Re: [Callers] Favorite mixers?

[Jack Mitchell]

Two of my favorites are:

*Esmerelda's Revenge* -- Beth Parkes Mixer

*A1*Forward and Back
All go forward, gents back up (ladies stay in the middle)
to have a ring of ladies inside the ring of gents

*A2*Ladies turn Left, Gents turn Right
single file Promenade around the ring
Everyone turn back
look for your partner -- last one you swung

*B1*P DsD
N Alle L 1x

*B2*Pass P**by**R
Swing the next (new Partner)


*Ease About Mixer *-- Gene Hibert (var. by Cis Hinkle)Mixer

*A1*B

*A2*Promenade
As a couple swoop into center and back

*B1*Ladies weave the ring -- in front, behind, between
Ring forward and back

*B2*Gents weave the ring -- in front, behind, between
Original P Alle L 1½ to new partner
Note: Once you meet your original Partner, look past them 
to see who your new partner is.  For some reason there is frequent 
disorientation when getting out of the allemande and trying to find new 
partner**




On 9/26/2013 6:47 PM, Kalia Kliban wrote:
I'd love to add a few more mixers to my repertoire.  Which ones do you 
like for beginning groups or for early in the evening?  And do you 
have some that more advanced groups can enjoy?


Kalia
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Re: [Callers] Favorite mixers?

[Aahz Maruch]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote:
>
> I'd love to add a few more mixers to my repertoire.  Which ones do
> you like for beginning groups or for early in the evening?  And do
> you have some that more advanced groups can enjoy?

I'm always partial to La Bastringue.  I don't know any names off the top
of my head, but I like mixers that involve couples running around to find
another couple.
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Re: [Callers] norms/ethics of choreography sharing

[tavi merrill]

Of course, the ultimate question with regarding to calling a CC BY-NC dance
at a paid event: is it in fact noncommercial use? What would describe
'commercial use' of a contra sequence, other than republishing it? (It is
my understanding the rich tradition of collecting dances from performers
and caller friends would fall under SA, but i'd require legal verification
of that before i chose to advocate adding specific protections to
choreography.) (p.s. while copyright/left exists to provide an incentive
for creatives to create, i highly doubt that the people who write
contradances require that incentivization for dance composition, or that
there is significant economic gain to be had in the publication of contra
dances...)

also REALLY sorry i couldn't delete the quoted text, trackpad button isn't
working to cut & paste atm

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> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:57:47 -0700
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> In light of the earlier discussion about both double-progression and
> dances with neighbor swing that don't have circle left 3/4, I wrote the
> following.  I'd first like to double-check that this doesn't already
> exist under some other name, nor does the name exist for some other
> dance; I'd also like feedback on the choreography.
>
> Orange You Glad We Met?
>
> Becket
>
> A1
> Men L allemande 1/2 (4)
> Neighbor B (12)
>
> A2
> L star 1/2 to prev neighbor (6)
> R star full to current neighbor (10)
>
> B1
> Pass thru current neighbor to new neighbor (4)
> PROGRESSION
> End in wave
> Balance wave (4)
> Square thru 3.5 (8)
>
> B2
> Partner B (16)
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> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:09:02 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [Callers] Orange You Glad We Met?
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> Ignore this, I hate when I hit "send" and immediately realize there's a
> major choreography boo-boo...
>
> (The square thru doesn't work.)
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013, Aahz wrote:
> >
> > In light of the earlier discussion about both double-progression and
> > dances with neighbor swing that don't have circle left 3/4, I wrote the
> > following.  I'd first like to double-check that this doesn't already
> > exist under some other name, nor does the name exist for some other
> > dance; I'd also like feedback on the choreography.
> >
> > Orange You Glad We Met?
> >
> > Becket
> >
> > A1
> > Men L allemande 1/2 (4)
> > Neighbor B (12)
> >
> > A2
> > L star 1/2 to prev neighbor (6)
> > R star full to current neighbor (10)
> >
> > B1
> > Pass thru current neighbor to new neighbor (4)
> > PROGRESSION
> > End in wave
> > Balance wave (4)
> > Square thru 3.5 (8)
> >
> > B2
> > Partner B (16)
> > --
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> http://rule6.info/
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Re: [Callers] Favorite mixers?

[Joseph Kwiatkowski]

http://www.maxellute.net/ramapo.html

Melanie Axel-Lute's "The Ramapo Romp"   It's easy, it's silly, it's fun 
and it gives everyone a chance to practice
balance and swing with lots of different partners, just like those 
learn-to-dance seminars.  Beginners like it

'cause it's fun; experienced dancers enjoy the balance and long swing.

Joe Kwiatkowski


On 9/26/2013 6:47 PM, Kalia Kliban wrote:
I'd love to add a few more mixers to my repertoire.  Which ones do you 
like for beginning groups or for early in the evening?  And do you 
have some that more advanced groups can enjoy?


Kalia
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Re: [Callers] See Saw (was Re: Code's Compiling)

[Aahz Maruch]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013, James Saxe wrote:
>
> So it appears from the above that CALLERLAB has officially deprecated
> use of "See Saw" to mean a left shoulder Dosado for ten years (as of
> tomorrow).  I don't have a copy of the CALLERLAB Basic/Mainstream
> definitions from just before that time, but it seems clear that the
> prescribed for "See Saw" would have been (left) gypsy-like in some
> cases and (left) dosado-like in others.
>
> Ten years may seem like a long time to younger members of this list,
> and to people who first took MWSD lessons within the last ten years,
> it may seem like the definitions they learned describe the way things
> were from time immemorial.  But by 2003 MWSD had already substantially
> diverged from "traditional" SD for forty years or so.

Well, I certainly appreciate the history lesson.  Memory is unreliable,
of course, but I don't remember ever doing See Saw in MWSD as a left
dosado, starting in 1986 at UCDavis nor the Stanford Quads a year later
(just to nail down the timing and locations more precisely).  From what
I can tell, Callerlab seems to be more in the descriptivist camp than
prescriptivist, so almost certainly the definitional changes you describe
followed majority practice that started earlier.

If anyone's curious, I can do more digging into people's memories on the
MWSD side.
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