Jul. 2nd, 2012
IAGSDC Vancouver Convention, Day 3
Jul. 2nd, 2012 11:13 amSunday was most notable for me because I was scheduled to call some top-of-the-hour guest calling spots. I was granted four slots, three today (Advanced, C1 and c2) and one tomorrow (C2).
My Advanced set went OK. I did some relatively easy choreo but it apparently wasn't easy enough for some. I'm guessing the problem squares in the front of the hall were new Advanced dancers. Had I thought it through more carefully, I would have just called A1 rather than full A2: the regular dancers wouldn't have known the difference but the newbies would have had more floor time & faster responses to those calls.
My C1 went well enough, again sticking to relatively easy material.
The banquet in the evening was nice but it ran late and that's when things got a little tricky. The 8pm dance hour was largely chopped in half because of the banquet overrun. Worse, the crowd departing the banquet hall largely jammed the five hotel elevators and/or delayed the callers departing from the front of the banquet hall.
I was early for my C2 gig and saw only three dancers in the hall. OK, no problem. The C1 hall however had three squares of dancers standing on the floor, waiting for a caller to arrive. To keep them from wandering away while the scheduled caller was in transit, I plugged in my laptop & mic and called an extra tip. I then dashed to the C2 hall for my scheduled gig.
My C2 set was well received, I think. When I wrapped up, the scheduled caller still hadn't arrived but![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kent4str quickly made a phone call and found she was still caught up in the elevator crush so I called an additional C2 set to entertain the dancers until the regular caller arrived. Success!
After a little more dancing, we went to the 34th floor to watch the Canada Day fireworks before joining friends at the bar for fun & gossip.
My Advanced set went OK. I did some relatively easy choreo but it apparently wasn't easy enough for some. I'm guessing the problem squares in the front of the hall were new Advanced dancers. Had I thought it through more carefully, I would have just called A1 rather than full A2: the regular dancers wouldn't have known the difference but the newbies would have had more floor time & faster responses to those calls.
My C1 went well enough, again sticking to relatively easy material.
The banquet in the evening was nice but it ran late and that's when things got a little tricky. The 8pm dance hour was largely chopped in half because of the banquet overrun. Worse, the crowd departing the banquet hall largely jammed the five hotel elevators and/or delayed the callers departing from the front of the banquet hall.
I was early for my C2 gig and saw only three dancers in the hall. OK, no problem. The C1 hall however had three squares of dancers standing on the floor, waiting for a caller to arrive. To keep them from wandering away while the scheduled caller was in transit, I plugged in my laptop & mic and called an extra tip. I then dashed to the C2 hall for my scheduled gig.
My C2 set was well received, I think. When I wrapped up, the scheduled caller still hadn't arrived but
kent4str quickly made a phone call and found she was still caught up in the elevator crush so I called an additional C2 set to entertain the dancers until the regular caller arrived. Success!After a little more dancing, we went to the 34th floor to watch the Canada Day fireworks before joining friends at the bar for fun & gossip.