Welcome to the tribe, Danielle! There are lots of good suggestions here,
including a very detailed approach from Sue that shows how personalized you
approach can be, according to the way you like to do things. I'll just
say/re-say thing in my way:
-Never marry yourself to your program. Not as a be
Hi,
I'm a fairly new caller as well and here are some thing that have helped
me. I
1 - Have a master list of dances in rough order of difficulty so I can quickly go to the
beginning, middle, or end for ideas on what to call depending on my dancers. I gave up on
a formal "program" after the
a thread on that.
Harold
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Congratulations
ry 09, 2014 10:16 AM
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> Good morning,
>
> My name is Danielle, and I am a new caller in New Mexico. I just called my
> first full evening last night. We ended up having a rather large group of
> beginne
014 10:16 AM
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Subject: [Callers] Programming on-the-fly
Good morning,
My name is Danielle, and I am a new caller in New Mexico. I just called my
first full evening last night. We ended up having a rather large group of
beginners, so much so that I could use neither my plan
On 2/9/2014 10:16 AM, Danielle Boudreau wrote:
My name is Danielle, and I am a new caller in New Mexico. I just called my
first full evening last night. We ended up having a rather large group of
beginners, so much so that I could use neither my planned program nor even
my backup program that I t
Danielle wrote:
> I'd love to hear what other callers do in this situation, or how they are
> able to avoid it with prep work beforehand.
>
Integrating the hall is critical. Even when there are only a few regular
contra dancers getting them spread out and paired up with first-timers will
help a
I always have a programs worth it very easy dances in a bundle. If I must, I
will use those. But... As you get more experienced, your ability to teach new
dancers so they can handle at least your back up program will increase. You
will help yourself by thinking of best ways to teach each move
Good morning,
My name is Danielle, and I am a new caller in New Mexico. I just called my
first full evening last night. We ended up having a rather large group of
beginners, so much so that I could use neither my planned program nor even
my backup program that I thought would be appropriate for a
