Re: [Callers] Community

I am with Michael on this.  Let it rest for a while, and if Greg comes back, welcome him in.  If I do not want to hear what Greg, or anyone else, has to say, I can delete the email.  Greg, like all of us, has some good to say, and some fluff.  A dissenting voice is often good for a group,

Re: [Callers] ONS Plus Circle Mixers

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, Kalia Kliban wrote: > On 2/25/2014 8:46 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, Kalia Kliban wrote: >>> >>>And how about Levi Jackson Rag (5 cpls)? It's not actually that >>>hard, and uses basic figures in a fun way. When a set gets through >>>it for the first time

Re: [Callers] Social Dance Club intro program

I think that dancers learn to put the lady on the right faster if you use dances with the swing followed by a promenade at the beginning of a program.   After a keeper and a mixer with a promenade, I am more successful using a circle after a swing.  I may also leave a swing out on the first

Re: [Callers] ONS Plus Circle Mixers

On 2/25/2014 8:46 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, Kalia Kliban wrote: I've used the Lancashire Reel with good success and it works fine with small-to-medium groups. It's a double circle, gents facing out, ladies facing in. I can't remember where I got this dance. Looking online,

Re: [Callers] Social Dance Club intro program

On busload-of-beginner nights, I inform the dancers that "the lady ends on the right... because... [shamefacedly] the lady is always right." Then I apologize profusely for having said anything that corny (not to mention gendered) and I promise never to do it again, but they always remember.

Re: [Callers] ONS Plus Circle Mixers

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, Kalia Kliban wrote: > > I've used the Lancashire Reel with good success and it works fine > with small-to-medium groups. It's a double circle, gents facing > out, ladies facing in. I can't remember where I got this dance. > Looking online, I see versions where the first

Re: [Callers] Community

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, lynn ackerson wrote: > > This reminds me a lot of a situation in one of the nearby communities. > There was a dancer who was openly rude to the other dancers and the > callers in particular. An example would be from the floor calling > the caller a Nazi. He was extremely

Re: [Callers] Social Dance Club intro program

We aargh at saying on the left and having to correct it to on the right. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Michael Fuerst wrote: > > Alan: Since when do we aargh on on right ? > > Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801