Rushing Along

Opening evening of the square dance fly-in was a blast. I danced a lot of A2 and C1; thanks to an excess of sugar caffeine, I was easily able to keep up with Ben Rubright's and Dayle Hodge's faster calling and have enough bandwidth to spare to help the new C1 dancers into the right spots.

cuyahogarvr is a little frustrated with his C1 dancing but I think he's being too hard on himself: he's only just started, for crissakes! He's doing pretty well for having only just started.

I'm looking forward to the morning C1 and A2 workshops. kent4str and I are co-hosting the GCA Plus calling hour at 1 PM and Mainstream hour at 2 PM: we have four callers lined up for each hour and we can supplement either if our guests have short sets.

More news later!

Rushing Along

Opening evening of the square dance fly-in was a blast. I danced a lot of A2 and C1; thanks to an excess of sugar caffeine, I was easily able to keep up with Ben Rubright's and Dayle Hodge's faster calling and have enough bandwidth to spare to help the new C1 dancers into the right spots.

cuyahogarvr is a little frustrated with his C1 dancing but I think he's being too hard on himself: he's only just started, for crissakes! He's doing pretty well for having only just started.

I'm looking forward to the morning C1 and A2 workshops. kent4str and I are co-hosting the GCA Plus calling hour at 1 PM and Mainstream hour at 2 PM: we have four callers lined up for each hour and we can supplement either if our guests have short sets.

More news later!

Square Dancing in Rehoboth Beach, DE

It's been a long, long day --and it's still in progress.

I went to Betsy Gotta's C1 workshop this morning at 10 AM; it was tremendous fun, although we spent more time going over standard applications of calls for some calls on the C1 list rather than workshopping non-standard apps, odd formations or lefty versions. Ah, well... that's also what workshops are for.

I emceed the GCA Plus hour while kent4str took the Mainstream hour. In both cases, we had enough guest callers for each block that neither of us had to call ourselves. Where appropriate, we stepped in to complete a square or provide outside guidance when a call went south. In all, it was quite successful. We still have an hour of GCA A2 tomorrow afternoon.

We enjoyed a nap in the late afternoon before dressing for the grand march ce soir and the subsequent dancing. I think we clean up nicely:


I also corralled the available GCA callers for a group photo (allanh: feel free to use it as filler if you have some newsletter space to fill): Alan Hirsch and Drew Allen are also attending but were MIA:

There's still much dancing left for tonight but my feet are killing me. :-)

Square Dancing in Rehoboth Beach, DE

It's been a long, long day --and it's still in progress.

I went to Betsy Gotta's C1 workshop this morning at 10 AM; it was tremendous fun, although we spent more time going over standard applications of calls for some calls on the C1 list rather than workshopping non-standard apps, odd formations or lefty versions. Ah, well... that's also what workshops are for.

I emceed the GCA Plus hour while kent4str took the Mainstream hour. In both cases, we had enough guest callers for each block that neither of us had to call ourselves. Where appropriate, we stepped in to complete a square or provide outside guidance when a call went south. In all, it was quite successful. We still have an hour of GCA A2 tomorrow afternoon.

We enjoyed a nap in the late afternoon before dressing for the grand march ce soir and the subsequent dancing. I think we clean up nicely:


I also corralled the available GCA callers for a group photo (allanh: feel free to use it as filler if you have some newsletter space to fill): Alan Hirsch and Drew Allen are also attending but were MIA:

There's still much dancing left for tonight but my feet are killing me. :-)

Dressed for the Evening

Ready for another evening of square dancing!

Dressed for the Evening

Ready for another evening of square dancing!