Hi Luke, In my case I'm usually looking for a pair or sometimes a trio of factors - a specific semi-distinctive move (hey, petronella, etc), a mood/feel/energy/emotion, and sometimes a difficulty. I'm not normally on a blind search unless I know what hole I need to fill but don't have a dance that addresses it. I can usually search online dance dumps for distinct moves and often dance difficulty, but it's harder to search by mood or feel of a dance... It's also frustratingly difficult to to a negative search when trying to find the right dances as well - being able to look for dances with X that don't have Y would be invaluable (full hey, no LLFB, for example).
Regardless of the format, I love getting other dances from folks and compositions published online are the #1 way things end up in my box. Let me know what you settle on - I'm not particularly happy with the format I'm using at the moment either. All the best, Isaac Banner --- http://www.oldmacdonaldhadafarmeie.io/ On Sat, Nov 4, 2017, 8:26 PM Luke Donforth via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I currently have a terrible system for publishing dances I've written on > the web (blog-esque thing in wordpress; really hard to search through). > There's been talk on and off of a big database of dances, but that doesn't > seem to be happening so I thought I should do something for mine. > > I'm contemplating better ways of making dances my compositions more > accessible; and since that would be for other people, I'm curious what's > useful for other people. > > I'm envisioning four categories of dances; and then just lists of dances > (title & sequence) on those pages. The categories I had in mind: > Family dances > Glossary contras > Unique contras > Odd formations > > Are there separate things you'd want to see in a list of dances when > you're going through? Beckets, Closing dances, bouncy/smooth, etc. > > I've gotten really attached to Callers Companion ( > http://callerscompanion.com/), and really like how it lets searches > happen on dances. Anyone have a good way to incorporate that, or the type > of element checklist/flag it provides, into a web-based interface for > dances? > > It might also be that most folks don't collect dances from websites; and > this is wasted time. But it does seem like I've obfuscated finding my > compositions, and I regret not making them more available. > > Thoughts, opinions, experience, and advice appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > Luke Donforth > [email protected] <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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