[Callers] Fuel-efficient dancing

2019-10-07 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
seeking people to carpool with, but not everyone wants to get to the dance as early as the caller has to, nor stay till the bitter end. Richard `` Richard Hopkins 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net

[Callers] Prompting, circa 1890

2019-05-24 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
the general effect. `````````` Richard Hopkins Middlebury, VT 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net ___ List Name: Callers mailing list List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/

[Callers] What is a contra?

2018-06-28 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
, I subtly call the events that I expect to be all-contras ‘contradances’, and the others ‘old-time dances’. I don’t know whether anyone notices. We aren’t the only such organization with ‘old-time’ in our name. Richard Hopkins 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net Sent from my iPh

Re: [Callers] Politically Correct

2018-03-27 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
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[Callers] Name and author for circle mixer?

2017-03-11 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
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[Callers] Does this dance exist?

2016-12-26 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
What is ‘slice’? And is it different from ‘yearn’? Richard `` Richard Hopkins 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net

[Callers] Contra Friendly Squares -- people left over.

2016-10-17 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
with the situation where you have only three or even two couples. Richard `` Richard Hopkins 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net

[Callers] 4 person do-si-do

2015-12-01 Thread Richard Hopkins via Callers
Paso. That’s not to say that the figure you are describing isn’t a good one for your dance; it’s just another reason to avoid calling it a dosido. Richard `` Richard Hopkins Tallahassee FL 850-544-7614 hopkin...@comcast.net > On De

[Callers] Square dance calling in rural Ontario, as described by Alice Munro

2013-11-26 Thread Richard Hopkins
ernational. `````` Richard Hopkins Tallahassee, FL 850-894-9212 (home) 850-544-7614 (cell) hopkin...@comcast.net

[Callers] Calling squares at contra

2013-09-11 Thread Richard Hopkins
? Saying you would never call any squares at a contra dance is of course a valid response. Richard Richard Hopkins hopkin...@comcast.net 850-894-9212 850-544-7614 cell Sent from my iPad

[Callers] Squares for contra-dancers

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Hopkins
after all"? (This is assuming you have asked and the organizers haven't told you they expect all contras). I am programming this Friday's Tallahassee dance right now, so this is not just an academic question. Richard Hopkins hopkin...@comcast.net 850-894-9212 850-544

[Callers] Squares for contra-dancers

2013-09-08 Thread Richard Hopkins
c question. Richard Hopkins hopkin...@comcast.net 850-894-9212 850-544-7614 cell Sent from my iPad

[Callers] How do you balance?

2013-04-26 Thread Richard Hopkins
ing it's all in the arms, and > there is always tension in the arms. Richard Hopkins Hopkinsrs at Comcast.net 8508949212

Re: [Callers] Suggestions for particularly flirty contra dances?

2013-04-11 Thread Richard Hopkins
In older contra dances, danced duple or triple proper, same-sex right-and-left-through moves are common -- that is, a R and L through started from a position where two men are facing two women. Through the folk process, we have largely abandoned that practice, and either don't call those