My understanding has been that this is a traditional Danish dance, called a Familiavalz (which means Family Waltz). Is that incorrect? Jacob Bloom
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 10:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks for all the references and tips! I > actually own several of those sources, books I've skimmed once or twice but > not lately. > > I'm calling as the last dance of the evening at a regular series event, > but this particular event also honors a long-time dancer from the > Louisville community who died last summer. Several of us think she would > appreciate the waltz mixer. > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 9:31 PM Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's better than my "Travelers" and >> "Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts". >> >> (I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk >> people or a lot of kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner >> they lined up with, and you can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no >> Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind someone who isn't traveling.) >> >> -- Alan >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Sue C. Hulsether via Contra Callers < >> [email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:14 PM >> To: Don Veino; [email protected] >> Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author >> >> BEWARE: This email originated outside of our organization. DO NOT CLICK >> links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content >> is safe. >> >> I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance >> doesn’t really have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz >> mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz. >> However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the >> Oslo Waltz. It’s possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz >> has a couples’ waltz for the entire B2. >> >> Author? no clue. >> >> Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and >> One-Shot-Deal gigs and even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts >> and Spinners. >> >> Love.This.Dance. >> >> >> sue >> >> >> Sue Hulsether >> New Day Hoedown LLC >> www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com> >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> 608-632-1267 Cell >> P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers < >> [email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer". >> >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers < >> [email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may >> have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for >> the title and author. >> >> Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center: >> A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from >> Left to Right), Repeat >> A2 Repeat twice more >> B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right, >> ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then >> (letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands. >> Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other >> B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step, >> close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps, >> ending by unfolding to reform a circle. >> >> Thanks for whatever help you can provide! >> >> Jerome Grisanti >> >> >> >> Jerome Grisanti >> 660-528-0858 >> http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/> >> >> "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and >> power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> [email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]> >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> [email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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