#contradance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contradance, aggregated by home.social.
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If you're a contra or English dancer along the east coast, catch me calling in one of these places this Spring/Summer!
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If you're a contra or English dancer along the east coast, catch me calling in one of these places this Spring/Summer!
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I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
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I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
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One neat thing I’ve used Cursor for recently is translating my contra dance programs from photos of my physical cards to the YAML format I use to record them.
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One neat thing I’ve used Cursor for recently is translating my contra dance programs from photos of my physical cards to the YAML format I use to record them.
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"Falshoods programmers believe about contra dances"
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"Falshoods programmers believe about contra dances"
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Many contra dance callers use The Caller’s Box, a phenomenal dance choreography database from Chris Page and Michael Dyck. For those of us who primarily call gender free dances, though, using it requires mental translation from gendered role terms to gender neutral ones. I’ve created a browser plugin, Caller’s Box Configurator, to fix this.
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Many contra dance callers use The Caller’s Box, a phenomenal dance choreography database from Chris Page and Michael Dyck. For those of us who primarily call gender free dances, though, using it requires mental translation from gendered role terms to gender neutral ones. I’ve created a browser plugin, Caller’s Box Configurator, to fix this.
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@redbanjer nice to hear from another #ContraDance fan. My early violin training was distinctly clasical - kudos to #MDUSD public school classes and orchestras, and I thoroughly enjoy #DanceBand fiddling these days. (love your emojis!)
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This is a post looking for that quirky bunch of friends (some on bluesky now) who enjoy #ContraDance #FolkMusic #MyAlaskaWx #FensterFriday #Yukon #IndigenousLanguage @thelmaleuba.bsky.social is one person I hope to reach this way Wider net includes #GregoryGardens #GirlScouts
#MDUSD #OccidentalCollege So if this works right, I write on Mastodon and folks can read on Mastodon AND on BlueSky. (but it might be a magic spell I havenʼt perfected yet) -
This is a post looking for that quirky bunch of friends (some on bluesky now) who enjoy #ContraDance #FolkMusic #MyAlaskaWx #FensterFriday #Yukon #IndigenousLanguage @thelmaleuba.bsky.social is one person I hope to reach this way Wider net includes #GregoryGardens #GirlScouts
#MDUSD #OccidentalCollege So if this works right, I write on Mastodon and folks can read on Mastodon AND on BlueSky. (but it might be a magic spell I havenʼt perfected yet) -
It occurred to me recently that I don’t think there are any contra dances that feature a set and link figure that's popular in Scottish Country Dance. So I decided to write some!
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It occurred to me recently that I don’t think there are any contra dances that feature a set and link figure that's popular in Scottish Country Dance. So I decided to write some!
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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I just wrapped up a weeklong summer contra dance calling tour with Kingfisher (@jefftk and Cecilia Vacanti). This was my first time on tour!
We played six dances in six days with an extra day for travel at the start and an extra two days at the end, for a total of nine days on the road. We performed at these dances:
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/summer-tour-with-kingfisher-reflections/
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I just wrapped up a weeklong summer contra dance calling tour with Kingfisher (@jefftk and Cecilia Vacanti). This was my first time on tour!
We played six dances in six days with an extra day for travel at the start and an extra two days at the end, for a total of nine days on the road. We performed at these dances:
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/summer-tour-with-kingfisher-reflections/
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In response to my most recent post about calling dances in Nantucket, Maia wrote to me:
> Harris, I have the world's stupidest bone to pick with you. Re the dance cards on your website: I don’t think “Duple Neutral” actually means anything?
Okay, I should explain myself.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #gender
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/how-should-we-notate-role-free-contra-dance-formation/
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In response to my most recent post about calling dances in Nantucket, Maia wrote to me:
> Harris, I have the world's stupidest bone to pick with you. Re the dance cards on your website: I don’t think “Duple Neutral” actually means anything?
