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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/

#ContraDance #TradFolk #SocialDance

Queer Tango Milonga

https://mobilizon.us/events/0f5bc7d0-6e66-45c8-adf1-78e15f544945

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.

#ML #AI #ContraDance #FolkDance #SocialDance

I've just wrapped up another year of calling dances. It's been an exhilarating, busy year. I'm planning some more verbose reflections for later, but I also wanted, this year, to go deep on the quantitative elements of calling.

https://chromamine.com/2025/01/dance-calling-by-the-numbers-2024/

#TradFolk #DanceCaller #SocialDance

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!

https://chromamine.com/2024/11/set-and-link-contras/

#ScottishCountryDance #SocialDance #TradFolk #ContraDance

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/

#ContraDance #TradFolk #gender #music #SocialDance

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/

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.

#ContraDance #TradFolk #SocialDance