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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Shadow Dances? (Greg McKenzie)
2. Report Back: Hello and a few questions... (Don Veino)
3. Re: Report Back: Hello and a few questions... (Colin Hume)
4. Groundhog day (Walter)
5. Re: Groundhog day (Luke Donforth)
6. Re: Shadow Dances? (Luke Donforth)
7. Double contra - whodunnit? (Hanny Budnick)
8. Easy and Fun ([email protected])
9. Re: Double contra - whodunnit? (Chris Page)
10. Re: Double contra - whodunnit? (Bree Kalb)
11. Re: Easy and Fun (Donald Primrose)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:30:36 -0800
From: Greg McKenzie <[email protected]>
To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Shadow Dances?
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Colin wrote:
Surely the objection to mixers (in The States) is that you don't
get to
swing your original partner every time through the dance. In
most mixers
you wouldn't swing the same shadow every time - if you did I'd
change the
starting format so that the person you swing is actually the one
you
asked
to dance.
I suspect that the real objection to unannounced mixers is that
they remove
control of the partnering process from the dancers. With a shadow
dance
every dancer is assigned a second "partner" in the form of a shadow,
someone they might not want to partner with. That's why some
dislike
shadow swings.
I like mixers, in general. But I also think it is very important to
empower the dancers to partner with whomever they wish. This is
key to
integrating first-timers as well. When you give control of the
partnering
process to the regulars you also give responsibility to the
regulars for
integrating newcomers. It is important to maintain the caller-
dancer trust
relationship.
- Greg McKenzie
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:33:16 -0500
From: Don Veino <[email protected]>
To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Callers] Report Back: Hello and a few questions...
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Hi, I realize I owed a report back on my first gig experience.
In the simplest summary, it went great. I had planned a program of
more
basic, very connected dances based upon the crowd I was expecting.
It
turned out that we had zero newbies and kept most of the crowd
from the
start right through to the end, which made me want to stretch the
material
in the second half. I ended up pulling up a few cards I'd prepped
for
another venue, and modified a bit for better connection/
orientation (eg: in
*A Rare Bird* making the pass bys into pull bys, gypsy to
allemande, etc.)
and all went well.
To the best of my recollection, my program was:
Alamo Intro - Circle - Al Green
Get Me Going - DI - Lisa Greenleaf
Broken Transcription - DI - Don Veino (yet another variant on Broken
Sixpence)
Polymorphous' Reel - DI - Christine Hale (dance written in honor
of the
prior incarnation of the band, request by organizer)
You're Among Friends - DI - Bob Isaacs
Butter - Becket - Gene Hubert (my video of this night's walk-
through and
dance at http://youtu.be/pqSoOvu2wI0 )
---
Nail That Catfish To The Tree - DI - Walter Davies [+Bob Dalsemer]
(unfortunately, tune was not in the band's portfolio)
Special Delivery - Becket - Nell Wright
Redbeard Reel - Becket - Bob Isaacs (written for dancers that were
present)
A Rare Bird - DI - Bob Isaacs, var: Lisa Greenleaf, plus mods on
the fly by
me
The Big Easy - DI - Becky Hill
I had two points of trickiness in my teaching. In Special
Delivery, my prep
notes were unclear about whether the B2 L Chain was across or on
diagonal
so I taught it straight across then figured it out in the
walkthrough it
was diagonal. In Rare Bird, I had not refined my language enough
in prep to
clearly describe the current N pull by coming out of the LH Star
at the
bottom of the B2, resulting in me having to talk more than I
planned and
run through a second time to get it across. I now have better card
notes
for both.
Thanks for the tips and info from this list! I put a bunch of it
to good
use and hope to apply more soon. I got good feedback from several
dancers,
had fun with the band, and the organizer was very happy (and has
invited me
back).
-Don
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:40:43 +0000
From: Colin Hume <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Report Back: Hello and a few questions...
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Don -
Sounds as if you did a great job - congratulations!
On 26/12/2011 07:33, Don Veino wrote:
I now have better card notes for both.
That's so important - there are callers who always cause confusion
at
some point in some dance but never change their card!
Colin Hume
E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.colinhume.com
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:13:20 -0500
From: Walter <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Callers] Groundhog day
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The applicability of shadow dances notwithstanding, I have also used
tunnel dances and dances with a dip and dive progression in honor
of the
other piece of the tradition, namely, coming out of the hole to
greet
the whatever.
