On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Kalia Kliban wrote: > > I live at the north end of the California Bay Area. Between the two > local CDS affiliates (BACDS and NBCDS) and a couple of independent > groups we have over 15 regularly scheduled dances each month within > a 2-hour drive of my place up in Sebastopol (about an hour north of > SF). Most are within an hour's drive. Since I call both contra and > English, things can really stack up. > > The good thing about having this many regular local dances is that > there are lots of opportunities for new callers, or callers > branching out into different styles like I did. But the down side > is that you have to be careful with schedule management. It's a > learning process :>)
Speaking as someone in the same geographic area, I do not find this setup particularly congenial to new callers. I'm not really up for an extended discussion of why I feel that way, but I didn't feel like letting this sit unanswered, either. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." [email protected]
