[Callers] Re: Virtual (Zoom) Contra Dance this Saturday!

2020-05-24 Thread David Harding via Contra Callers
Dancing with my wife last night, we found it more satisfying to do almost all two-person moves with each other, whether the figure was called called for partners, neighbors, larks, or ravens, rather than doing them with ghosts.  We're both experienced at dancing with ghosts in a contra set,

[Callers] Contra-Style Dances for Virtual Events

2020-05-24 Thread Kyla Wargel via Contra Callers
Hello, I wanted to share some dances I've written over the past few months, in case they are of use to others. I wrote these dances to call during Bloomington’s weekly Wednesday night zoom dance. They are written for one person to dance alone, but they can be adapted or improvised for more

[Callers] Re: Virtual Room Contra Dance

2020-05-24 Thread Liz Burkhart via Contra Callers
I'm surprised more musicians are not taking advantage of Jamulus. This open-source software, when I looked into it, had already been used by people who want to jam across a distance. The pandemic may have added significant traffic, but I think it's still good. I tried it out with a friend, and