DCLS Club Night
Apr. 6th, 2006 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisThe MS & Plus calling went well tonight, I think.
I didn't get a list of what calls were not yet taught in the Mainstream course so I had to fumble for the first few minutes and accidentally called a few that I shouldn't have. I'm not overly concerned: there was only one class member present and the rest of the square dragged him through the occasional burp. The list of calls I could use was waiting for me in my mailbox at home, delivered 5 minutes after I left for the downtown. D'oh!
The Plus material was all pretty much the way I wanted it. The only snag was the final tip: I was going for a bucket stir three times but every time I got mid-way through, the formation kept coming up as unrecognizable. In each instance, I simply called through to a normal resolve at home as though I meant to do it that way. In the end, I resorted to a simple, previously memorized stir. The set went a little long but that's the worst.
One observation: At many club nights in both DC and Baltimore, the dancers don't square up until they hear the music. Several times tonight, the dancers squared up spontaneously with only a two minute break between tips. Yay! They really like me! (And I'm sticking to that particular interpretation until a more flattering one comes along! :-))
Unless there are other last minute calling gigs, I'm done for the next couple of weeks. Time to audition more music, write more A2 material and memorize more get-outs & singing figures.
I didn't get a list of what calls were not yet taught in the Mainstream course so I had to fumble for the first few minutes and accidentally called a few that I shouldn't have. I'm not overly concerned: there was only one class member present and the rest of the square dragged him through the occasional burp. The list of calls I could use was waiting for me in my mailbox at home, delivered 5 minutes after I left for the downtown. D'oh!
The Plus material was all pretty much the way I wanted it. The only snag was the final tip: I was going for a bucket stir three times but every time I got mid-way through, the formation kept coming up as unrecognizable. In each instance, I simply called through to a normal resolve at home as though I meant to do it that way. In the end, I resorted to a simple, previously memorized stir. The set went a little long but that's the worst.
One observation: At many club nights in both DC and Baltimore, the dancers don't square up until they hear the music. Several times tonight, the dancers squared up spontaneously with only a two minute break between tips. Yay! They really like me! (And I'm sticking to that particular interpretation until a more flattering one comes along! :-))
Unless there are other last minute calling gigs, I'm done for the next couple of weeks. Time to audition more music, write more A2 material and memorize more get-outs & singing figures.
