Here's another walk
through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQ5kJJFO5s
The dance is Forty Mohr Years ("Ohio" version) by Sue
Rosen. https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=25
This dance progresses in the first "A", so you can do one walk through
while heads of sets wait out, and then roll everyone in with the music
for the second round.
It was getting late, way past my normal bed time, so I made a couple of
small mistakes. I missed the opportunity to start the walk through with
the ending partner swing. I like starting there because it gets
everyone to orient with partners on a home side and sets the
transition/flow to the top of the tune in body memory. I also flubbed
the B1 walk through. If you call this with good timing and keep the
flow, dancers will understand the flow and forces more experientially.
I let the momentum die while I stumbled on words - explaining anchors
and the chain.
Timothy
Knoxville TN
On Fri, 2024-02-16 at 21:14 -0500, Timothy Klein via Contra Callers
wrote:
> After several discussions with new callers about a lack of dance walk
> through videos, I've started recording some of mine (when I can
> remember!). This past weekend (Cabin Fever, Knoxville TN), I had the
> wonderful help of Jim Crawford to add footage from the floor and to
> mix in the house audio. I'm sharing that here for whatever benefit it
> brings folks.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMBy8Q5ft4
>
> Some interesting things happened that changed how I called this
> dance:
> - The lines were crowded, so I backed the gents up to suggest that
> they cross the gent in the next set by the right (overlapping
> orbits).
> - There was some confusion about shadows, but it really doesn't
> matter who that is, so I ignored/squashed questions about direction
> and just let the dancers muddle into it.
> - I'm started at B2 in order to put the pass through progression at
> the end of the dance (making the dance improper.) I do this sometimes
> for reasons that I don't always recall.
>
> I hope these videos prove to be useful.
>
> Timothy
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