Hi Amy - My favorite moments: In 333 when the women get to dosido to their next neighbor and he/she is waiting, or, even better, doing a wind up turn to greeet me. Ramsay Chase, the whole thing, especially the gypsy and deciding who will lead to the other side in the hey. I love when the women are courtesy-turned by the old neighbor into a balance and swing with a new neighbor at the top of the A. (When the music is changing it's even better). I detest ending a swing and starring left (right works well for women) or circling or anything that requires getting hands sorted out. I don't like too much in one direction, that is, circling left three quarters, sliding along the set and circling again with the next neighbors. I hate doing anything too much - balancing twice, petronella more than twice; dances with three or more balances get automatic Cs. I also like the give and take if you do it with your partner. With the neighbor you never get an agreed on number of beats for giving and taking. Once you reach the agreement, you can flirt a lot. Nell >From: Amy Cann <[email protected]> >Date: 2008/05/14 Wed PM 09:00:49 CDT >To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> >Subject: [Callers] The rest of the story
>I teach at The Putney School, an academically >intense/progressive/nerdy-hippy prep school with a working farm and a >bunch of contradance-loving students who are also math geeks. > >Next week they're starting a ten-day intensive on the interrelation of >traditional dance and math. >Maypoles + Mathematical theory of braids and cyclic symmetries. >Contradancing + Geometric transformations/Rotational motion/angular >momentum. > >They're going to go to the Dawn Dance in Brattleboro, sit around and mess >with LOTS of theory, write a dance, and present the whole thing to the >school at the end. > >Cool project, huh? > >They need YOUR answers so that they can analyze the math/physics behind >the moves. > >The next and final email will be the official reply form. PLEASE consider >taking a few moments to fill it out and send it in - you will be much >appreciated by a very cool group of kids -- one that probably contains at >least one future caller! > >cheers again, >Amy > >_______________________________________________ >Callers mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
