Nice! I called King's Quadrille for a group of Modern Western Square Dancers tonight (after explaining how the timing worked), and they loved it!
Thanks for sharing! Jimmy Akin San Diego On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:41 AM Rich Sbardella via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Amy, > > My interpretation is that a quadrille is a square prompted in the New > England tradition. > > In the modern western tradition few callers use this method, but I was > taught by New England caller Dick Leggier who composed many promoted > 'quadrille" figures to use in the MWSD environment. This is still my > method of calling squares in the club scene. > > I am not sure why I understand it that way. Word of mouth is a > contributor, but also older publications like Sets in Order often referred > to many of these simple 64 step dances as quadrilles. > > Here's one Jerry Helt called by from Tony. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9d46BSqRLI > > Rich > Rich > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:26 PM Amy Cann via Contra Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> What do you think of as a quadrille, tune and/or dance? >> >> I'm very curious to hear as many different answers as there are >> ages/locations/opinions on here. :) >> >> (Tell you why *after* we have a nice long thread. :) >> >> Cheers, >> Amy >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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