Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

If someone tells me to rotate then I will turn on the spot :-) The move is called Box Circulate. It doesn't make sense to me to use "rotate" instead of "circulate". When you are calling then using instructions such as Men Cross, Ladies Turn (or just Circulate once they have got it) is obviously

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

I've heard "rotate" used for calling this figure. I think I may have used that myself. Jonathan On 1/7/2019 2:45 AM, Lenore Frigo via Callers wrote: I'm planning to call a dance with a box circulate, for the first time, and got to thinking, how do you call it during the dance? Do you use

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

I teach the box circulate using a right-hand star, moving it one place and then pointing out that the circulation is the same thing, just without hands. Several people have made a point of telling me that it was the most effective way they’ve seen of teaching it, which pleased me as it was the

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

I just call 'gents cross' or 'ladies cross'  No one has trouble figuring it out Mac McKeever On Monday, January 7, 2019, 2:46:15 AM CST, Lenore Frigo via Callers wrote: I'm planning to call a dance with a box circulate, for the first time, and got to thinking, how do you call it

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

Hi Lenore, I've heard the phrase, "Gents cross, ladies loop; ladies cross, gents loop," during the dance. I'll let someone else talk through the teaching part. -Amy On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 12:46 AM Lenore Frigo via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net wrote: > I'm planning to call a dance

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

So something I heard Lisa Heywood do, that worked really well, was to get everyone to walk single file in a little circle. Then she added the stops in the waves for the balances. She also made it easier on the dancers by calling a dances with a complete box circulate in ie you went all the way

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

Back in the 1980's, when I first encountered dances with this figure, the term "Box Circulate" hadn't been coined as far as I know. I've only been hearing that term fairly recently (which could easily be 10 years or more I suppose, I don't know when it was first used). Back then the term I

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

Jonathan and all, Yep, here's a dance, NOMAD'S LAND, I composed in 1997, even by then *I*, at least, didn't have a name for the figure. Read the notes at the bottom.. http://www.billolsondance.com/nomads.html bill From: Callers on behalf of Jonathan Sivier

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:26 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers wrote: > > Back in the 1980's, when I first encountered dances with this figure, the > term "Box Circulate" hadn't been coined as far as I know. I've only been > hearing that term fairly recently (which could easily be 10 years or more

Re: [Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

I have been using "Circulate" as the call, after seeing that people got the general idea of the figure during teaching. I have always liked this technique borrowed from another caller (I forget who now...) for teaching purposes: During the walk-through (after seeing that people have gotten into

[Callers] Calling a "box circulate"

I'm planning to call a dance with a box circulate, for the first time, and got to thinking, how do you call it during the dance? Do you use the actual word "circulate"? That seems clunky to me.I can think of lots of possible alternatives, but was wondering if there's a word that is commonly used.