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I believe the dance without a name is Midwest Folklore, by Orace Johnson. WD callers-request at sharedweight.net wrote: > Send Callers mailing list submissions to > callers at sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > callers-request at sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > callers-owner at sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wedding dances (Amy Cann) > 2. Re: Wedding dances (Luke Donev) > 3. Re: Wedding dances (Michael Barraclough) > 4. Waltz? (David Millstone) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:17:40 -0400 > From: "Amy Cann" <ACann at putneyschool.org> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers at sharedweight.net> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Wedding dances > Message-ID: > <fc.0118c72d009deac53b9aca00173a5480.9dead5 at putneyschool.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > OK, I just have to chime in (haven't posted here in AGES) > > I'm getting married next week, and I have NO IDEA what the caller is going > to call. That's HIS job. > > I hired David Millstone and told him to do what will make the most people > happy and comfortable. > > It's probably going to turn out to be the smartest bit of > non-micromanaging I will ever do in my LIFE. > > > Of course, I'm obsessing about everything ELSE... > > > PS if you know me and have known about this wedding for ages and think you > should be at this wedding and haven't gotten an official pretty paper > invitation, it's because we used up all of the snailmail ones on the kind > of relatives you have to invite even though you know they're not going to > come anyway. My dance friends are all going to have to make do with a > scanned-in pdf of the invite card and a link to the website. Watch your > inbox for an email in the next 12 hours, and if something STILL doesn't > show up it's because I'm an idiot. ( I SO identify with Sleeping Beauty's > mother, who forgot to invite one of the fairies to the christening and > ended up getting her daughter cursed.) Hell, I almost left Bob McQUILLAN > off the list! Email me if you wanna come and I'll get you the details. > Dave Bateman, are you out here? I don't have a good address for you > anymore, your invite bounced. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:55:18 -0400 > From: Luke Donev <luke.donev at gmail.com> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers at sharedweight.net> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Wedding dances > Message-ID: > <243d1eda0908011855s6300fb35w6c2e753f9199d652 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello all, > > Thanks for the wonderful feedback, both on and off list. Very helpful and > informative. > > The wedding and reception went very well. I forgot one of the cardinal rules > of weddings, which is that they always run late. I didn't do nearly as many > contras as I'd originally blocked out, and ended up with just three. I left > them all Becket dances (since the last one had to be), and had a simpler > first contra without a 1s and 2s distinction, and where it didn't matter > what how you ended the swing > > Pluck It (easy Becket) > A1: C L, C R > A2: S R, S L > B1: P DSD, P swg > B2: N DSD, LL yearn left > > The new dancers seemed very comfortable with slide left type transitions for > dances, and not having to cross over at the ends simplified things as well. > > The other simple dance went over well. Easy for new folks as it's the same > set of moves twice. I collected it recently at Falcon Ridge, but I don't > know the name or author. Any help? > > Becket > A1 : C L 3/4, N DSD > A2: N Bal & Swg > B1: C L 3/4, P DSD > B2: P Bal & Swg > slide on to next couple > > By the final contra (Star Trek), we still had a fair number of new folks, > and they gamely tried the hay, and by and large they did alright with it. > The "find your partner and swing them" end of it helped a lot. > > Thanks again for the feedback and pointers. > >