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[mailto:callers-boun...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Kaufman
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:03 PM
To: Caller's discussion list
Subject: Re: [Callers] Integrating Newcomers (Was "Calling debut")
Bronwyn Woods wrote:
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> I (like many people) only dance with
I agree with Suzanne and feel the big circle is the most powerful symbol of our
Seattle (or any) dance community.
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Suzanne Girardot wrote:
From: Suzanne Girardot
Subject: Re: [Callers] Integrating Newcomers (Was "Calling debut")
To: "Caller's discussi
>
> I (like many people) only dance with any particular partner once during the
> course of a normal length dance evening. If a no-partner-swing dance means
> I don't get to swing with a good/favorite partner, I feel gypped. However,
> I don't count a mixer as a dance with any particular partner
Bronwyn Woods wrote:
>
> I (like many people) only dance with any particular partner once
> during the course of a normal length dance evening. If a
> no-partner-swing dance means I don't get to swing with a
> good/favorite partner, I feel gypped. However, I don't count a
> mixer as a dance with
wonderful
people in the circle who are part of this community, which is what I think
makes this kind of dancing so special.
Suzanne
-Original Message-
>From: Richard Allen Fischer
>Sent: Jul 19, 2010 12:48 PM
>To: Caller's discussion list
>Subject: Re: [Callers] Integrat
At my home dance I usually call a circle mixer as the second dance of
the evening. I often use La Bastringue, and I generally teach it from
the floor and dance it. (Fun for me, and a useful way to connect with
the dancers.) I don't sense any grumbling or resistance. (But then
again I'm an
As a dancer, I much prefer mixers to no-partner-swing dances. I haven't
called either much, but in my experience as a dancer in various communities
I have often seen mixers favorably received. In fact, I've been to a number
of smaller dance weekends where mixers were welcomed as a way to see who
I second Beth's comments in reply to the ideas introduced by Greg, esp the
below excerpts.
Also, as a dancer, I think mixers are simply FUN (and if they are a bit goofy
or wild, all the better!)
Chrissy Fowler
Belfast ME
Excerpts of email from Beth Parkes:
> Wow.
> I call mixers b
Thank you Beth for your comments. From your response I gather that
you have not encountered the kind of resistance Jeff referred to when
he mentioned the "grumbling" among some dancers when either a mixer
or a partner-swing-free contra is called?
I would be interested in knowing:
- Do you
Wow.
I call mixers because it is the one and only time in an evening when the whole
group is gathered together. Instead of "my little clique" it is "all of us are
in this together" as a dancer and as a caller I enjoy that experience.
I call mixers because I find a whole evening of contra, contr
On the subject of integrating newcomers Jeff wrote:
Yes. I like mixers for this. At a dance such as the thursday concord
ma one where a partner-swing-less dance is almost never called (I
recall one once, in 2006) and will elicit much grumbling, you can
still get away with a circle mixer early
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