This Week in Square Dancing
Nov. 12th, 2008 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisMonday's C2 class with John Marshall went pretty well. All three of us --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuyahogarvr, kent4str and myself-- were present, thus disproving the rumours that cuyahogarvr had offed either of us despite plenty of temptation to do so periodically.
As well as reviewing prior material, we learned 'hocus pocus,' 'along' and 'checkpoint.' All three squares did pretty well although the center six part of 'along' was causing headaches for some: John described it as a 'grand peel the top' which many --myself included-- didn't grok. The official CALLERLAB definition says the #1 dancer in the column peels while #2 and #3 step forward and trade with their counterparts on the other column, a definition which works vastly better in my already-crowded head.
Last night,kent4str was feeling a little off so we left him at home but cuyahogarvr and I had fun with with Bill Harrison's C1 dance in Columbia, MD. I haven't figured out yet if he was being exceptionally gentle or if we're getting more confident but I didn't find the evening to be as mind-bending as his prior dances have been. Sure, we stumbled periodically but on the whole we were pretty successful on the floor. Yay!
I'm working currently on transcribing the C1 calling I recorded this past weekend at the Harvest Festival Hoedown. Much typing is in my near future.
There's no dancing tonight andcaller_dayle is calling for the DC Lambda Squares Thursday so we may take that evening off too. Technically, there's a Harvest Festival Hoedown post-mortem but I need the space from fly-in activities at the moment so I'm going to pass on that. Besides, it's my mother's birthday so I have to make the obligatory telephone call in the mid-evening. We have Friday off too but I should write more A2 choreo for my next Zig Zaggers gig on Nov 21.
Saturday, we're hosting the monthly committee meeting of DC Diamond Circulate. We need to get some shopping done to have some hors d'oeuvres to serve.
cuyahogarvr, kent4str and myself-- were present, thus disproving the rumours that cuyahogarvr had offed either of us despite plenty of temptation to do so periodically.As well as reviewing prior material, we learned 'hocus pocus,' 'along' and 'checkpoint.' All three squares did pretty well although the center six part of 'along' was causing headaches for some: John described it as a 'grand peel the top' which many --myself included-- didn't grok. The official CALLERLAB definition says the #1 dancer in the column peels while #2 and #3 step forward and trade with their counterparts on the other column, a definition which works vastly better in my already-crowded head.
Last night,
kent4str was feeling a little off so we left him at home but cuyahogarvr and I had fun with with Bill Harrison's C1 dance in Columbia, MD. I haven't figured out yet if he was being exceptionally gentle or if we're getting more confident but I didn't find the evening to be as mind-bending as his prior dances have been. Sure, we stumbled periodically but on the whole we were pretty successful on the floor. Yay!I'm working currently on transcribing the C1 calling I recorded this past weekend at the Harvest Festival Hoedown. Much typing is in my near future.
There's no dancing tonight and
caller_dayle is calling for the DC Lambda Squares Thursday so we may take that evening off too. Technically, there's a Harvest Festival Hoedown post-mortem but I need the space from fly-in activities at the moment so I'm going to pass on that. Besides, it's my mother's birthday so I have to make the obligatory telephone call in the mid-evening. We have Friday off too but I should write more A2 choreo for my next Zig Zaggers gig on Nov 21.Saturday, we're hosting the monthly committee meeting of DC Diamond Circulate. We need to get some shopping done to have some hors d'oeuvres to serve.
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Date: 2008-11-12 08:54 pm (UTC)