[Callers] Re: [External] Re: Choreographic No-Nos

2024-08-06 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
y.net/bookings/> > -------------- > *From:* Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers < > contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2024 3:37 PM > *To:* Alexandra Deis-Lauby > *Cc:* Julian Blechner ; > sjapartme...@gmail.c

[Callers] Re: [External] Re: Choreographic No-Nos

2024-08-06 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
, this flows very well. So if one MUST > call it, you might change the promenade direction. > > Alex > > > On Aug 6, 2024, at 3:32 PM, Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers < > contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > Please, pretty please, with sug

[Callers] Re: [External] Re: Choreographic No-Nos

2024-08-06 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
Please, pretty please, with sugar on top! Please don’t call (or write) any more dances where a Half-Promenade (across the set) is followed by a Circle to the Left! With the possible exception of interlocking long wavy lines-- another big ugh! in my book, there is nothing more jarring than the 1/2

[Callers] In light of recent developments

2024-07-22 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
*my "**Vote Blue No Matter Who,**" tweaked for this election cycle:* *(let me know how it goes if you call this one!)* *Vote Blue No Matter Who, Version 2.024 *(5-2-24) *by Elizabeth Bloom Albert * Becket formation; start one-quarter turn to left of Improper; this dance progresses clockwise.

[Callers] Re: Sicilian Circle question

2023-02-04 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
Offering up the following: *Burning Ring of Arches **by Elizabeth Bloom Albert* Sicilian Circle. QUADRUPLE Progression dance *Key: 1’s = Couples who are facing CW around circle* * 2’s = Couples who are facing CCW around circle* A1 1’s Arch, 2’s Duck under;

[Callers] the Yemenite dance step

2022-12-17 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
dear callers and dance writers, has anyone out there come across/written a contra dance that incorporates the dance move, Yemenite (as in “Yemenite right; Yemenite left”), from Israeli folk dance? thanks much !! -- * Elizabeth Bloom Albert * ___ Co

[Callers] Re: 'Git Goin' (Was: Big Easy Variation)

2022-10-24 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
this is the very first time I am **weighing** in on Shared Weight and I really hope I don’t offend anyone, but here goes: I see three problems with positional calling. 1) when dancers are new to contradance and EVERYTHING about it is confusing, Positional Calling (PC) asks these brave, but unsure-

[Callers] Re: Does anybody know of active vaccinated-only, in-person contra dances?

2021-10-15 Thread Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers
we are going to one tonite U of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:51 AM Becky Liddle via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi caller friends, > > I’m the president of Toronto Contra Dance and we’re about to survey our > membership about when they’ll