Beneficial Tradition, Dan Pearl made it up, I think. That's one possibility.
Ridge Kennedy
West Orange, NJ (Exit 145)
If you stumble, make it part of the dance.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 8:53 AM Kyla Wargel via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I remember
Maia McCormick said:
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 12:21 PM Maia McCormick via Contra Callers <
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> After dancing to some of Lisa's Greenleaf's squares at Beantown Stomp
> last weekend, I'm feeling inspired to add some to my repertoire. (To be
> clear, I'm
Dear All,
I have thought a lot about the nomenclature issues. I too went from ladies
to women and back to ladies, worked with armbands and bare arms, leaders
and followers, larks and robins, and have lapsed almost accidentally into
positional calling out of an abundance of trying not to say the
In the "for what it's worth" department, the dance shares a transition with
Haste to the Wedding. There's the awkward bit for the (right-hand dancer in
each couple) when (pronoun) is coming out of the left-hand star and has to
do a quick U-turn in order to face across the set for the do-si-do.
I
Curse you callers & musicians. I am now infected with one of the most
insidious of parasites: The earworm Baumontum Raggus. The nasty little
creature is crawling through my subconscious at a leisurely 86 bpm,
frequently raising its volume and causing erratic shoulder shimmies and the
occasional
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> On Friday, April 29, 2022, 12:25 AM, Amy Cann via Contra Callers <
> contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> HOW HAVE I NOT KNOWN THIS DANCE BEFORE THIS MOMENT??
Balance the Star qualifies as a chestnut and works well. The stars
encourage a little hand jive action that is a lot of fun.
Here's my go-to dance for raggy tune sets which stole a good bit from
Balance the Star -- and Beaumont would work just fine with it.
(And per what I think others said,
Bethlehem PA is starting in November.
https://valleycontradance.org/
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:51 AM Becky Liddle via Contra Callers <
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> Hi caller friends,
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> I’m the president of Toronto Contra Dance and we’re about to survey our
> membership
