Teaching a Plus Workshop

Tomorrow morning, kent4str and I are conducting a two hour Plus workshop for the DC Lambda Squares. At last word, we had 21 people signed up.

I'm particularly interested in working the calls "peel the top" and "spin chain the gears": in our area, those seem to be the weakest and least-used calls. Various people have asked us to work "crossfire"; while they dance it adequately, they've felt a lack of full understanding of the call.

Beyond that, we're planning on calling through the entire Plus list to look for weak spots, doing a run-through of "coordinate" and "relay the deucey," testing them on lefty or sashayed versions of calls and trying spontaneous variants of known calls (eg. "spin chain & exchange the gears but turn the star only 1/4") as time allows. Of course, we'll happily take requests & suggestions from the floor.

Any other last-minute ideas?

Teaching a Plus Workshop

Tomorrow morning, kent4str and I are conducting a two hour Plus workshop for the DC Lambda Squares. At last word, we had 21 people signed up.

I'm particularly interested in working the calls "peel the top" and "spin chain the gears": in our area, those seem to be the weakest and least-used calls. Various people have asked us to work "crossfire"; while they dance it adequately, they've felt a lack of full understanding of the call.

Beyond that, we're planning on calling through the entire Plus list to look for weak spots, doing a run-through of "coordinate" and "relay the deucey," testing them on lefty or sashayed versions of calls and trying spontaneous variants of known calls (eg. "spin chain & exchange the gears but turn the star only 1/4") as time allows. Of course, we'll happily take requests & suggestions from the floor.

Any other last-minute ideas?

Dining Out for Life

Last night, the DC Lambda Squares got a crowd of 23 members together at the Logan Tavern for Dining Out for Life, an annual fundraiser for Food & Friends. 25% of our overall meal tab ($526!) went to supporting meal preparation & delivery to those in need.

I was also happy to take advantage of the group gathering for something of a working dinner: I was able to swap caller contracts, bank statements, registrations & such with Cissie, hand off a raffle prize to Tom to display at the WASCA festival next week and give a check to Dayle for our part of a recent purchase of square dance music. Food and productivity... how can one beat that?

Dining Out for Life

Last night, the DC Lambda Squares got a crowd of 23 members together at the Logan Tavern for Dining Out for Life, an annual fundraiser for Food & Friends. 25% of our overall meal tab ($526!) went to supporting meal preparation & delivery to those in need.

I was also happy to take advantage of the group gathering for something of a working dinner: I was able to swap caller contracts, bank statements, registrations & such with Cissie, hand off a raffle prize to Tom to display at the WASCA festival next week and give a check to Dayle for our part of a recent purchase of square dance music. Food and productivity... how can one beat that?