You all have inspired me. Last night I dreamt that the dance I'm supposedly in charge of was being run by a whole cycle of random people pretending to be contradance callers, that is, they had NO NOTION of how to call or walk or teach, and most didn't even really understand contradance, with the result that the dance was chaos, and I was trying to explain how calling a contradance actually worked and *no one would listen to me*. Aaagh!
Happy 2013, all! Maia On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martha Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > 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= > [email protected]> > > 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 > > **************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
