Another thing to consider is progressing on to the next. Chinese Fan
is fuzzy about where moves end, as the star turns. So you need to have
dancers promenade "to progressed places", rather than just circling
halfway or some such. I've found dancers have great trouble with this,
at least partly
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> If you call Chinese Fan such that the mini stars are longer, folks end up
> back with their partners. With skilled dancers you can do that
> intentionally just by adding an extra four counts of patter in. At speed,
> the ladies wind up turning 1 and 1/2 times, the men go all the way
Hi Luke,
Thanks for sharing all of this! I'm looking for ideas for a sophisticated crowd
and a very square room; 4x4s (and 6x6s etc) end up progressing folks to the
same neighbors multiple times, and no one cares to be inactive. I could likely
get away with one dance where I'd call all the way
On 5/4/2015 7:14 AM, Bill Olson via Callers wrote:
Kalia, You said you already had a triplet with contra corners in it, BUT
I figured I'd offer this anyway. I often call Chorus Jig as a triplet,
(B2 being 1's (bal and) swing to bottom of set and others move up). I
found that in a triplet dancers
On 5/4/2015 6:57 AM, Martha Wild via Callers wrote:
Though it may seem like heresy to do it without the associated tune, Levi
Jackson Rag can be done to other thirty-two bar tunes if the band doesn't know
the required tune, and is good for 5 couples.
That was at the top of my mind for this
On 5/3/2015 9:02 PM, Paul Wilde wrote:
Kalia,
I love David's Triplet # 5 (David Smuckler). It has a lovely hey for 6
w/ a P Gypsy Meltdown to finish.
I just revisited David's site yesterday and looked through his set of
triplets and that one looked really nice so I added it to my
Hi Neal and All,
thank you for the replies and help. I can see that it's not a simple
choreography issue.
I will give the floor pattern/teaching to my friend to see how choreography
goes.
I will ask an Advanced caller who knows how to teach Chinese Fan to see if they
want to try the Contra
I think Neal makes very good points about the wisdom of transferring
square-dance moves to contras. I think such transfers can be fun if done
well, but the teach must be very efficient or else will be likely to
frustrate dancers. The challenge grows steeper for a newish caller.
Consider whether
Hi Claire,
I can help, but am not certain you asked for what you truly want. Are you
really looking for a set of calls for the square, or do you need directions
for the floor pattern, teaching instructions, a working timing for the
square-style calls, or the timing of the figure for a contra
Kalia, You said you already had a triplet with contra corners in it, BUT I
figured I'd offer this anyway. I often call Chorus Jig as a triplet, (B2 being
1's (bal and) swing to bottom of set and others move up). I found that in a
triplet dancers can learn contra corners very easily without the
Though it may seem like heresy to do it without the associated tune, Levi
Jackson Rag can be done to other thirty-two bar tunes if the band doesn't know
the required tune, and is good for 5 couples.
On May 3, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote:
> I just called a tiny dance last
On 03/May/15 12:53, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote:
I just called a tiny dance last night, and went through several of my
triplets along with a big pile of English 3-couple dances
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Hullo Kalia,
I've called Mary Devlin's Triplet To Eugene a number of times. Looking
over Triplet for
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