On 2024-01-24 10:11 p.m., Maia McCormick via Contra Callers wrote:
> Late in a regular evening dance a caller recently threw in a contra with
larks and robins progressing in opposite directions or at different rates.
Although it was announced as a mixer, it was sufficiently unexpected that
Unfortunately, I was a dancer, not the caller, and I did not collect the
dance. To tell the truth, I'm not even certain any more who the caller
was.
David
On 1/24/2024 9:11 PM, Maia McCormick wrote:
> Late in a regular evening dance a caller recently threw in a contra
with larks and
> Late in a regular evening dance a caller recently threw in a contra with
larks and robins progressing in opposite directions or at different rates.
Although it was announced as a mixer, it was sufficiently unexpected that
chaos and discomfort ensued. I'd have been happier with that in a
I've attended several workshops with this theme, led on different
occasions by Carol Ormand and Jo Mortland. A few of the exercises have
been described already, including teaching the dance to half of each
couple and not calling, messing with the music, dancing with pool
noodles, and dancing
Whoops, I never came back to this, but, some exercises I've
done/seen/considered:
- half the room gets the walkthrough and half doesn't, the ones who got the
walkthrough need to guide the others through the dance NONVERBALLY
- nonsense dance: substitute all the dance vocab with random words,
