dinky crowds, but as I mentioned, this was my
first time encountering one in years of dancing. Are they more common
on the East Coast?
Kalia
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