[Callers] Need caller this Sunday, 45min. outdoor family dance part of Harvest Fest

[Amy Cann via Callers]

at The Putney School in Vermont.

Galopede, Lucky Seven, Alabama Gal, maybe one more, boom done.

Band/sound system provided.
I'd do it myself but I can't be in three places at once.
Respectable budget.

Email me directly or call 802-222-7598.

Thanks,
Amy

Re: [Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

[Tepfer, Seth via Callers]

I deliciously enjoy dangling that dingle in full view of everyone, know the 
jangle of that jingle will cause someone to single out that angle.



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From: Callers  on behalf of Kalia 
Kliban via Callers 
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 3:44:45 PM
To: callers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

On 10/4/2016 9:58 PM, Michael Barraclough via Callers wrote:
> I am sure that Kalia will kill me for this (as I know she knows) but
> the dance is really Pride of the Pingle by the late Ken Alexander (UK).
> Someone from the USA saw it in the UK, misheard the name, assumed it
> was Irish and called it Pride of the Dingle when they called it in the
> USA. Such is the folk process! BTW the 'Pingle' referred to is a local
> housing estate (neighborhood) near where Ken lived.
>
> Michael Barraclough
> www.michaelbarraclough.com

I do know it, and I had a feeling someone would call me on the name :>)
To do honor to the choreographer I should probably start using the
correct name, but I can't help enjoying the word "dingle."

Kalia

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Re: [Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

[Kalia Kliban via Callers]

On 10/4/2016 9:58 PM, Michael Barraclough via Callers wrote:

I am sure that Kalia will kill me for this (as I know she knows) but
the dance is really Pride of the Pingle by the late Ken Alexander (UK).
Someone from the USA saw it in the UK, misheard the name, assumed it
was Irish and called it Pride of the Dingle when they called it in the
USA. Such is the folk process! BTW the 'Pingle' referred to is a local
housing estate (neighborhood) near where Ken lived.

Michael Barraclough
www.michaelbarraclough.com


I do know it, and I had a feeling someone would call me on the name :>) 
To do honor to the choreographer I should probably start using the 
correct name, but I can't help enjoying the word "dingle."


Kalia

[Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

[Edmund Croft via Callers]

Scottish dances can also be a good source when you're short on numbers. And if 
you have internet, you can look them up when you arrive at the venue, as the 
abbreviated instructions for many of them can be found at 
http://my.strathspey.org/dd/index/ (you can filter for set size using the menu: 
Extra > Complex Dance Search). At least for the quick ones (jigs and reels, not 
Strathspeys), the step doesn't really matter.

There are many dances for 2 couples in a longwise set (which could be as short 
as 2C or 3C if that's what you've got). And they are almost all proper, so you 
don't need to worry about swapping sides each time through. And they don't 
(ever?) feature interactions outside your group of four for that time through 
the dance.

There are quite a few triplets (3C in a 3C set), but they'll be different from 
the standard repertoire of contra triplets.

Most of the dances are for 3C in a longwise set of 4C (1s lead from 1st place, 
repeat from 2nd place, run away to the bottom as the new 1s start), so in a 3C 
set you will need to make the 1s run to the bottom every time. This often 
happens in Scottish dance groups (one of my local groups is often seven 
couples, so one set will have to make this adjustment), so it should be pretty 
feasible.

If you're trying to fill a whole evening, you could teach them a figure or two 
that you don't get in contra, to widen your choice of Scottish dances. For 
instance the Allemande (not the hand-turn contra figure!) - two or three 
couples, depending on the dance, promenade round half way and the ladies spin 
round back to their own sides, basically - is quite a common progression.

Edmund Croft,
Cambridge and Worcestershire, UK

Michael Barraclough wrote:
> There are many, many 2-couple English Country Dances.

Yoyo Zhou wrote:
> Proper dances make the 2-couple progression easy.

Jacqui Grennan wrote:
> I recently called at a contra dance where we had exactly 6 dancers for almost 
> the entire evening…
> 1) Do you have any dances you can share that would work for 4 or 5 dancers? 
> Or also dances for 6 dancers that are not triplets (have plenty of triplets).

Re: [Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

[JD Erskine via Callers]

On 2016-10-04 2158, Michael Barraclough via Callers wrote:

I am sure that Kalia will kill me for this (as I know she knows) but
the dance is really Pride of the Pingle by the late Ken Alexander (UK).
Someone from the USA saw it in the UK, misheard the name, assumed it
was Irish and called it Pride of the Dingle when they called it in the
USA. Such is the folk process! BTW the 'Pingle' referred to is a local
housing estate (neighborhood) near where Ken lived.

Michael Barraclough
www.michaelbarraclough.com


Thanks for broaching the subject Michael. I wasn't sure whether to bring 
it up, however discovered it a few years ago when on a general dance 
churn on the interwebs.


I turned up one rendition of the story in the newsletters at

American Dance Circle - Lloyd Shaw Foundation
http://www.lloydshaw.org/american-dance-circle.html

The edition in question is that of May 1982
http://www.lloydshaw.org/Resources/adc/198205i.pdf

Cheers, John
--
J.D. Erskine
Victoria, BC

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