[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Here are dances you should find useful: To teach wavy lines "Positional Thinikning" https://aptsg.org/Dance/dances.html#PosTh A great dance for beginners and for moderately skilled to guide beginners "The Balter Dance" https://aptsg.org/Dance/dances.html#Balter For dancers comfortable

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

You might check out Eleanor’s Reel , which has a progression of “walk forward on the diagonal to a new wave”—a bit of a twist on walking straight forward to a new wave. If a Rory OMoore is your complex fixture, I guess you probably won’t want a move

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

For Wavini Lines I like this one. Grazie Louise Siddons' class in Positional Calling. https://youtu.be/jx_EP9HP9eM?si=zAVXOnUlk46hUhnH Rob - - - - - - - - - - - - Robert Matson Cell: (917) 626-2675 On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:34 PM David Harding via Contra Callers <

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Katherine, A few thoughts: First, I really like your approach of a monthly theme with variations. While square dancers know the configuration as an ocean wave, my experience has been that in contra dance circles it's much more frequently referred to by the far more descriptive term that you

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Bill Olson’s 20 Below has a circle left into a wave, balance, walk forward to a new wave. > On Apr 1, 2024, at 10:30 AM, Katherine Kitching via Contra Callers > wrote: > >  Hi folks- > > As I've mentioned before, our Halifax group is not very advanced - we welcome > a lot of beginners each

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Summer of 84 has short waves balance and walk forward then balance allemand and return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzswmrNbuM The Childgrove Country Dances in St Louis have a video archive of all types of dances

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Fast Hands videos: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=10031 Happy Wife, Happy Life videos: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=7077 And I can't seem to find the Hemphill dance I mentioned online. Perhaps I have the title or author wrong. On

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

yes, 4 people!! John S tells me it is called an Ocean Wave, sorry about that :) The resources below are exactly what I was looking for - thank you so much for including ways of getting in and out of the wave, I definitely need that too! Amazing. Love this list... Kat K Alan J Rosenthal

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

Variations of swing thru: Double swing thru. This can be called as "swing thru, now swing thru again." This is positionally equivalent to a half hey for four. This shows up in the Jim Hemphill dance Swing into Summer. And four swing thrus would equal a full hey for four. The Diane Silver dance

[Callers] Re: Videos of different things to do in short wavy lines?

>Could anyone point me towards some videos where short wavy lines are >featured? > >I'm interested in being able to watch different fun things that can be done >in SWLs... Assuming I'm guessing correctly that the length of a "short wavy line" is four people, you could look to modern square dance