Kalia-- Carol Ormond's "Thanks to the Pharmacist" is a fun triplet.
- R On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > I just called a tiny dance last night, and went through several of my > triplets along with a big pile of English 3-couple dances that we did to > old-time tunes (that was a little weird for me but the dancers enjoyed > them, so what the heck). I was grateful to have the few triplets I had, > and I'd like to expand my collection. The ones I used were Microchasmic, > David's Triplet #7 and Ted's Triplet #24, which all have distinctive bits > in them (contra corners, round two/drop through, and a cast to invert then > 1s lead up, respectively). I like triplets that have some choreographic > substance to them, something for the dancers to chew on. > > Do you have favorites you enjoy dancing as well as calling? I get the > impression sometimes that triplets are "that thing you do to fill time > until the real dancing starts," but 3-couple sets can be a whole lot of > fun. And sometimes they can save your butt as a caller. > > We had lots of odd numbers last night, so in addition to the triplets and > 3-couple English dances I used dances like Domino 5 (5 dancers) and Pride > of Dingle (for 9). For a short while we had 4 couples and did contras but > most of the evening was "other." Got any good dances for odd numbers? > > Kalia > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net >
