I visualize as a dancer,. If I can I try to actually dance the dance with "visualized" other dancers, usually do it for both roles. So I will call it out loud, so the caller IS involved, I guess, but only as a voice, no thought given to location. - bill
________________________________ From: Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Contra Callers <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 2:35 PM To: Jerome Grisanti <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Fuerst <[email protected]>; Shared Weight Contra Callers <[email protected]> Subject: [Callers] Re: Visualization of contra dances by callers and composers I don't understand the question. I try to visualize it as a dancer, and I imagine the locations of the other dancers. Why would I give any thought to where the caller is? Jacob [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://jacobbloom.net/ On Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 7:57 AM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I put the caller behind me on stage with the band, as I myself take the vantage of the #1 Lark, then the #1 Robin on a second time through. If the composition is asymmetrical, I then take on the vantage point of the #2 couple. Jerome 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 On Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 2:42 AM Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: As a caller and/or dance composer, when mentally visualizing a dance do you put the caller at the top or bottom of your mental simulation. If the dance is Becket, do you put the caller off to the right or left? _______________________________________________ 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]>
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