[Callers] Re: Short contra lines

2022-10-21 Thread Don Veino via Contra Callers
With smaller groups definitely consider screening compositions for significant end effects - dancers will encounter them a greater proportion of time than in longer lines/bigger crowds. -Don On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 1:25 AM Laur via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: >

[Callers] Short contra lines

2022-10-21 Thread Laur via Contra Callers
There is such a lack of attendance now post Covid in our area and I’m planning dances and then 20 people show. Do you have best selections or considerations  for 20 to 16 peoples for  intermediate experience dancers or secondarily less experienced dancers My immediate question is for more

[Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation

2022-10-21 Thread Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian? On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the

[Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation

2022-10-21 Thread Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand after a swing. Lisa Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via Contra Callers > wrote: > >  > Hi all, > > I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as: >

[Callers] dance name? - Big Easy variation

2022-10-21 Thread Julian Blechner via Contra Callers
Hi all, I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as: Big Easy Becky Hill A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S) A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5 B1: P B+S B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn

[Callers] Re: [External] RE: New dance for your consideration

2022-10-21 Thread Tony Parkes via Contra Callers
Wow! I had assumed you really meant "long lines", as in "Each couple face across the hall" as opposed to facing up and down toward the next line of four as is usual in 4x4s. If you mean the usual "Face another line of four," then "Long lines" (with or without "forward and back") is just plain