While looking for more videos of contra dancing in Denmark, I instead came
across a video in which Danish caller Else Bach Nielsen calls a
New-England-style square (coincidentally written by Tom Hinds) to the music of
visiting American band Phantom Power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJV6_2SWg0s (~116 BPM)
I don't know whether the caller set the tempo or left it the band.
--Jim
On Sep 22, 2019, at 6:55 PM, jim saxe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I looked for videos of contra dancing in Denmark and found these three:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhxwVuoI2g (119-120 BPM)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4KB-uSWkKc (117-118 BPM)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ALEBBtUbc (~113 BPM)
>
> These all seem to be from the same event. It's possible that a wider
> sampling of contra dances in Denmark (which may not be available Youtube)
> would support Tom's recollection of faster tempos.
> ...
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