Re: [Callers] Easy and Fun
Hi Rickey, This mixer would go over well. Star Crazy - scatter mixer but start with circles of 3 couples (variation of dances here http://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/1841/ ) A1(3 couples) Circle Left, Circle Right (keep moving same way for …) A2Left hands across for Left hand star, right hands across for Right hand star B1(starting with lowest hands), Gents pull ladies out of the star and swing B2Scatter promenade (and look for 2 more couples) notes: B1: For ONS can do right arm or elbow swings. B2: The requirement for 3 couples is only 'recommended', let circles of any size form, and let the dancers sort out the fun when the circles have an even number of couples Cheers, Bill
Re: [Callers] Report Back: Hello and a few questions...
Hi Don, Good job. Concise quick walk thru on the Butter video and pulled back nicely with the prompting when they got it. Cheers, Bill
Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
good question Get in 4 face 4 so you recognize the other couple in your line then take traditional hands 4 in regular contra lines then turn 1/4 turn to Becket Mac From: Becky Nankivell To: call...@sharedweight.net Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? Below is the post with the dance. My question: what consitutes "4-face-4 becket formation"?? ~ Becky Nankivell Title: Major Hey Author: Erik Hoffman Formation: 4-face-4, becket A1: Circle Left 3/4, pass through; New Neighbor Swing A2: Long Lines; Men allemande Left 1 1/2 (to a line of people across both, sets, partners facing, men back-to-back) B1: Balance, slide right (a la Rory O'More); balance left, slide left (a la Rory O'More) B2: face partner, use right hand to start 1/2 hey for 8 (16)** C1: partner balance and swing David (G), you are correct. The only difference between what Tom and Gaye called are the B1 - the Rory O'More. In teaching this dance, people need to remember that when they start they hey they are passing their partner by the right and going opposite directions from their partner -- though the next-to-the-outside two people will immediately 'bounce' off the ends and effectively follow their partners. If you end up having two major sets (lines) of four-face-four, you need to keep them widely separately. People have a tendency to keep hey-ing across 16 people. Fun, but not necessarily this dance. Seth Tepfer Director of Administrative Computing Oxford College of Emory University seth.tepfer at emory.edu 770-784-8487 -- Message: 9 Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:14:33 -0500 From: Chris Page To: "Caller's discussion list" Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Hanny Budnick wrote: > I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you > can fill in the considerable gaps, please: > 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. > 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance > ? across the whole set > 3) there's a hey for all eight in it > Your turn > Thanks, Hanny "Major Hey" by Erik Hoffman? It also has Rory o' More slides in it, and is 40 bars. Though I think it's a Becket 4-face-4. -Chris Page San Diego ___ Callers mailing list call...@sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
[Callers] Reply to Luke Donforth in regard to dip and dive
In regard to the dip and dive dances, Here's one that we in Wendy Graham's dance writing class at Augusta Dance week last summer-- Wendy, Hilton Baxter, Pamela Moe, Susannah Gal, and I-- wrote. It's on Wendy's web site http://www.folkmads.org/wendy_dancetext.html. The imagery the class worked with was mountains, tunnels, and rivers.However, I think it might capture the idea of an ambivalent ground hog, ducking in and out, not sure whether he/she saw its shadow or not.The rest of the dance might imply that the shadow was not seen, since it continued, possibly as a rite of spring. Augusta ReelimproperWendy Graham's dance writing class, August, 2011 A1:Arches ( #2s arch, #1s duck thru, #1s arch, #2s duck back thru);Neighbor swing A2:Gents pull by with left hand to partner, swing. B1:Women step forward to long wavy line, balance; allemande left about three fourths around to face partner, gypsy partner and return to place B2:Gents step forward to long wavy line, balance; do-si-do once and a half to progressed position.(The women need to face in the progressed direction, ready to join hands with partner as he approaches) Others are:Ellen's Green Jig (Roy Dommett); Ashokan Hello (Tony Parkes); and Jefferson and Lincoln (Seth Tepfer) I've used a proper Tunnel Dance also. A1: Forward and back, pass thru across and turn around A2: ditto, to return to original side B1: All except top couple make an arch with partner; top couple chassez down to the end; Top Woman dances back up thru the tunnel as Top Gent dances back up the outside B2: Top Gent dances down thru the tunnel as Top Woman dances down the outside; All swing partners. Walter
Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