Okay, I should explain myself.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #gender
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/how-should-we-notate-role-free-contra-dance-formation/
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This week I called the Nantucket's First Community Contra Dance. It was an unusual gig. The organizer is starting a contra dance community from scratch on the island. There were a small handful of experienced dancers she knew, but aside from them, the crowd was entirely new.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #Nantucket #SocialDance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-the-first-dance-in-a-community/
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This week I called the Nantucket's First Community Contra Dance. It was an unusual gig. The organizer is starting a contra dance community from scratch on the island. There were a small handful of experienced dancers she knew, but aside from them, the crowd was entirely new.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #Nantucket #SocialDance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-the-first-dance-in-a-community/
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For the second year in a row @jefftk invited me to call contra dances with his band Kingfisher on his porch for #Somerville Porchfest, for dancers in the street. I wrote a bit last year about some of the interesting challenges in calling at this particular event and they were the same this year.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #music #dance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-contras-at-porchfest-2024/
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For the second year in a row @jefftk invited me to call contra dances with his band Kingfisher on his porch for #Somerville Porchfest, for dancers in the street. I wrote a bit last year about some of the interesting challenges in calling at this particular event and they were the same this year.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #music #dance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-contras-at-porchfest-2024/
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Called to a small but devoted crowd in Concord last night and as a rare treat it was spacious enough and with experienced enough dancers for me to call this beautiful dance composition by Erik Hoffman, titled “There is no Way to Peace; Peace is the Way” (after an A.J. Muste quote).
I’m typically not a star promenade and butterfly whirl fan, but for this dance I make an exception.
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Called to a small but devoted crowd in Concord last night and as a rare treat it was spacious enough and with experienced enough dancers for me to call this beautiful dance composition by Erik Hoffman, titled “There is no Way to Peace; Peace is the Way” (after an A.J. Muste quote).
I’m typically not a star promenade and butterfly whirl fan, but for this dance I make an exception.
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For years now, one of my pet favorites in contra dancing has been the “wowee,” a figure that involves rolling away with your neighbor across the set and immediately releasing the connection to catch your partner for a swing.
Someone told me the term and figure were both borrowed from Modern Western Square Dancing. But MWSD dancers I came across said, "Nope, that's not a figure."
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For years now, one of my pet favorites in contra dancing has been the “wowee,” a figure that involves rolling away with your neighbor across the set and immediately releasing the connection to catch your partner for a swing.
Someone told me the term and figure were both borrowed from Modern Western Square Dancing. But MWSD dancers I came across said, "Nope, that's not a figure."
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In 2019 I decided to get back into contra dance calling after a multi-year stretch of doing very little of it. I called one dance in December, one dance in January of 2020, and then the pandemic hit. Oops.
But when my local dances started back up in 2022 I got into it again and called five dances that year.
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In 2019 I decided to get back into contra dance calling after a multi-year stretch of doing very little of it. I called one dance in December, one dance in January of 2020, and then the pandemic hit. Oops.
But when my local dances started back up in 2022 I got into it again and called five dances that year.
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I've got a new website for my Contra Dance calling and organizing! See where I'll be calling dances in the near future. If you want to book me to call your dance/wedding/birthday/whatever, get in touch!
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I've got a new website for my Contra Dance calling and organizing! See where I'll be calling dances in the near future. If you want to book me to call your dance/wedding/birthday/whatever, get in touch!
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Hello #hachyderm :blobfoxwave:! My overdue #introduction.
My name is Alex and I'm a #robotics #engineer in #EmbeddedSystems. I work at a startup making #autonomous underground mapping #drones. I'm a big fan of #rustlang :rust: but my day job is in #cpp.
In my free time I #SocialDance (mainly #ContraDance) as much as possible, play #BoardGames, read/watch #scifi and tinker with projects.
Looking for an instance, I saw @molly0xfff migrate here, and it seems @nova runs a tight ship so here I am!
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Hello #hachyderm :blobfoxwave:! My overdue #introduction.
My name is Alex and I'm a #robotics #engineer in #EmbeddedSystems. I work at a startup making #autonomous underground mapping #drones. I'm a big fan of #rustlang :rust: but my day job is in #cpp.
In my free time I #SocialDance (mainly #ContraDance) as much as possible, play #BoardGames, read/watch #scifi and tinker with projects.
Looking for an instance, I saw @molly0xfff migrate here, and it seems @nova runs a tight ship so here I am!