Walter
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:24:30 -0500
From: Luke Donforth <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Groundhog day
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The applicability of shadow dances notwithstanding, I have also
used tunnel
dances and dances with a dip and dive progression in honor of the
other
piece of the tradition, namely, coming out of the hole to greet the
whatever.
Walter
A nice additional twist, Walter. Do you have favorites for that? I
wonder
if there are any dip & dives that also have shadows...? And now I'm
contemplating a double-length (128 bar) dance where you meet your
shadow
only every other time... such ways lie madness and sleepless night
choreographing dances that never get called...
Thanks though, I like the dip and dive idea.
--
Luke Donforth
[email protected] <[email protected]>
www.lukedonev.com
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:26:14 -0500
From: Luke Donforth <[email protected]>
To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Shadow Dances?
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Perhaps with that in mind Luke, if you are going to have a number
of
shadow dances, let the interaction with the shadow be different
in each
dance: one a swing, the next allemandes, the next a gypsy, a do
si do,
what
have you. Sounds fun. Wish I could be there. :)
Andrea
A good idea Andrea. I hadn't planned on putting in more than two
shadow
dances in an evening anyway, but even at two I think varying the
shadow
interaction is the way to do it.
--
Luke Donforth
[email protected] <[email protected]>
www.lukedonev.com
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:01:53 -0500
From: Hanny Budnick <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
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I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one
of you
can
fill in the considerable gaps, please:
1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'.
2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a
double dance
across the whole set
3) there's a hey for all eight in it
Your turn....
Thanks, Hanny
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:03:07 -0500
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Callers] Easy and Fun
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Hi all,
I am about to call a dance the character of which has changed from
what I
expected and I need some easy dances. I had harder material
planned and
while I do have some material that is probably easy enough, I am
not sure
that it is. The dance is at a college. It is for college
students only,
pssibly only students from that college, and we are now hoping for
a large
contingent of beginers; perhaps mostly beginners. Have you any
expereince
with a similar situation? I am thinking along the lines of ONS
dances,
although if we made a few into regulars for the regular dance
there that
would be great. So: "no-partner" dances, mixers (I have January
Mixer - a
great one), Set dances ("Once and to the bottoms") .......
We intend to have a blast!
Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:14:33 -0500
From: Chris Page <[email protected]>
To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Hanny Budnick
<[email protected]> wrote:
I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe
one of you
can fill in the considerable gaps, please:
1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'.
2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a
double
dance
? across the whole set
3) there's a hey for all eight in it
Your turn....
Thanks, Hanny
"Major Hey" by Erik Hoffman? It also has Rory o' More slides in it,
and is 40 bars. Though I think it's a Becket 4-face-4.
-Chris Page
San Diego
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:17:05 -0500
From: "Bree Kalb" <[email protected]>
To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
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Might be Major Hey by Erik Hoffman. Here's a link to a previous
discussion
and description on this list.
http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/2007-December/001112.html
Bree Kalb
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From: Hanny Budnick
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 11:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Callers] Double contra - whodunnit?
I failed to note it down immediately after dancing it... Maybe one
of you
can
fill in the considerable gaps, please:
1) The choreography stems from 'someone in California'.
2) Formation: two improper contra lines, close together for a
double dance
across the whole set
3) there's a hey for all eight in it
Your turn....
Thanks, Hanny
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:59:51 -0500
From: Donald Primrose <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], "Caller's discussion list"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Callers] Easy and Fun
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Something to check on.. depends on the day of the week, and is
there a
potential that students have been drinking. Changes the dance.
& go with the normal stuff.. no need to dumb it down, after all they
asked you to call a contra.. I assume,
-don
On 12/26/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I am about to call a dance the character of which has changed
from what I
expected and I need some easy dances. I had harder material
planned and
while I do have some material that is probably easy enough, I am
not sure
that it is. The dance is at a college. It is for college
students only,
pssibly only students from that college, and we are now hoping
for a
large
contingent of beginers; perhaps mostly beginners. Have you any
expereince
with a similar situation? I am thinking along the lines of ONS
dances,
although if we made a few into regulars for the regular dance
there that
would be great. So: "no-partner" dances, mixers (I have January
Mixer -
a
great one), Set dances ("Once and to the bottoms") .......
We intend to have a blast!
Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH
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