Personally for me, the standard ballroom swing helps me to "flip the
switch" in the brain on which side of the swing I'm "supposed to" end on
(assuming we're not switching roles back and forth for fun lol). If my left
arm is the "pointy arm," I'm ending on the left; if my right arm is the
"pointy
Hi Read! I wanted to add that the times when I (a non-binary person that is
generally assumed to be a man) have encountered neighbor men who refuse to
swing with me, it has often been accompanied with either thinly-veiled
disgust or even an overt "ew I'm not dancing with a man." I'm so sorry that
I personally plan to start teaching this modification as an option for a
swing in my beginner's lesson. I'm just curious as to whether there's a way
one can quickly signal that you'd like to do this modified swing instead of
the traditional ballroom... Like, if you want to ricochet through a Hey
I think the neutral swing is pretty cool, and I want to give it a go myself
just for fun, but I have an aside:
On the one hand, nobody should be forced to touch someone they don't want
to touch, that's basic consent. And people have every right to refuse to
dance with someone they're
I can use three fingers to count to seven using binary numbers... though 4
always gets me funny looks lol
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 19:15 Woody Lane via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I've called "The Magnificent Seven" many times -- at dance camps or
> advanced
I wrote this one! I wanted a simple dance that followed the AABBCC format,
because all the others I'd found weren't very beginner-friendly. I based
this one on Don Flaherty's Heartbeat Contra, and just expanded a bit. If
anyone gets a chance to call it, please send me feedback! Thank you!
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I wrote an AABBCC dance about a year ago that I haven't had the chance to
call yet, based on Don Flaherty's Heartbeat Contra. I wrote it because I
wanted a simple 48-bar dance to pull out for a fun change of pace without
too much added difficulty, but all the ones I could find were far more
I've found that any dance with long waves that includes a Box Circulate
really lends itself well to forward/backward balancing.
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 22:07 Emily Addison via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi folks :)
>
> As a dancer, I remember loving the feel of
I've always used "lines of four go forward and back" for most 4x4 dances.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 09:02 Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi, Seth and all… Two points:
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> 1. I’m aware that a lot of folks use “long lines” as shorthand for “long
>
