Re: [Callers] A Dance without Partner Swing

2018-05-15 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
I agree with John Sweeney, but it all depends. For a large group of beginners, rather than spending time explaining the advantage of having an experienced partner or trying to split beginners up, the simple solution is have a dance where they don't swing together. like: Easier Than Pie by

Re: [Callers] New Square-Through Dance?

2018-01-03 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
It is also only slightly different from "Heritage Reel" By Tony Parkes (May 1988) Heritage Reel     Lm 2x2 ip    Tony Parkes     FS p23b     SoS p23 http://www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus2007.pdf#page=32b B2- Half promenade Ladies half chain and the whole B section is Cis

Re: [Callers] Another occupational hazard for callers

2018-03-12 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
You might also consider how to make a test as to whether there is UV in your environment. I did a little research and turns out there is a little trick you can perform. Highlighter markers rely on UV to make them glow. So if you use one to write on a dark or preferably black piece of cardboard,

Re: [Callers] New (?) simple dance without a neighbor swing

2018-04-20 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
With such a simple dance, one would think so. Along the way I developed a shorthand, which I used to both not put dances too similar into the same program, and build a program with dances which had a definite progression of moves. So I took your dance and quickly found that: There are at least 4

Re: [Callers] Star 1/2 -> Star 1/2?

2018-04-22 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
No disrespect, but This reminds me of a few decades back when a particular programming language introduced some instructions with "WICKED", (I mean WICKED!) side effects. What ensued were many discussions about how to handle these instructions. Whereupon one of my colleagues came up with

Re: [Callers] New Dance?

2019-07-02 Thread billinhi--- via Callers
Oui!!! ... and you may have actually seen the dance before, ... because it is on You tube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7xhFARmQ0 (love the flashers...) and variations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfB_5CPTsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Qfx_VHm8k Bill Fay Honolulu (And thanks