Re: [Callers] Gender Free MWSD

2017-10-08 Thread Aahz via Callers
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017, Jeremy Child via Callers wrote: > > I have a question for anyone who calls or dances Gender Free MWSD (by > Gender Free I mean where no assumptions are made about what role a dancer > will take based on their gender). For pedantic reasons, I'll note that MWSD doesn't use

Re: [Callers] Gender Free MWSD

2017-10-08 Thread Aahz via Callers
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017, Donna Hunt via Callers wrote: > > Our callers are fantastic and I'm sure this isn't easy for them to > call without visual identifiers, but calling by definition shouldn't > need that...unless the sets get out of sorts. Not sure why you think "calling by definition"

Re: [Callers] Gender Free MWSD

2017-10-08 Thread Donna Hunt via Callers
Well, I'm not a MWSD caller, so I don't know what's involved, so if I used the wrong words to describe it perhaps you can help. What I know is that the callers know where the dancers are after a figure (by definition of the figure) and then they know what figure to call next to build the

Re: [Callers] Gender Free MWSD

2017-10-08 Thread Aahz via Callers
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017, Donna Hunt via Callers wrote: > > Well, I'm not a MWSD caller, so I don't know what's involved, so if I > used the wrong words to describe it perhaps you can help. > > What I know is that the callers know where the dancers are after a > figure (by definition of the figure)

[Callers] Results of Calling After an Absence of 18 Months

2017-10-08 Thread John Freeman via Callers
Hi All, I posted a request for suggestions on preparing for an upcoming dance a couple of weeks ago. I had not called a dance in 18 months, and had expected to stay on “emeritus” status. Thank you for your suggestions! You helped buck me up and get my head back in the game. The dance was an