[Callers] Festivals - mixed abilities and ages

2008-12-27 Thread Jeanette Mill
Hi from Australia I'm interested in strategies for incorporating a huge range of abilities and ages in to a fun workshop at a festival. I will be calling at a festival in a few weeks - it is not a dancing festival as such, more a music festival, where some dancing is held. As well as the regula

Re: [Callers] Festivals - mixed abilities and ages

2008-12-27 Thread Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
Jeannette wrote: > I'm interested in strategies for incorporating a huge range of abilities and >ages in to a fun workshop at a festival. I will be calling at a festival in a >few weeks - it is not a dancing festival as such, more a music festival, where >some dancing is held. As well as the regul

Re: [Callers] [trad-dance-callers] Questions on dance style.

2008-12-27 Thread Martha Edwards
I should like to offer this scan of a wonderful handout created by Chip Henderson in 1983, titled To Twirl (a Lady) or Not to Twirl: http://childgrove.org/images/To-Twirl.jpg M E On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dave Colestock wrote: > Hi Lois, > > Thanks for asking about that. Yes, there are

Re: [Callers] [trad-dance-callers] Questions on dance style.

2008-12-27 Thread Will Loving
15-20 years ago or so, at the Greenfield Guiding Star Grange dances that David Kaynor called, copies of this pamphlet were usually to be found on the lip of the stage just in front of the band, where it might be seen and read by passers by. I never noticed the attribution line at the end and figure