Hello, friends.
The square dance class on Tuesday, 2018-10-30, was attended by graduates only (no new class members). Instead of reviewing week 4 and moving on to some new week 5 material, instructor Ralph Trout turned the evening into a workshop for experienced people to practice other calls, some from unusual starting positions.
Disclaimer: I was not taking notes. The list of calls (below) is from 6-day-old memories. Two other square dance events are interfering with those memories:
Attending the Busy Bs Halloween dance in Brooklawn on Wednesday, 2018-10-31 (with caller Joe Bradshaw);Attending the Rainbow Squares dance on Saturday, 2018-11-03 (with caller Doug Kauffman).
Here is the (hopefully mostly accurate) list of calls workshopped on Tuesday, not in chronological order:
Scoot Back
-- boys go in (common)
-- girls go in (less common)
-- one boy and one girl go in (even less common)
Follow Your Neighbor
Follow Your Neighbor and Spread
Slide Through:
-- boys facing boys: pass through; turn right.
-- girls facing girls: pass through; turn left.
Acey Deucey (I think)
Crossfire
-- girls in the middle (common)
-- boys in the middle (less common)
Relay The Deucey
-- from normal boy-girl-girl-boy waves (very common)
-- from girl-boy-boy-girl waves (rare)
-- from boy-girl-boy-girl waves (rare)
In a cool twist of fate, caller Joe Bradshaw did the first two types of Relay the Deucey at the Busy Bs Halloween dance the next night.
Enough listing of calls; now it's time for the exhortation.
Come out Tuesday, 2018-11-06, for another night of learning fun!
New topic: some students liked the section with links in the week #04 email. I repeat it here for reference.
The first link has a list of videos and which calls are demonstrated in each one.
https://videosquaredancelessons.com/lessons/
The second link lists the square dance calls in alphabetical order and has a link to the video with its demonstration.
https://videosquaredancelessons.com/lessons/callindex.htm
These videos can be useful, basic reminders of how to do calls already learned. The videos generally show each call from a single formation.
The third link will take you to the Taminations web site. It has animations of square dance calls using squares for men and circles for ladies. For each call, it shows the official CallerLab definition and demonstrates the paths each person follows from a variety of formations.
There is also a Taminations app for phones and tablets with support for several platforms: Apple iOS, Google Android, Amazon Kindle. One benefit of the app is that it does not need an internet connection once it's installed: everything is preloaded onto your device. That helps at the Milmay Fire Hall, where cell-phone service ebbs and flows over the building like an invisible tide.
https://www.tamtwirlers.org/taminations/
Enjoy!
--GCL
Note: This post is a copy of a broadcast email.