Syp Simeon
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 2:41 PM Rich Sbardella via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Don,
> I've been at a party when Jerry Helt called a sit dance, but I could not
> find a video link. Here is the closest I could come. When I danced it,
The Lambertville ECD site is pointing to a copy of Samuel, Ann, and Peter
Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1782, on the Vaughan
Williams Memorial Library website. There are a couple of things that the
term "allemande" could mean in 1782, but the one that seems correct for
that
If you ever do triplets at your dance, you could teach the figure in a
triplet first. Ted's Triplet #7 uses it, if I recall correctly.
Jacob
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 5:30 PM Richard Hart via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net wrote:
> I’d make sure that the dancers had already successfully
Grand Square Contra (also known as Fox Hollow Fancy) uses the grand square
figure.
Jacob
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 4:27 PM Woody Lane via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi Rachel,
>
> Mike Richardson of Seattle wrote the dance "Now We Are Three" that uses
> Tag-the-Line. Erik
WITH BEGINNERS, AVOID RIGHTS AND LEFTS! Half of them will turn right when
they should have turned left, and the other half will turn all the way
around and look back at the person they just walked past. To experienced
dancers they seem similar to a ladies chain, but people who have never done
Does anybody call Show of Hands by Melanie Axel-Lute? I have the first
figure as neighbor allemande right once around in eight beats, which is
enough time to go twice around. Is there some reason the extra time is
necessary? Or should it be twice around?
Jacob Bloom
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One thing is missing from this discussion, and that is a recognition that
some embellishments occur between dancers who are dancing the same role.
For example, if the dance calls for two gents or two ladies to allemande
left once around, one those two dancers might start leading an allemande
twice
The original 4-face-4 with a Grand Square (and the original 4-face-4 in
which the couples changed sides during the course of the dance) was my
Grand Square Contra:
Forward and Back, all swing corner
Sides face, Grand Square
Reverse
Side couples pass thru, Head couples pass thru, all swing partner
I don't think correctness needs to be considered. As long as the dancers
understand that they're going to do something with the person next to them
who isn't their partner, I'm happy, and either term conveys that.
Nowadays I think that I'm more likely to hear the word neighbor come out of
my
It isn't necessary to hire a person who can do a loud whistle - you can buy
a loud whistle for a few dollars, and hang it from a lanyard.
Here's another technique for calling for quiet which I have seen work,
although I haven't used it myself.
"If you can hear my voice clap once. If you can
My dance You Married My Daughter (written in 1987) has a Ladies Chain into
an Allemande Left, although I find it less confusing to teach it as "ladies
pull by, allemande left with the opposite gent.
You Married My Daughter
Jacob Bloom
Duple Improper
Balance in long lines (gents facing out),
I'll echo this viewpoint. I value the opportunity to go different places
and learn different ways of doing things. I feel that much more is lost in
uniformity than is gained.
Jacob
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Chet Gray via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> In regards to
Here's a link to the sheet music for the tune that was used for Alfred
Hitchcock Presents, in case you want to have it for your musicians. It's
called, "Funeral March of a Marionette."
http://makingmusicfun.net/pdf/sheet_music/march-of-the-marionette-piano.pdf
Jacob
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at
When I attended the Berea Christmas Dance School forty years ago, and put
my hand on the wrist in front of me during a walk through, someone
complained, saying, "He said a star, not a mill!"
Is the term "mill", or the term "millstone", commonly used to refer to
wrist stars in areas where
That chassee and heel, toe, heel, toe combination is essentially a chassee
and beaten step combination, very common in 18th century country dances.
The beaten step was not usually specified in the description of the dance,
but was one of the steps that might be used whenever a "footing step" was
Hi Rich,
On such occasions, I use what I think of as my House Dance Special, which
is just a Sicilian Circle straightened out.
Duple, and don't say a word about who is supposed to be on which side of
the set
Circle left, circle right
Right hand star, left hand star
Dosido partner, two hand turn
Claire,
Let me add my voice to those recommending that you get hold of and study
the books by the Laufmans, New England Dancing Masters, and Marion Rose
BEFORE your family dance gig. As a new Family Dance caller, you need to
learn a completely different repertoire than what you've been trying to
Here's some of the dances I've done which haven't already been mentioned.
Set a Crochet - Traditional French Canadian
Couples scatter on floor, then find another couple
As couples, hook left elbows and turn
Circle left
Swing Neighbor, Swing Partner
Borrowdale Exchange - Scatter mixer
I've found You Married My Daughter But Yet You Didn't to be a good
alternative tune for Levi Jackson Rag.
Jacob
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Bree Kalb via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Levi Jackson Rag is a favorite of mine but not all bands know the tune.
>
>
Lewis Carroll may have defined the word that way on one occasion, but
Humpty Dumpty defined the word as "to go round and round like a gyroscope."
And Humpty Dumpty was an expert on getting words to mean what you pay them
to mean!
And William Butler Yeats said, in his poem The Second Coming,
For those interested in the historical derivation of our terms:
As Alan said, the Allemande was a couple dance from the late 1700s. In it,
both hands were held, and the arms moved through various positions. This
put the couple in much closer contact than they were in the minuet, in
which the
I've been contacted by someone who is looking for a female square dance
caller for a party on Long Island, NY, in December or January. The
attendees will be 50 twelve-year-old girls.
If anyone would be interested in calling for this gig, please contact me
off-list.
Jacob Bloom
ven in either volume.
I do not have a copy of Sharp's Country Dance Book at hand. Did someone
say that Sharp did not use the term gypsy in it?
Jacob
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Alan Winston <wins...@slac.stanford.edu>
wrote:
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> On 10/24/15 10:32 PM, Jacob Nancy Bloom
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