What fun! ...and if anyone happened to get a video of *Morning Sta*r, I would love to have it for the archive. (Please make sure it is o.k with David and the band to have it posted).
Bob Green 2012/2/19 David Millstone <[email protected]> > As the caller for the chestnuts session, I simply should have broken the > long lines for all the dances in half, as we did with Money Musk, the next > to last dance. With that dance, we were able to get everyone to be an > active couple. > > I was impressed with the relative ease at which this setting up the sets > took place; last year, we used small orange cones-- thank you, Linda > Leslie-- to make a separation between the top set and the bottom set in a > line, but dancers managed to create a space with no visible marker, and > hold on to that separation. > > I should have done that with the other dances, too. It would have made it > possible for everyone to be active without resorting to the solution that > Luke suggests. > > Lesson learned. > > Notorious played some terrific music for the session. I was struck with > the final times through Hull's Victory, where the band went from key of D > to Eb to E to F. Whew! > > For those interested, we danced: > > Petronella > Rory O'More > Hull's Victory > Morning Star > Money Musk > Chorus Jig > > David Millstone > > ______________________________**_________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers> >
