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,
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
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
Su
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
worke
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 acro
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 a
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
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 al
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...@shar
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
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 on
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
> 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
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
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
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...@colin
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 t
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