Oh, Mark, that is so awesome! What a great nightmare. I've had them too, but it mostly involves showing up in a strange place without any cards or totally forgetting I was going to call or having my slippers on - no lovely Zwiefacher's or Dave Brubeck band music. My real caller's nightmare was calling for a bunch of airline personnel at a large company party in a tent opposite a climbing wall and a craps table who were all drunk and new people kept crashing into the dance and dragging other people along with them. Martha
On Dec 29, 2012, at 9:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Send Callers mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Mark Hillegonds) > 2. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Dorcas Hand) > 3. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Donald Perley) > 4. Re: Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) (Kalia Kliban) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:41:25 -0500 > From: "Mark Hillegonds" <[email protected]> > To: "'Caller's discussion list'" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) > Message-ID: <001301cde522$8f66cc20$ae346460$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi all, > > Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season. > > I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd share > it. > > I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well. > There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers who > insisted in doing the contra dances in square formation. The contra dancers > were experienced and wanted to dance in lines. > > When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of > contra and square dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and > found that it was filled with restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus > and found some dances, but every one of them referenced some sort of slice, > like cucumber slice and tomato slice and pizza slice. (I guess I had the > Slices thread on my mind!) > > The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began > playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line. > > I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my alarm > going off. I was never so relieved to hear my alarm. 8-) > > Hope you all have better dreams!!! > > Mark Hillegonds > > cell: 734-756-8441 > email: [email protected] > blog: www.defriction.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:29:31 -0600 > From: Dorcas Hand <[email protected]> > To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) > Message-ID: > <68BE1BAE269CBC4B80BD58B034C86C9901D66E5DC5E5@mx1.networkservice.local> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > If the SNL writers knew anything about contradancing, they could have a heck > of a good time with that one! > Dorcas Hand > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Hillegonds > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:41 AM > To: 'Caller's discussion list' > Subject: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) > > Hi all, > > Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season. > > I had one of the worst dreams of my life last night and thought I'd share it. > > I was calling a contra dance where I didn't know the dancers very well. > There were a good number of people, but most of them were square dancers who > insisted in doing the contra dances in square formation. The contra dancers > were experienced and wanted to dance in lines. > > When I looked at the card for the first dance, it was a combination of contra > and square dance calls. I went back to my box of dance cards and found that > it was filled with restaurant menus. I opened one of the menus and found some > dances, but every one of them referenced some sort of slice, like cucumber > slice and tomato slice and pizza slice. (I guess I had the Slices thread on > my mind!) > > The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began > playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line. > > I rang a hand bell to get everyone's attention and realized it was my alarm > going off. I was never so relieved to hear my alarm. 8-) > > Hope you all have better dreams!!! > > Mark Hillegonds > > cell: 734-756-8441 > email: [email protected] > blog: www.defriction.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:10:24 -0500 > From: Donald Perley <[email protected]> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) > Message-ID: > <CAMKNU+8pxKEzE9p278UcHsf19aH7N3WU4=m81f39xmkk5sl...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as a dance tune. Must > be the obituary put it in our heads. > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Mark Hillegonds > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The band (which only knew zwiefachers and Dave Brubeck's Take Five) began >> playing some tunes and one of the dancers started a conga line. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:30:47 -0800 > From: Kalia Kliban <[email protected]> > To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Dance Caller's Nightmare (was Slices) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 12/28/2012 1:10 PM, Donald Perley wrote: >> Just the other day I was contemplating Take 5 as a dance tune. Must >> be the obituary put it in our heads. > > Here's a video of the stellar (sorry for the pun) Orion Longsword and > their original dance Take 5: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZZlEEyJ8c > > For those unfamiliar with the tradition of English longsword dance, you > can find a fair number of videos out there on Youtube. Orion (based in > the Boston area) does some of the traditional dances, but mostly > performs their own compositions. If you ever go to NEFFA you might get > to see them there. > > Kalia > > p.s. Though it was the Dave Brubeck Quintet who recorded the tune, it > was actually written by the group's sax player, Paul Desmond. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > > End of Callers Digest, Vol 100, Issue 18 > ****************************************
