Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

for Modern Jive Events > & DVDs > > http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent > > > > > *From:* Meg Dedolph [mailto:meg.dedo...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 07 February 2017 13:21 > *To:* John Sweeney <j...@modernjive.com>; callers@lists.sharedweight.net >

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

John Sweeney <j...@modernjive.com>; callers@lists.sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice? Ha! I read that book, but I thought I came up with that trick on my own. Maybe I remembered it long after I read it and thought I'd invented it. :) Meg

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Hi Amy, I've been calling squares for a long time. If they are western/southern squares, they are very different than contras, and the caller's role is very different, both in terms of the dancers and of the music/band. If the dances are New England quadrilles, then they are essentially

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

I am with you on leaving out the allemande entirely, John. Works out so much better for some groups to simply “face Partner, grand right & Left”. Linda On Feb 7, 2017, at 4:53 AM, John Sweeney via Callers wrote: > Meg said, "I have better luck teaching that to

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Ha! I read that book, but I thought I came up with that trick on my own. Maybe I remembered it long after I read it and thought I'd invented it. :) Meg On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:58 AM John Sweeney via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Meg said, "I have better luck teaching that to

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Meg said, "I have better luck teaching that to beginners if I teach the grand right and left first and *then* add the allemande left, rather than teach it in the sequence it's presented in the dance." The same advice was given by Lloyd Shaw in "Cowboy Dances" in 1939: "It is so simple that it

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } I find the simple square is fun and accessible to any group. Done it for kids, teens, older adults, festivals. It's the old

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Calling Square Dances by Scott Russell.docx Description: MS-Word 2007 document Here’s a piece I wrote several years ago. I hope it’s of help. > On Feb 4, 2017, at 12:26 PM, Amy Cann via Callers > wrote: > > It's a friendly low-key local community dance, and

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Tips I found that helped me, presented in random order: Pick one or two squares to watch, preferably with more experienced dancers, and call to them. It will help with the timing. When I started calling squares, a friend helpfully pointed out that I was waiting for the tops of the musical

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Amy, Could you say more about the group you'll be calling for? By a "... local community dance" do you mean that it's a regular (e.g., monthly or weekly) series where most of the attendees will be repeat dancers, thus somewhat experienced at whatever kind of dancing the series features? Or is

Re: [Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

Here is my experience in calling squares for the first time, for what it is worth. I had been calling contras for several years and thought I would like to expand my repertoire to include some squares. I chose what I thought was a fairly straightforward square that had been done by the

[Callers] ACK! First time calling night of *squares* -- any last minute advice?

It's a friendly low-key local community dance, and they know I'm mainly a contra caller, so the potential for hurled tomatoes is low -- but I still want to not stink too much. Any suggestions for dance choices or thought-habit adjustments? Back to scribbling on my 3x5 cards and re-reading Lloyd