I would say my collection tends to involve more Gents in the center, often 
coming out of a swing, going into an allemande L 1-1/2, to swing on the other 
side, but that’s just an empirical feeling because I notice having to pull 
dances from a program if too many have that transition.

 

Thanx, Ric Goldman

Portland, OR

 

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Subject: [Callers] Dance Variety

 

As I programed my dance evenings for this weekend, I noticed that close to 80% 
of my dance cards have just the Ladies in the center doing something,  About 
10% have the Gents going in, and the remaining 10% or so have both the Lady and 
the Gent, or neither the Lady or the Gent going in.  

 

My observations consider a Hey and Half hey as neutral, and as such I did not 
include the hey in my estimations.  However if the hey was set up by an 
allemande or chain, those basics were considered.

 

Is this unique to my collection or this generally true of contra dances?

 

Rich Sbardella

Stafford, CT

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