A friend told me about Brooke Friendly's style of calling ECD and that was part of the inspiration for this contra program.
Jim On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Roger Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett's English Country dances - > they use "geographic" terms, and structure the dances without gender roles. > It's different, but the dance does keep changing, it's a live art. > > http://www.brookefriendlydance.com/ > > Aside from Mr. Hemphill's effort recently here described, I know of no > comparable endeavor in contra dance choreography - I suppose we're more > traditional than ECD. Does anyone have info to share? > > Roger Hayes > Jim - I don't think I am alone in wondering how you managed this without > telling the dancers. I take that to mean you didn't make it gender free by > the terminology you used (jets or whatever) but by the kinds of dances you > chose. I'd love to read more details about what this entailed. > > Please share more! > > Amy > 206 330 7408 > [email protected] > > On Jun 1, 2015, at 5:37 AM, Jim Hemphill via Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > > The recent discussions on this topic inspired me to try an experiment in > gender free calling. Last night I called the contra dance in St. Louis > using gender free calling without telling anyone. The experiment was a > great success. I received lots of positive feedback on the evenings > dance. At the break and after the dance I made a point to ask several > dancers, some were callers as well, if they noticed anything different or > unusual about the dances or how I taught them. One person noticed that > there were more dances that included a swing in the center for couple 2 > than usual. No one I talked to noticed that the calls and teaching were > gender free. > > It took some extra time to construct a fun, diverse 3 hour program, but it > is certainly possible. Re-labeling the dancers is not the only way to call > gender free. > > If you are interested in the program I used or the larger collection of > gender free dances I chose the program from, send me an email, > [email protected]. > > Thanks, > Jim Hemphill > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > >
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