[Callers] Mentorship for Callers and Choreographers

I'm puzzled that Will Mentor has not chimed into the recent discussions here Michael Fuerst      802 N Broadway      Urbana IL 61801   217-239-5844

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Wow. I'm really glad to hear that some of you are doing this sort of thing! And yes, it's a bit obsessive to be doing it once a week, but I really hope that more people will try it - start less often if you must, but it's the sort of thing that can be done anywhere, in the middle of

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Those calling parties do sound like a good idea, and they sound similar to 3 regular dances that we have here in NH. There are 3 regular dances here where there is always an open mike for callers, and musicians can join the band, or play for a dance or two themselves. Calling is shared at

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Martha's calling parties sounds like a great tool for new callers as well as new dances. Too often I have attended an open, public contra dance and heard a local caller announce that they will be calling the next dance at a festival, or dance camp, and want to "try it out" at our event before

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:55 PM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] Mentorship for Choreographers Martha wrote about calling parties. Partly inspired by the Webster Grove calling parties, by the "house dances" and "Potter's Porch" tradition, and partly by the availability of a dance space

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Martha wrote about calling parties. Partly inspired by the Webster Grove calling parties, by the "house dances" and "Potter's Porch" tradition, and partly by the availability of a dance space for $25/night, I've been organizing "Woodshed dances" for the last year and a half. Callers split

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I've said this before, but this may be a good thread on which to repeat it. One of the unexpected delights of our Calling Parties, set up to give us a place to call dances in private before we call them in public, to find out where the trouble spots might be, has been the development of dance

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Back to the original Q, sort of... I went to a 1-day caller's workshop in OKC in '01 where I caught the calling bug a little, but the locals who taught did no "mentoring" to anyone who took the workshop after that. In '05 I decided to take the plunge, and told the local Austin TX callers. Several

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a fraud just because they know how much they don't know. Rich - Reply message - From: "Winston, Alan P." <wins...@slac.stanford.edu> To: "Callers discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> Subject: [Callers] mentorship Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 5:49 pm

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rchner <barbkirch...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship To: call...@sharedweight.net List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 5:20 PM disagree.  one thing i learned from my university years (besides some things about plants) was that it was CRITICAL t

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; From: mjerryfue...@yahoo.com > To: call...@sharedweight.net > Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship > > Perry wrote: " I've danced to a few nationally-known callers who I don't > think are very good at all." Without mentioning names, what did or didn't > these natio

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y of my drawings and paintings are at www.ArtComesFuerst.com --- On Thu, 5/10/12, Perry Shafran <ps...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Perry Shafran <ps...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> List-Post: callers@li

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n Thu, 5/10/12, Ron T Blechner <contra...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Ron T Blechner <contra...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 3:12

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where I focused on square calling.  Nowadays though I find myself on the other end of giving callers guest spots whenever they ask.   Perry --- On Tue, 5/8/12, Ron T Blechner <contra...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Ron T Blechner <contra...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship T

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.   Perry --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Michael Fuerst <mjerryfue...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Michael Fuerst <mjerryfue...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] Mentorship for Choreographers To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweigh

[Callers] mentorship

-239-5844 --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Rich Goss <richg...@comcast.net> wrote: From: Rich Goss <richg...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Wednesday, May 9

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I may have missed it, but I haven't seen William Watson's excellent collection of caller resources. http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/ Rich

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would subscribe to both, and read both. I feel that the distinction would be most beneficial. ~ Laurie P West MI~ --- On Tue, 5/8/12, Mark Hillegonds <mhillego...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: Mark Hillegonds <mhillego...@comcast.net> > Subject: [Callers] Mentorship

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...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Ron T Blechner Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:36 PM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship Hi Lynn & SW: When I first was dabbling in the idea of calling, last summer, Marty Fager from CDNY was a person I bounced ideas off, and he was happy to s

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Agree with Brian - sharing dances here would be a most useful resource for increasing one's repertoire! Perry Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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I love the idea, and I would utilize it as a very useful resource. I'm not so concerned about deeing possibly inferior material ... I'd be interested in the exchange of ideas. Bring it on! Brian Hamshar Virginia Alan Winston wrote: >On 5/8/2012 6:35 PM, Mark

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This sounds great! A centralized resource for sharing dances -- new or not -- is something I would consult and post to often. Brian Hamshar Virginia Mark Hillegonds wrote: >Hi all, > >I've been following with interest the discussion on calling and mentorships. >Ron

