Interesting stuff and with an edit, worthwhile for the Call Sheet in one form or another.
Wednesday, I went to Cliff Simpson's (the Boots in Squares club caller) Plus and Advanced class. I don't think this is an official BiS night, but Cliff's own thing outside of the club. Don't know the politics of the club enough yet. The skill level of the dancers was dire. I was surprised to see one dancer at the Advanced session from 8:30 to 10pm that was foundering (but not the worst) at the Plus session from 7pm to 8:30pm.
Cliff is going to be out of town all of July and August starting this Saturday. I was tapped to call the Monday club dance; Phil Farmer is subbing on Wednesdays.
I was chatting with Cliff Wednesday about getting into the scene in Southern California. I'm possibly going to rethink what my involvement might be outside of the Palm Springs area--nearly every dance is outside of PS. A long ways. On the freeways. So driving to a dance may be three hours each way. Not something I would be keen on doing. Cliff tells me there are NO clubs in the Coachella Valley other than Boots in Squares and the tiny Windmill Twirlers led by Terri Sherrer--and both ostensibly gay clubs.
Oh, my.
Good luck with this reinvention of yourself, or at least your schedule. Commitment is hard in the long run. I called for 32 years for the Wilde Bunch, with various shifts of nights based on needs: first on Sunday afternoons, then Wednesday, then Monday/Wednesday, and finally Mondays (me) and Tuesdays (Kris). I had conflicts with choral singing caused by those groups changing rehearsal nights to ones I was calling on.
We'll see what the future brings--I'm theoretically retired now, but I was thinking of doing other things than just calling squares.
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Date: 2016-07-08 03:06 pm (UTC)Wednesday, I went to Cliff Simpson's (the Boots in Squares club caller) Plus and Advanced class. I don't think this is an official BiS night, but Cliff's own thing outside of the club. Don't know the politics of the club enough yet. The skill level of the dancers was dire. I was surprised to see one dancer at the Advanced session from 8:30 to 10pm that was foundering (but not the worst) at the Plus session from 7pm to 8:30pm.
Cliff is going to be out of town all of July and August starting this Saturday. I was tapped to call the Monday club dance; Phil Farmer is subbing on Wednesdays.
I was chatting with Cliff Wednesday about getting into the scene in Southern California. I'm possibly going to rethink what my involvement might be outside of the Palm Springs area--nearly every dance is outside of PS. A long ways. On the freeways. So driving to a dance may be three hours each way. Not something I would be keen on doing. Cliff tells me there are NO clubs in the Coachella Valley other than Boots in Squares and the tiny Windmill Twirlers led by Terri Sherrer--and both ostensibly gay clubs.
Oh, my.
Good luck with this reinvention of yourself, or at least your schedule. Commitment is hard in the long run. I called for 32 years for the Wilde Bunch, with various shifts of nights based on needs: first on Sunday afternoons, then Wednesday, then Monday/Wednesday, and finally Mondays (me) and Tuesdays (Kris). I had conflicts with choral singing caused by those groups changing rehearsal nights to ones I was calling on.
We'll see what the future brings--I'm theoretically retired now, but I was thinking of doing other things than just calling squares.