Re: [Callers] Ralph Page Style

I started contra dancing in 1980, so got in on the tail end of the period when the "Chestnuts" were staples of the repertoire and well known to many dancers. The way I remember dancing the transition from the end of one round of "Rory O'More" to the beginning of the next was for the active

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

Here's a couple of 5-couple dances in Levi Jackson formation: http://dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#Rubigold http://dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#Sundowner Click the Call Sheet button to see and print the instructions. Cheers Keith Wood Over the past several years, we have had

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Thanks. I'll attribute it to Mark Goodwin. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Michael Barraclough via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I have that exact dance as To Wedded Bliss by Mark Goodwin (2014). I use > that in my Lesson and then, after teaching ladies chain and right &

Re: [Callers] Ralph Page Style

One of the reasons I wrote “Hot Cross Bunny” was because I love the transition of swinging, facing up, and going proper down the outside, but I don’t like the wait to be active. So it’s a double-progression dance, and usually everyone gets their chance to be active. In a crowd that won’t be

Re: [Callers] Ralph Page Style

Hi Martha and all, guess we're diverging from the original subject here, but I always had an interest in a contra corners dance that was useable for long sets.. That, to me anyway, meant double progression and possibly a swing for the inactives (just in case).. Here's the dance I wrote almost

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

As someone with an academic background in the field of Folklore, the way we talk about attribution and authorship bothers me. (NOTE: what I'm talking about here is distinct from trying to track down the source of a dance you collected somewhere, or according respect to the first person to dream

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Regarding attribution, I like the way David Kaynor puts it on this website: "Some of my dances are "compositions" only in the loosest sense of the word; they fall into the category of "glossary" contras which basically amount to minimally imaginative resequencing of ordinary contra dance elements.

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Recently it has pretty much been the custom to attribute dance authorship to the first one who came up with the sequence. I agree that Luke came up with this sequence independently but someone else did that before him. It's only fair, since it's not unlikely that the second author (Luke, me,

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Neal Schlein via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > So please...if you came up with a dance put your name on it along with > some of the details---and then tell me who else came up with it, too. > Don't just stick their name on it. > > ​An

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Yep, I agree.. bill From: Callers on behalf of Dave Casserly via Callers Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 7:25 PM To: Neal Schlein Cc: callers Subject: Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Re: [Callers] Pre-existing dance?

Lots of interesting points, thanks for sharing! >From my perspective, while I know that I lay in bed thinking about dance moves and came up with the sequence; I can not say that in the last decade+ of dancing, I haven't already danced it. Did I write it then, yes. Under the influence of some