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Hi Mark, I pretty much agree with Alan. For me calling and choreography are intertwined and this forum is the ideal place for new dances. Cheers, Bill

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et> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] Mentorship for Choreographers On 5/8/2012 6:35 PM, Mark Hillegonds wrote: > It's been my experience that unless one is a well-known choreographer > (Ravitz, >Hume, Ormand, Sanella, Olsen, and any number of others) it can be

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On 5/8/2012 6:35 PM, Mark Hillegonds wrote: > It's been my experience that unless one is a well-known choreographer (Ravitz, >Hume, Ormand, Sanella, Olsen, and any number of others) it can be difficult get >new dances into the light of day and, in the theme of mentorship, get feedback on

[Callers] Mentorship for Choreographers

Hi all, I've been following with interest the discussion on calling and mentorships. Ron Blechner mentioned choreographers in his recent post and I'd like to expand on that a bit, so starting a new thread. It's been my experience that unless one is a well-known choreographer (Ravitz, Hume,

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Ron wrote, "One of the biggest challenges is learning dances. A library of shared dances would be invaluable." I'll call folks' attention to a resource that's been mentioned here before, the detailed syllabi from the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend:

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on, Alan P." <wins...@slac.stanford.edu> > To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> > Sent: Mon, May 7, 2012 2:49:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship > > Over in English country dance land, I've gotten a lot of help from Bruce > Hamilton over the years >

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Hi Rich, You were very helpful to me providing resources. I neglected to mention that in my previous email. Cheers, Bill

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Sounds like a great project. I'm currently working to encourage local callers, suppose you could call it mentoring. A couple of them quite actively. Also have mentored to some degree long-distance. The long distance bit mainly is providing resources and being available to discuss upcoming

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Thanks Bill. I have had the tremendous privilege of being allowed to video a number of the dances being called by some of our truly great callers. As the dance video archive project is focused on cataloging the dances, I have restricted my permissions and public postings to that end, and the

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Hi Lynn, > Why am I asking? As a CDSS board member particularly interested in contras, > I'm brainstorming about what a long-distance mentoring program could look like. A long-distance mentoring program would be great. And Bob your idea sounds promising (your video dance archives are a

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Lynne, I have not had a formal mentor, as such, but owe a great deal of gratitude to this list, and especially to Tony Parkes & Dan Pearl for their great warmth and willingness to share. Both have taken time to answer questions and/or sit and chat on the sidelines of a dance talking w/ me about

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nterested in contras, > I'm brainstorming about what a long-distance mentoring program could look > like. > > > > - Original Message > From: "Winston, Alan P." <wins...@slac.stanford.edu> > To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> >

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..@sharedweight.net> Sent: Mon, May 7, 2012 2:49:20 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] mentorship Over in English country dance land, I've gotten a lot of help from Bruce Hamilton over the years (auditing his weekly caller classes in 1985, taking caller classes at English Week), and also taken a bunch

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Over in English country dance land, I've gotten a lot of help from Bruce Hamilton over the years (auditing his weekly caller classes in 1985, taking caller classes at English Week), and also taken a bunch of English and contra caller sessions from other leaders like Scott Higgs. I did a year

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Lynn, I was lucky enough to be one of the many callers mentored by Larry Jennings. He completely changed my ideas about caller responsibilities. I owe him so much. One of the very specific things he did was to force me to recite "walk-throughs" in front of him, over and over, until I developed

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I was introduced to Dudley Laufman by a friend in the spring of 1994. I attended and sat in as a musician with many dances led by him for many years while I lived in NH. He also let me talk shop with him at his place in Canterbury, NH, and let me borrow titles from his huge personal library of

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I don't have a formalized single mentor but draw on the established regular callers in my area (or internet extended area :) for advice and feedback. At least one of these callers created opportunities for me to try out larger venue public calling which nudged me over the hump to try doing a full

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We have a local group (Mad Robin Caller's Collective) that helps new callers along. In the past couple of years we've had workshops focused on total beginners, squares, and chestnuts. There are practice sessions where you can try out and get critiqued on both calling and walk through for a new

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In your calling career, do you now or have you ever had a mentor? If so, who was it and what specific things did they do to help you grow as a caller and a person?     thanks,     Lynn