Your concerns about positional calling are correct.
It works ok for the majority of dances, but poorly for some.
Positional teaching/prompting requires more words from the caller and more
thought by dancers.
Thus some dances will require a crowd of a collectively higher skill level for
the
Hi Liz,
I don't see anything particularly challenging in calling this dance
positionally. I presume the A2 is a place you might think so, but there's a
couple of strategies there:
- when the star is formed, have the dancers note their facing [in or out]
direction - then recall that for the wave
-
Since all these easy dances are fresh on my mind.
I think we don't see many new compositions being written because it's
difficult to find ones that aren't like, a simple variation on an existing
dance.
There's a longstanding discussion on "what constitutes a new dance", and
I'm unsure there's a
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> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
> Date: 10/23/22 8:51 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: "Stein, Robert"
> Cc: Drew Delaware ,
> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
> Subject: [Callers] Re: 'Git Goin' (Was: Big Easy Variation)
>
> Oh, please, Robert, l
tracallers@lists.sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] Re: 'Git Goin' (Was:
Big Easy Variation) Oh, please, Robert, let’s not get into a flame war around
gender-free calling.Callers call using the terms chosen by the communities they
call for. If you want to argue about birds please do it elsewhere.B
Oh, please, Robert, let’s not get into a flame war around gender-free calling.
Callers call using the terms chosen by the communities they call for. If you
want to argue about birds please do it elsewhere.
Becky
> On Oct 23, 2022, at 9:07 AM, Stein, Robert via Contra Callers
> wrote:
>
> I
I wish callers would get away from birds. I understand the need to not use
gender terms in calling. But using positional calling does that without people
needing to translate. This works well for contras. Squares are a different
story. We need to figure out how to do those. The dance
