Positional Calling for Contra Dance with Louise Siddons
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2020
- This workshop is intended to introduce participants to positional calling - sometimes described as global terminology - for contra dancing. Discover how the skills you already cultivate as a caller can be enhanced by positional thinking, teaching, and calling - and learn how to use those skills to create a more welcoming, inclusive atmosphere at your dances. This workshop was participatory rather than prescriptive, although Louise did introduce the strategies that she uses in her own teaching and calling as helpful starting points. Louise has been calling both contra and ECD positionally since 2017 in both the US and the UK.
You can buy Louise's book on positional calling from CDSS (cdss.force.com/commons/s/prod....
Here you are, in the First Year of Our Plague, using amazing and useful terminology to revise the introductory lesson and a dance walkthrough, but being yourself confined to a limited set of visual and spacial cues as you teach this lovely thing via a webcam.
Four nights ago, I went to my first dance that was called in this style, and I was so glad.
I especially like your introductory lesson tips shown here, even though it will be some time before I adopt positional calling wholesale.
Thank you for your work.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate your feedback and I’m so glad you had a positive experience with positional calling in person! 😊
I find this far too complicated. As a member of the LGTBQ group and dancer of 30 years, I'm not offended or confused by the men or women's position. I think everyone is so afraid of upsetting someone these days. I just say I'm saying the mens line or ladies line, these are positions it doesn't matter if you're a man in the woman's line or visa versa, it's just easier and quicker to explain it.
To each their own! Thanks for watching and giving it some thought :)
@@louisesiddons I'm just an old dinosaur calling for other old dinosaurs, we will soon be extinct. But we do a lot of playford dances rather than ceilidh. Maybe the young ceilidh dancers are better suited to positional calling.
I disagree that it's too complicated; it might take a sec to absorb, but once you "get it," it elevates your understanding of the whole dance form, and brings greater pleasure in experiencing the dance flow.
Having had my arm hurt by a confused someone yanking me into the "correct" position I am very much in favor non gender calling and encouraging dancers to think in terms of positions.