Below is the post with the dance. My question: what consitutes "4-face-4 becket formation"?? ~ Becky Nankivell Title: Major Hey Author: Erik Hoffman Formation: 4-face-4, becket A1: Circle Left 3/4, pass through; New Neighbor Swing A2: Long Lines; Men allemande Left 1 1/2 (to a line of people across both, sets, partners facing, men back-to-back) B1: Balance, slide right (a la Rory O'More); balance left, slide left (a la Rory O'More) B2: face partner, use right hand to start 1/2 hey for 8 (16)** C1: partner balance and swing David (G), you are correct. The only difference between what Tom and Gaye called are the B1 - the Rory O'More. In teaching this dance, people need to remember that when they start they hey they are passing their partner by the right and going opposite directions from their partner -- though the next-to-the-outside two people will immediately 'bounce' off the ends and effectively follow their partners. If you end up having two major sets (lines) of four-face-four, you need to keep them widely separately. People have a tendency to keep hey-ing across 16 people. Fun, but not necessarily this dance. Seth Tepfer Director of Administrative Computing Oxford College of Emory University seth.tepfer at emory.edu 770-784-8487 -- Message: 9 List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:14:33 -0500 From: Chris Page To: "Caller's discussion list" Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Hanny Budnick wrote: > I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you > can fill in the considerable gaps, please: > 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. > 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance > ? across the whole set > 3) there's a hey for all eight in it > Your turn > Thanks, Hanny "Major Hey" by Erik Hoffman? It also has Rory o' More slides in it, and is 40 bars. Though I think it's a Becket 4-face-4. -Chris Page San Diego
Re: [Callers] Easy and Fun
On 12/26/2011 10:03 AM, hol...@comcast.net wrote:
I am about to call a dance the character of which has changed from what I
expected and I need some easy dances. I had harder material planned and
while I do have some material that is probably easy enough, I am not sure
that it is. The dance is at a college. It is for college students only,
pssibly only students from that college, and we are now hoping for a large
contingent of beginers; perhaps mostly beginners. Have you any expereince
with a similar situation? I am thinking along the lines of ONS dances,
although if we made a few into regulars for the regular dance there that
would be great. So: "no-partner" dances, mixers (I have January Mixer - a
great one), Set dances ("Once and to the bottoms") ...
We intend to have a blast!
I did a freshman orientation day dance for a few years at a nearby
college and it usually worked well to use most of my usual ONS program.
I used several of the wholeset dances such as Galopede and Cumberland
Reel and some easy circle mixers (300 18 year olds in a giant circle).
Near the end of the dance I was able to introduce a couple of easy
contras with swings, but that would need to be decided based on how
things go the rest of the evening. As a rule I limit the dances for
these kinds of events to figures where the name of the figure pretty
much describes how to do it. For example circles, stars, hand turns
(left, right and two hand) and lines of various kinds. My impression is
that groups of college kids like these learn things pretty fast and are
plenty active, so you shouldn't have to simplify things very much.
Jonathan
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Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
That sounds like the one you are looking for. I have called this many times. The one modification I have been making lately is to take the balance out of the C1 part. The hey for 8 is something different for most dancers and they seem to have trouble finishing it on time. Those who do get to their partner on time just get a longer swing A really good dance! Mac From: Bree Kalb To: Caller's discussion list Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? Might be Major Hey by Erik Hoffman. Here's a link to a previous discussion and description on this list. http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/2007-December/001112.html Bree Kalb -Original Message- From: Hanny Budnick Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 11:01 AM To: call...@sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you can fill in the considerable gaps, please: 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance across the whole set 3) there's a hey for all eight in it Your turn Thanks, Hanny ___ Callers mailing list call...@sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers ___ Callers mailing list call...@sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
Re: [Callers] Easy and Fun
Something to check on.. depends on the day of the week, and is there a
potential that students have been drinking. Changes the dance.
& go with the normal stuff.. no need to dumb it down, after all they
asked you to call a contra.. I assume,
-don
On 12/26/11, hol...@comcast.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am about to call a dance the character of which has changed from what I
> expected and I need some easy dances. I had harder material planned and
> while I do have some material that is probably easy enough, I am not sure
> that it is. The dance is at a college. It is for college students only,
> pssibly only students from that college, and we are now hoping for a large
> contingent of beginers; perhaps mostly beginners. Have you any expereince
> with a similar situation? I am thinking along the lines of ONS dances,
> although if we made a few into regulars for the regular dance there that
> would be great. So: "no-partner" dances, mixers (I have January Mixer - a
> great one), Set dances ("Once and to the bottoms") ...
> We intend to have a blast!
> Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH
>
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Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
Might be Major Hey by Erik Hoffman. Here's a link to a previous discussion and description on this list. http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/2007-December/001112.html Bree Kalb -Original Message- From: Hanny Budnick Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 11:01 AM To: call...@sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit? I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you can fill in the considerable gaps, please: 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance across the whole set 3) there's a hey for all eight in it Your turn Thanks, Hanny ___ Callers mailing list call...@sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Hanny Budnick wrote: > I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you > can fill in the considerable gaps, please: > 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. > 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance > across the whole set > 3) there's a hey for all eight in it > Your turn > Thanks, Hanny "Major Hey" by Erik Hoffman? It also has Rory o' More slides in it, and is 40 bars. Though I think it's a Becket 4-face-4. -Chris Page San Diego
[Callers] Easy and Fun
Hi all,
I am about to call a dance the character of which has changed from what I
expected and I need some easy dances. I had harder material planned and
while I do have some material that is probably easy enough, I am not sure
that it is. The dance is at a college. It is for college students only,
pssibly only students from that college, and we are now hoping for a large
contingent of beginers; perhaps mostly beginners. Have you any expereince
with a similar situation? I am thinking along the lines of ONS dances,
although if we made a few into regulars for the regular dance there that
would be great. So: "no-partner" dances, mixers (I have January Mixer - a
great one), Set dances ("Once and to the bottoms") ...
We intend to have a blast!
Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH
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[Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one of you can fill in the considerable gaps, please: 1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'. 2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a double dance across the whole set 3) there's a hey for all eight in it Your turn Thanks, Hanny
Re: [Callers] Shadow Dances?
> Perhaps with that in mind Luke, if you are going to have a number of > shadow dances, let the interaction with the shadow be different in each > dance: one a swing, the next allemandes, the next a gypsy, a do si do, what > have you. Sounds fun. Wish I could be there. :) > Andrea > > A good idea Andrea. I hadn't planned on putting in more than two shadow dances in an evening anyway, but even at two I think varying the shadow interaction is the way to do it. -- Luke Donforth luke.donfo...@gmail.com www.lukedonev.com
Re: [Callers] Groundhog day
The applicability of shadow dances notwithstanding, I have also used tunnel > dances and dances with a dip and dive progression in honor of the other > piece of the tradition, namely, coming out of the hole to greet the > whatever. > Walter > A nice additional twist, Walter. Do you have favorites for that? I wonder if there are any dip & dives that also have shadows...? And now I'm contemplating a double-length (128 bar) dance where you meet your shadow only every other time... such ways lie madness and sleepless night choreographing dances that never get called... Thanks though, I like the dip and dive idea. -- Luke Donforth luke.donfo...@gmail.com www.lukedonev.com
[Callers] Groundhog day
The applicability of shadow dances notwithstanding, I have also used tunnel dances and dances with a dip and dive progression in honor of the other piece of the tradition, namely, coming out of the hole to greet the whatever. Walter
Re: [Callers] Report Back: Hello and a few questions...
Don - Sounds as if you did a great job - congratulations! On 26/12/2011 07:33, Don Veino wrote: I now have better card notes for both. That's so important - there are callers who always cause confusion at some point in some dance but never change their card! Colin Hume E-mail: co...@colinhume.com Website: http://www.colinhume.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4702 - Release Date: 12/25/11
[Callers] Report Back: Hello and a few questions...
Hi, I realize I owed a report back on my first gig experience. In the simplest summary, it went great. I had planned a program of more basic, very connected dances based upon the crowd I was expecting. It turned out that we had zero newbies and kept most of the crowd from the start right through to the end, which made me want to stretch the material in the second half. I ended up pulling up a few cards I'd prepped for another venue, and modified a bit for better connection/orientation (eg: in *A Rare Bird* making the pass bys into pull bys, gypsy to allemande, etc.) and all went well. To the best of my recollection, my program was: Alamo Intro - Circle - Al Green Get Me Going - DI - Lisa Greenleaf Broken Transcription - DI - Don Veino (yet another variant on Broken Sixpence) Polymorphous' Reel - DI - Christine Hale (dance written in honor of the prior incarnation of the band, request by organizer) You're Among Friends - DI - Bob Isaacs Butter - Becket - Gene Hubert (my video of this night's walk-through and dance at http://youtu.be/pqSoOvu2wI0 ) --- Nail That Catfish To The Tree - DI - Walter Davies [+Bob Dalsemer] (unfortunately, tune was not in the band's portfolio) Special Delivery - Becket - Nell Wright Redbeard Reel - Becket - Bob Isaacs (written for dancers that were present) A Rare Bird - DI - Bob Isaacs, var: Lisa Greenleaf, plus mods on the fly by me The Big Easy - DI - Becky Hill I had two points of trickiness in my teaching. In Special Delivery, my prep notes were unclear about whether the B2 L Chain was across or on diagonal so I taught it straight across then figured it out in the walkthrough it was diagonal. In Rare Bird, I had not refined my language enough in prep to clearly describe the current N pull by coming out of the LH Star at the bottom of the B2, resulting in me having to talk more than I planned and run through a second time to get it across. I now have better card notes for both. Thanks for the tips and info from this list! I put a bunch of it to good use and hope to apply more soon. I got good feedback from several dancers, had fun with the band, and the organizer was very happy (and has invited me back). -Don
