[Callers] Re: Coronadance

2020-03-18 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
:maw...@sbcglobal.net>> >>> Cc: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net >>> <mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> >>> Subject: [Callers] Re: Coronadance >>> >>> LOVE this!!! Thanks. >>> Mary >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 17, 202

[Callers] Re: Coronadance

2020-03-18 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
> > LOVE this!!! Thanks. > Mary > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 9:37 PM Martha Wild via Contra Callers > <mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote: > A contra dance for social distancing: > > Coronadance > > Duple improper > > A1) Do-si

[Callers] Re: Coronadance

2020-03-18 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
> > LOVE this!!! Thanks. > Mary > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 9:37 PM Martha Wild via Contra Callers > <mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote: > A contra dance for social distancing: > > Coronadance > > Duple improper > > A1) Do-si

[Callers] Coronadance

2020-03-17 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
A contra dance for social distancing: Coronadance Duple improper A1) Do-si-do neighbor Mad robin (facing partner) ladies in front A2) Single file circle 3/4 around Spiral around your partner 2x until gents are facing across B1) Full hey, gents passing left shoulder to start B2) Gents

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

2020-03-03 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
When I first danced, I couldn’t get the hey for weeks and weeks until someone drew a figure 8 with an extra loop on a blackboard for me. Then it all made sense. For that reason, now, I keep a large hand-drawn with dark thick magic marker figure 8 with extra loop on a piece of stiff light

[Callers] Re: square dances for teens

2020-02-21 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
I like the visiting square Birdie in the Cage. It’s also the sort of forgiving dance where if there’s a five couple set you just do it a fifth time to let the last couple have fun and other sets can keep going. Teens can get into showing off in the center with whatever moves they like. I

[Callers] Re: Looking for non-mixer dances for kids (age 4-10)

2020-01-30 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
And don’t forget the “Hat Dance” - which out here I do as the “Gorilla Dance” - it’s amazing how long kids will do this dance! Three chairs, two lines perpendicular to either side of the chairs, top person from each line sits in an outside chair, and one person sits in the middle. The middle

[Callers] Re: Looking for non-mixer dances for kids (age 4-10)

2020-01-30 Thread Martha Wild via Contra Callers
And don’t forget the “Hat Dance” - which out here I do as the “Gorilla Dance” - it’s amazing how long kids will do this dance! Three chairs, two lines perpendicular to either side of the chairs, top person from each line sits in an outside chair, and one person sits in the middle. The middle