[Callers] Re: Another difficult tune

2023-05-12 Thread Bree Kalb via Contra Callers
I would happily call Good Friday to that tune. https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=3011 On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:47 PM Katherine Kitching via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi friends! > > You may remember I asked a while ago about wha

[Callers] Re: Another difficult tune

2023-05-12 Thread Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers
I can't remember what level of complication / sophistication works for your dancers. Listening to the tunes I heard bitty 4 count things in the As and longer phrases in the Bs. If you want to work with rather than against the music, your As should be something like balance-the-ring,petronella

[Callers] Re: Another difficult tune

2023-05-12 Thread Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Contra Callers
For what it's worth, here are the figures that I pictured when I listened to the tunes. (This is off the top of my head, so it may not be worth much, and I have no idea if someone else has already put these figures together.) Becket formation A1 With the next couple circle left 3/4 Swing your

[Callers] Another difficult tune

2023-05-12 Thread Katherine Kitching via Contra Callers
Hi friends! You may remember I asked a while ago about what sort of dance I could call to a specific quebecois tune that one of our bands always played and I hate to call to. In the end that conversation shifted into one regarding how to communicate with bands generally, and what sort of expec