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

John--it sounds to me like successive R Grands with a full partner allemande stuck into the middle of each. Could also be a partner 2-hand turn, either interpretation works. As Woody said, with a couple of other notes here: *Music* Talk to your band. Arrange a cut signal to go out at the end

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

Hi Meg, Or you may have seen the Grand Chain, sorry Grand Right & Left for you Americans, without the Allemande in other dance styles. English ceilidh dances don’t bother with the Allemande. And of course it occurred in 1650 dances as well. The earliest record I know of is in

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