[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Hi Chet and all, Nice dance. This video shows the formations you mapped out. https://youtu.be/m15ePORDKlc Cheers, Bill On 4/03/2020 10:11 am, Chet Gray via Contra Callers wrote: A1 indecent balance & petronella indecent Becket-ccw balance & petronella A2 progressed imprope

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

Hmm. Not a fan of this way of calling heys—not really a fan of called heys at all. There’s too much going on at once: I have to figure out (e.g., with me a raven) in quick succession: now I’m being a raven, now I’m being a neighbor, now I’m not a lark so I guess I don’t do anything, now I’m bein

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Hmmm… One side is the Men’s side (as defined by the need to be able to draw your sword easily when facing the presence, even if your partner has a wide dress). The other is the Ladies’ Side. If you are on your own side you are Proper, if not you are Improper. (Substitute your favourite words

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Jeff, Grouping the stompy bits in the A and the flowy bits in the B was part of our calculus for settling on the final starting point. — Chet Gray dance caller Louisville, KY (502) 419-7008 <+1-502-419-7008> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 3:45 PM Jeff Kaufman wrote: > FWIW it's a lot easier to pick

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

I'm fine with that. There's clearly overlap between using "proper" and "improper" to refer to the orientation of a couple and to refer to the orientation of a (duple) minor set, and I suspect some regionalism as to which is intended by the speaker. — Chet Gray dance caller Louisville, KY (502) 4

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Dancers stand out Improper on the ends, to prepare for the progressing new neighbors with whom they'll circle left. A1 indecent L1 R1 R2 L2 balance & petronella indecent Becket-ccw R1 L2 L1 R2 balance & petronella A2 progressed improper L2 R2 R1 L1 balance & petronella indecent Becket R2 L1 L2 R1

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

What’s wrong with “Second Couples Improper” if you don’t want to say “Indecent”? Happy dancing, John John Sweeney, Dancer, England j...@modernjive.com 01233 625

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

FWIW it's a lot easier to pick and play music for a dance that is "repeated balances in the A, smooth in the B" than "repeated balances at the beginning of the A and end of the B". On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:12 PM Chet Gray via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I reali

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

It bears some similarity, but it is different enough to be its own dance. I like it! Hal On Tue, Mar 3, 2020, 1:13 PM Chet Gray via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I realized it does bear some similarity to "Don't Think, Dance" by Tavi > Merrill: > Don't Think, Da

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

On this new dance, Name Impending, it’s interesting, and it took me 5 minutes to figure this out but: It can start either improper or reverse-improper. That’s because, either way, three Petronella turns put you on the Lark’s side with your partner (one with the Lark on the left, the other with

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

I realized it does bear some similarity to "Don't Think, Dance" by Tavi Merrill: Don't Think, Dance by: *Tavi Merrill * formation: indecent A1 8 balance & petronella directly into... 8 Partners swing A2 8 Robins chain 8 Robins start a half hey - rights in c

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Whoops, you're entirely correct, Greg, thanks for the correction, I neglected to change the formation after I rotated the sequence. It is indecent, and it could indeed begin either indecent or improper. — Chet Gray dance caller Louisville, KY (502) 419-7008 <+1-502-419-7008> On Tue, Mar 3, 202

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

I’m with you, Martha! All that “ravens pass left, neighbours pass right” stuff is just noise to me (and always was, even as a new dancer)—I always wondered who they were talking to up there—I couldn’t imagine how anyone could process all that information coming at them like a machine gun!). I ju

[Callers] Re: First composition! Has it been written?

Hi Chet, I probably missed something in the instructions, but it looks to me like the dance is indecent (robins left, larks right facing up and down). Due to a peculiarity of the choreography, it can start improper, but will end indecent every time after that. Is that correct? Can anyone else conf

[Callers] First composition! Has it been written?

The Louisville Callers Collective, at our meet-up this past Sunday 3/1, collaboratively wrote our first dance! I searched for homologous choreography in ContraDB and The Callers Box, and to a reasonable extent via Google, and couldn't find any extant dances. Anybody know of something I missed? [nam

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

When I first danced, I couldn’t get the hey for weeks and weeks until someone drew a figure 8 with an extra loop on a blackboard for me. Then it all made sense. For that reason, now, I keep a large hand-drawn with dark thick magic marker figure 8 with extra loop on a piece of stiff light paper

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

I wrote more about my experience with dropping out: https://www.jefftk.com/p/lessons-from-dropping-out On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:13 AM Jeff Kaufman via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > "We do do a lot of talking at our dances, with so many beginners each time > we ba

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

"We do do a lot of talking at our dances, with so many beginners each time we basically never stop calling (or maybe we let people muddle through without calls for the very last time through some dances - but I assure you, many people falter without the instruction!)" I suspect that the reason thi

[Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four

Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Callers] Re: actual timing of calls for hey for four Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:23:10 -0400 From: Katherine Kitching To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net Hi all, wanted to thank everyone for all the super varied/interesting