Hello callers-
Many of you will be at the new England Folk Festival this weekend. Well guess
what--
NEFFA has gone mobile! Festival schedule, maps, alerts, more on your
iPhone/Android.
Use your mobile to get the free app from Conventionist
http://cvi.st/getit
I look forward to seeing you
Can I offer another 2 cents worth?
Every notice how when we have one of the great callers - the dancers listen to
every words and follow the directions more readily? That is not an accident -
but a real skill. Everything they say is important - even if they are just
thanking the sound guy.
Keith wrote:
>-Greg is right, some criteria are level-dependent.
I want to clarify the cognitive frame I am using here. I see these
different venues as having very different purposes and the caller has a very
different role in each one. The "level" of calling ability, in my framing,
would not
I have settled on using Google Docs spreadsheet to manage my dances. For
the most part, it works really well. The only limitation I've encountered
is I can't search the entire document, only one tab at a time. Each tab is
a different dance and I have a format for entering the dance and the
Hi all,
I'm calling a couple of community dances this summer for a non-profit
that mentors adult artists with varying developmental disabilities. A
high proportion of the dancers will be their clients, or other
similarly-disabled clients of the parent organization. The mentors
and other
My band, the Racket Factory, played for a dance at a home for
developmentally disabled adults last summer. Hank Washburn did the calling
for us that night, and worked up a number of dances that could work for
dancers in wheelchairs pushed by staff from the home. I have been meaning to
type them up
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:19:21 -0700, Will Kruse wrote:
> To those who have explore technological options for organizing your
> dances, what have you come up with? I'm starting to see more
> laptops, PDAs, tablets, and smartphones at dances so does anyone
> know how that's working? What software
Cooperation. Creativity. Clarity.
-Barb's right, the band will be the arbiter of how well the dance turns out.
Grant's replly might be flippant, but it's largely true. But the question is
what makes the caller great...
-Talking to the band ahead of time. I've worked with bands that want my
Thanks Linda. I remember attending it several years ago, and I am at work now
so I could not look it up in my copy of the past years schedules. Thanks for
pointing Chrissy in the right direction (and me too!). But I do remember the
session I attended as being presented by a woman - I can't
Actually, Dave, we continue to have this session at NEFFA! It has
occurred every year for the last 4 or 5 years, and will happen again
this Festival. It is called Seated Squares. Fred Wersan and the
Assabet Ramblers present the dance. You can look up Fred's email
information at the NEFFA
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