Re: [Callers] Community Dance

At the suggestion of a friend, I have decided to change the Faceboook Page to a Facebook Group. The group is simply called "Community Dance" and this link should lead you there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/998379520248723/ Rich Sbardella On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Rich Sbardella

Re: [Callers] Callers Digest, Vol 24, Issue 2

> > "While I am sensitive to cultural issues, until someone comes up with a > term > that captures not only the physics of the move, but also the flirtatious > nature of it, I will probably grimace any time someone uses a different > term. ...It is more than a figure, it is a figure with an

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

Whoops, didn't see the "please move on" request. Please disregard. -- Alan On 4/4/2016 3:13 PM, Winston, Alan P. via Callers wrote: On 4/4/2016 9:10 AM, Darwin Gregory via Callers wrote: While I am relatively new to contra, and just called my first dance this weekend, The Baby Rose...

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

On 4/4/2016 9:10 AM, Darwin Gregory via Callers wrote: While I am relatively new to contra, and just called my first dance this weekend, The Baby Rose... I'll have never considered gypsy a term related to a race of people, nor did I know it was applied today to a group of people called

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

A description of how to capture the actual originator (not just the list) sent to Dave off-list. Thanx, Ric From: Callers [mailto:callers-boun...@lists.sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Dave Casserly via Callers Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 6:54 AM To: Caller's discussion list

Re: [Callers] Community Dance

I have been asked to post a link to the Facebook page. Try this: https://www.facebook.com/Community-Dance-361393070697776/ On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Rich Sbardella wrote: > Hello folks, > > I have set up a "Community Dance" Facebook Page as a place to share

Re: [Callers] Community Dance

Wow sounds great!  Laurie P West MI Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, April 4, 2016, 3:59 PM, Rich Sbardella via Callers wrote: Hello folks,  I have set up a "Community Dance" Facebook Page as a place to share family friendly community dances with

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

Hello Ron: You wrote:  "My post said I found 3 points "interesting", and listed the three points.  I didn't even link the article on Shared Weight in the first place."     Is it bizarre for readers of this thread to assume you listed the three points because you approved or agreed with them?

[Callers] Community Dance

Hello folks, I have set up a "Community Dance" Facebook Page as a place to share family friendly community dances with each other. My expectation is that the page will be a place to swap dances, and to provide information regarding caller/leader training opportunities. This page is not intended

Re: [Callers] Triplet Times Through?

I believe that the "traditional" method is 3 times fully prompted, 3 times partially prompted and 3 times with no prompt. -- Michael Barraclough mich...@michaelbarraclough.com www.michaelbarraclough.com -Original Message- From: Don Veino via Callers

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

All, Once again, the gypsy discussion has erupted in personal attacks and discussion that is not friendly or courteous. This topic seems to be a trigger for people, prompting responses that I don’t think you would say if you were face-to-face. Please move on. Seth & Chris

Re: [Callers] Teaching the Cloverleaf?

Unfortunately I can't help with the teaching tips here, but I will offer a caution: watch your audience for cloverleaf dances. I find the cloverleaf to be one of the few contra moves which has a higher potential injury to reward ratio, particularly sensitive shoulders. I've seen some bad behavior

[Callers] Triplet Times Through?

I've been adding Triplets into my programs in certain situations and have given some thought about the duration to run them. I'm curious what others have determined - how many times through do *you* run a Triplet? Let's see if we can get a consensus value via a simple poll:

[Callers] Fw: Teaching the Cloverleaf?

Good dance - I have called it many times Down the hall - stop - NO ONE LETS GO OF HANDS! -  center 2 turn around turning away from each other and bring arms over.  End 2 take hands behind in a cozy line of 4 - up the hall, center 2 duck to allow ends arms to pas over to clover.  Walk thru each

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Michael Fuerst via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > You owe everyone on this list an apology > > > And that's the problem right there. Demanding apologies or insisting people will change their mind if you just reword things slightly is how the

[Callers] Teaching the Cloverleaf?

I have yet to call a dance with a cloverleaf in it because I am not comfortable with teaching the walk thru. The Connectrix by Rick Mohr has such a cloverleaf. Any suggestions on good teaching language, and any other dances with such a cloverleaf would be welcomed. Thanks, Rich Sbardella CT

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

While I am relatively new to contra, and just called my first dance this weekend, The Baby Rose... I'll have never considered gypsy a term related to a race of people, nor did I know it was applied today to a group of people called Romas. However, my general position on terms that have both

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

Ron:   You wrote:  "I don't want to cause anyone pain, intended or not."    Do you see anything bizarre in not wanting to cause anyone intended pain? You wrote:  "If you are a World War II survivor, please contact me privately and I will apologize to you if I've caused you pain."One speculates

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote: > Ron Blechner: >> >> 3. That perhaps the use of "gypsy" as a term isn't as bad as non-Roma >> self-identitying as "dance gypsies". Roma wander because they are >> persecuted or can't find work. When we talk about "dance gypsies" >> beig

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

Hello Ron: Your statement  "we're comparing our having fun traveling to various dances to the widespread persecution of an ethnicity (the worst being the Holocaust)." was an intentional, malicious, misguided   personal attack on every contradancer who speaks the words "dance gypsy," who uses the

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

Thank you, Michael. The term for the WWII tragedy still evokes a lot of pain for those who survived it and their descendants, and hopefully will have no further use in a forum devoted to dancing - Bob Ron: "we're comparing our having fun traveling to various dances to the widespread

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

I also don't want to read any more of Michael's replies, particularly on this issue (but also on others: see the comparing shadow swings to groping, etc). Several people have asked him to stop, but he won't. But I don't think "this list isn't working" just because some of us think one person is

Re: [Callers] here it is - sorry

I'm really tired of personal attacks here on Shared Weight, and a high percentage comes from one person. I've asked Michael Fuerst to not contact me again. I've already cut down my usage, but if we can't trade ideas without having them called "bizarre" and "absurd", then this list isn't working.

[Callers] videos of rolling starts / musical walk thrus

Are there any videos out there of band/callers doing rolling starts or musical walk thrus? Seth Tepfer Director of Administrative Computing Oxford College 770-784-8487 seth.tep...@emory.edu Use AskIT for fastest response: