Re: [Callers] ? on 4 face 4 and double becket dances

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Page
On 10/10/08, crunchym...@juno.com wrote: > > Also does anyone else have a favorite 4f4 formation dance to share? I really like the 4-face-4 genre, and have about eighteen of those dances I really like on file. Favorites include "Coray's Silver Jubilee" by Carol Ormand, and "Dance All Night" by

[Callers] K&E explanation

2008-10-10 Thread Lark-Aeryn Speyer
I LOVE this dance! I've danced it several times and remember it well, though I have not personally called it. It's a favorite of the Ann Arbor (MI) English Country dance community. K&E by Pat Shaw- formation Double Becket 1's are in the middle and progress down, 2's are on the ends and progress

Re: [Callers] ? on 4 face 4 and double becket dances

2008-10-10 Thread Beth Parkes
I'll take a crack at it . Think of a standard becket: Couple facing couple in long lines. Put two of these lines next to each other. This is one set. As in any 4 face 4 style dance, there are four couples in a sub-set. Of these four couples, two couples are back to back in the middle. These are the

[Callers] ? on 4 face 4 and double becket dances

2008-10-10 Thread crunchym...@juno.com
I've been calling a couple of 4 face 4 dances to good reviews- Mark Widmer's "This Dance Has No Title" - the variation by Bob Isaacs- and Seth Tepfer's "Color Outside the Lines" One of our regular dancers who is into the 4f4's suggested I look up Pat Shaw's K&E. Some searching revealed the step

[Callers] Fwd: Can you do a Tropical Contra dance in a month?

2008-10-10 Thread Lark-Aeryn Speyer
Holy cow. I think this is real--a write-a-dance-expressing-science contest. And I think Contra would be an excellent dance medium ... Good luck, everyone! :-) Lark Speyer -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Leonard List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Oct 9, 2008 8:3