Re: [Callers] Allemande

On 2019.06.26 1402, tom hinds via Callers wrote: John, Thanks so much for your hard work and sharing a tremendous amount of information with us. There’s one allemande I’d like to know more about. It’s the one used in the the dance, Away to the Camp which can be seen on the Lambertville ECD

Re: [Callers] Caller's monitor question

Hullo Jeremy, 1. Hit up the Contra Sound Forum for advice. Callers are nicely tolerated, actually welcomed. A great place to ask about such things as monitors, wireless mics, etc. from sound engineers whether pro or super experienced amateurs.

Re: [Callers] Temporarily Remove Name From Sharedweight Request

at http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net It's a Mailman listserver, so one may set a subscribed account to what we once knew as NOMAIL. A subscriber may log in and do it themselves. It's reasonably straightforward. Use the "change your subscription options"

Re: [Callers] Etiquette of refusing an offer to dance

On 2017-12-16 1139, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: Hi all, snip To what extent has that earlier etiquette norm either survived or been replaced, and what has it been replaced with? In your dance community, do you have a written statement of the etiquette around this? Our community's

Re: [Callers] contras for modern square dancers

On 2017-07-19 0717, Greenleaf via Callers wrote: Hi Judy- Here’s a helpful article written by Clark Baker, a MWSD caller and a contra dancer, and it explains contras and trad squares to MWSDers: http://www.tiac.net/~mabaker/how-contra-dances-work.html also in the wild is this, which may

Re: [Callers] How do you organize your Dance Card Boxes ? Categories or Other Suggestions ?

On 2017-04-07 1820, Cheryl Joyal via Callers wrote: I am at the point that I want to reorganize my dance box to be able to better program an evening. I plan to go to “categories of dance features”, and have listed what I am thinking for possible categories below. I am wondering how others

Re: [Callers] What to do with a really bad new dancer?

On 2017-03-07 0627, Martha Wild via Callers wrote: I’d like to add another point to Neal’s reasoning: As a 5 foot 1 inch woman dancer (and a caller), I can also add that the female of the human species is known to generally be smaller than the male. major snip In general, then, it’s a lot

Re: [Callers] Dances Inspired by "Beneficial Tradition"

On 2017-03-03 1052, JD Erskine via Callers wrote: On 2017-03-03 1016, Bill Olson via Callers wrote: Dugan, Here are Dan's own notes regarding the dance.. not sure what the Steve Schnur dance is titled, someone on here certainly knows..: "I always loved this zig-zag gimmick when I d

Re: [Callers] Dances Inspired by "Beneficial Tradition"

On 2017-03-03 1016, Bill Olson via Callers wrote: Dugan, Here are Dan's own notes regarding the dance.. not sure what the Steve Schnur dance is titled, someone on here certainly knows..: "I always loved this zig-zag gimmick when I danced it in Cor Hogendijk's "Pat's Tradition", done by English

Re: [Callers] Favorite NWT dances

Home from calling, and post dance stuff. It was a good first-Contra-dance-of-the-new-year with all that entails. I was sitting here, kindly thinking, "Okay, all/most acronyms may be worked out in the context of their use." So, it finally came to me. "Up here" NWT is North West Territories,

Re: [Callers] Thursday Night Flash! was: Re: suggestions for dances

On 2016-11-02 1602, Winston, Alan P. via Callers wrote: My mail client isn't showing the fraction in A1 that shows how far the men turn. Thinking it through, I guess it's either 1.25 (gents are closest to partner with their backs to partner, so have to turn around) or 1.75 (gents are

Re: [Callers] suggestions for dances

On 2016-11-04 1925, Martha Wild via Callers wrote: Wednesday’s at Amherst Ron Blechner Saturday Night LineJoseph Pimentel Saturday Night ReelHerbie Gaudreau On Nov 4, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Karin Neils via Callers > wrote:

Re: [Callers] Beneficial Tradition end effects

On 2016-10-21 1733, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: Hi all I haven't yet called Beneficial Tradition, but think it might be a good fit for an upcoming dance. Does it get weird at the ends or does it flow reasonably well? I danced it years ago and don't remember. If you pull by RH to go out

Re: [Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

On 2016-10-04 2158, Michael Barraclough via Callers wrote: I am sure that Kalia will kill me for this (as I know she knows) but the dance is really Pride of the Pingle by the late Ken Alexander (UK). Someone from the USA saw it in the UK, misheard the name, assumed it was Irish and called it

Re: [Callers] Headset mics, take two ("they're small")

On 2016-09-05 2012, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: I sent this last week but got a message from Dave Casserly telling me the message had been marked as spam, so I'm guessing it mostly disappeared into everyone's lint filter. I've read the previous threads on headsets going back to 2014 and

Re: [Callers] Microphones and/or technique for a deep voice.

On 2016-05-18 1909, Darwin Gregory via Callers wrote: I am a new caller, and I have called two dances. The first, I completely blew the microphone part. Since then, I practiced holding the mic close to my mouth like was suggested to me. The second dnce, I was told that my voice was too deep

Re: [Callers] Young Adult Rose

On 2016-03-27 1713, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: Hmm, this is interesting. I picked it up from JoLaine Jones-Pokorney's site, where it's written as allemande R. I haven't been able to find the notes anywhere else, when I was looking to see whether I just had an odd version. Anybody else

Re: [Callers] Young Adult Rose

On 2016-03-27 1324, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: I called Young Adult Rose last night and experienced a near-complete dancer revolt about the shadow allemande. The dance is written with a circle left 3/4, pass P by R along the line then allemande shadow R 1x, before coming back to P for a

Re: [Callers] Family dances for 3-9 people?

On 2016-02-18 2252, Claire Takemori via Callers wrote: Hi Everyone, In preparation for calling my first family dance on March 6, I’d like to find some family-friendly dances that are for very small groups, like 3-9 people. Ideally NOT proper triplets, or 3x3s (already have a few of those) and

Re: [Callers] yet another gypsy substitute (YAGS)

On 2016-02-05 1030, Jonathan Sivier via Callers wrote: I just had a thought for another possible substitute if we need to replace the term "gypsy". This would be "vis-a-vis" (face to face). I like this since it is in some sense similar to dos-a-dos (back to back) and makes them

Re: [Callers] ONS with a *tiny* inexperienced crowd?

On 2016-01-27 2107, Don Veino via Callers wrote: snip ps: I've had a chance to meet with the sponsors and see some of the all-out decorations they've got going for the hall - including hay bales, old time milk cans, saddles on sawhorses, etc. - may need to pull together some themed outfit for

Re: [Callers] Giving Weight

I do (mildly) state that it is a lean. However I don't associate bending at the waist with it, myself or publicly in any demonstration of it. I will say the two of us in a swing is a bit like a top, a pull string top or toy, and I show my two hands, wrists near meeting, finger tips up and

Re: [Callers] Itty-bitty dances, triplets, odd numbers

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 snip Hullo Kalia, I've called Mary Devlin's Triplet To Eugene a number of times. Looking over Triplet for

Re: [Callers] Definition, description

On 02/May/15 17:47, Amy Wimmer via Callers wrote: I collected a dance recommended by someone and do not quite understand part of it. I need a description of what the gents are doing in B2 when they "loop over their left shoulder." Can you 'splain me? Catch a Falling Star, by Melanie Axel-Lute