[Callers] Re: Aurora O’More

Angela, this is brilliant! --jh-- On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM Angela DeCarlis via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Love the title, Joseph!!! I wrote a dance in 2016 with similar celestial > themes and figures for my friend and longtime contra, ECD, and waltz d

[Callers] Re: [External] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Sandy Bradley was THE premier caller of her time, for community dances. She called squares, of course, and party games and fun simple dances. But when she got up on a stage (or chair) and began to call, the energy in the room went through the roof. It was so much fun to be on the dance floor whe

[Callers] Re: [External] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

I am no historian (paging David Milstone). However, talking about luminary and influential callers who are women, we would be remiss to not mention Sandy Bradly, from Seattle. I don't know when she started calling, but I know she had an LP with her playing dance music from 1981. I have heard tha

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Thanks so much to those of you who have responded to my inquiry about Becky Hill. SO neat to learn more about her. :) I love some of the stories about her personal philosophy about calling. So great. :) And yes... lovely to also hear what other women were also calling in the 1980s and 1990s. Emi

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

The very first callers workshop I ever attended was lead by Becky. She encouraged us to take responsibility for whatever happened on the dance floor. "Own it. Win an Academy Award for sincerely saying, 'oops, I misjudged, let's try this a different way.' " Years later, for a full-weekend event in

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

(Make that late aughts. I forgot my own age.) On Wed, May 15, 2024, at 3:01 PM, Harris Lapiroff via Contra Callers wrote: > People who knew her better can say more than me, but I'll just add that she > taught me to call when I was a student at Oberlin College in the early > aughts, so she's real

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

People who knew her better can say more than me, but I'll just add that she taught me to call when I was a student at Oberlin College in the early aughts, so she's really the one who started it all for me, for which I'm very grateful. Harris Lapiroff Dance Caller and Organizer Boston Intergener

[Callers] Re: Aurora O’More

Love the title, Joseph!!! I wrote a dance in 2016 with similar celestial themes and figures for my friend and longtime contra, ECD, and waltz dancer Dr. Bernard Whiting. He was one of the leading scientists responsible for the historic first observation of Gravitational Waves. This dance describes

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

This past weekend I attended a dance called by Martha Tyner, who was celebrating 40 years of calling. Jonathan -Jonathan Sivier Caller of Contra, Square, English and Early American Dances Dance Page: http://www.sivier.me/dance_leader.html - Q: How many angels can dance on the head of a p

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

It may have been true that Becky paved the way. But by the time I started calling in 1998, I don’t think it ever occurred to me that there were more men than women. I recall not only Becky, but also Kathy Anderson, Cis Hinkle, and Lisa Greenleaf making regular stops in Pittsburgh. And probably more

[Callers] Re: Aurora O’More

Hi Joseph, Middlemarch (ECD Waltz time) has Allemandes turning into Orbits. Depends whether you want the Orbiters to continue in the same direction, or turn back to go the opposite way. That is a common figure known as Allemande Orbits – you can see it in Sun Ski

[Callers] Aurora O’More

This title and concept for a dance burst into my head during the recent auroras. It ought to have shifting wavy lines, of course, and is there a way to have an orbit around a star? Ooh! A hands across star where a pair spits out and goes outward and into orbit… Anyway, I don’t have the compositi

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Kathy Anderson was also calling in that time frame On Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 11:31:12 AM CDT, steveholl via Contra Callers wrote: Cindy Greene from New England was also a caller in the 80's as was Susan Kevra. Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message --

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

We knew Becky well here in Pittsburgh. She was the heart and soul of the Cleveland contradance community and often came our way to call dances in Pittsburgh. And as some have said, she was a lovely and gracious caller. Do any of you remember the week when the World Trade Center was destroyed? I’m

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Cindy Greene from New England was also a caller in the 80's as was Susan Kevra.Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Masha Goodman Crawford via Contra Callers Date: 5/15/24 12:09 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Amanda Setili via Contra Callers , Gregory Frock Subj

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

I call several of Becky's dances, they're still among my favorites. Sandy Bradley and Kate Charles were two women callers that I remember hearing & wanting to emulate back when I started calling in 1978. They mostly called squares, with a very musical, fun style. Sandy lives up in the PNW, I don

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

I'm so glad you asked that, Emily, and thanks for your reflections, Greg. I love Becky Hill's dances. Bob Isaacs told us, during his calling workshop at CDH, that Becky paved the way for women to get into calling. Apparently there were few (or none?) women callers before her. Bob might have more

[Callers] Re: Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Hi Emily, I knew Becky (although I am sure there are others lurking here who knew her better). She was a very good natured and gracious person and dance leader, who worked tirelessly to support and promote dancing in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She published three (I think) books of dances, the last

[Callers] Wanting to learn more about Becky Hill - the choreographer

Hi folks, Over the past year, I'm realizing how many dances written by Becky Hill I absolutely adore. So, naively, I wrote to Becky Hill (this one! ) whom I admire thinking that it was her who wrote dances. Turns out that flatfooter and old time square dance leader