[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

A couple small corrections to my previos message about diagramming: I wrote > ... the starting position of a duple minor contra would look like this: > > 1 B 3 D 5 F ... > A 2 C 4 E 6 .. That should read "... a duple improper contra ..." I also wrote: > For a single-progression

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

Since this discussion has expanded to include methods of working out dance choreography without using computers (or live dancers), here's a description of my method. First off, I much prefer using diagrams to using props. With diagrams if you think you made a mistake somewhere--for example if

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

Thanks, everyone, for your great suggestions!! I checked out 3 options and Personally, I’ve fallen in love with Cary Ravitz’s Micro Robot Dance animator: https://www.dance.ravitz.us/mrd.php Things I love about it: —You can tell which way the dancers are

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

Jeff Kaufman wrote: > When I was learning to call I read about diagramming dances (I completely > forget where). ... The section "Diagramming Dances" in Cary Ravitz's "Notes on Choreography for Duple Minor Improper Contra Dances" https://www.dance.ravitz.us/chor.php describes a system

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

I use chess pieces. It's not all that different to what you are doing with magnets except that I think it meets the objectives you state in your message. Partners are same pieces of a different colour (e.g. a pawn's partner is a pawn, etc, and you only use one pair of pawns). You can use black

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

Haven't actually played with it much, but you could check out Cary Ravitz's Micro Robot Dance: https://www.dance.ravitz.us/mrd.php On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 2:02 PM Becky Liddle via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I doubt this exists, but thought I’d ask: > I have

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 19:09:08 +, Amy Cann via Contra Callers wrote: > Betting that Colin Hume has the definitive answer to this... There's a Contra Dance Designer at http://www.seattledance.org/misc/contra.design/index.htm which I've never tried. And there's an excellent simulator at

[Callers] Re: Is there an on-line simulator to visualize/observe contra dance moves/interactions?

Betting that Colin Hume has the definitive answer to this... (There's some really cool old ones for square dancing, lemme see if I can dig a few up) On 2/9/20, Becky Liddle via Contra Callers wrote: > I doubt this exists, but thought I’d ask: > I have seen on-line apps that demonstrate just one