#socialdance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialdance, aggregated by home.social.
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I could use a really fun party, right about now, sometimes I dare think a classy one...but perhaps for those of us not of noble birth, it's a better trip for us to take our bodies to swing dance classes, and leave scenes like this for the imagination...
By Victor Gabriel Gilbert, "Une soirée élégante".
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dress #fashion #dance #dancing #party #socialdance #ball #ballroom
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I could use a really fun party, right about now, sometimes I dare think a classy one...but perhaps for those of us not of noble birth, it's a better trip for us to take our bodies to swing dance classes, and leave scenes like this for the imagination...
By Victor Gabriel Gilbert, "Une soirée élégante".
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dress #fashion #dance #dancing #party #socialdance #ball #ballroom
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Lindy Hop-Tanzworkshop am 25. Juli von 14 bis 17 Uhr
Lust auf Lindy Hop? Das ist ein Social Dance zu Swingmusik. Gemeinsam einen Tanz gestalten mit Fokus auf Kreativität und häufig auch Albernheit – darum geht’s.
Du brauchst keine Vorkenntnisse, nur bequeme Kleidung, die Schulter und Taille bedeckt, und Schuhe mit einem möglichst rutschigem (flachen) Profil und eventuell ein Wechselshirt.
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung: https://qzm-rn.de/veranstaltung/lindy-hop-tanzworkshop/
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Lindy Hop-Tanzworkshop am 25. Juli von 14 bis 17 Uhr
Lust auf Lindy Hop? Das ist ein Social Dance zu Swingmusik. Gemeinsam einen Tanz gestalten mit Fokus auf Kreativität und häufig auch Albernheit – darum geht’s.
Du brauchst keine Vorkenntnisse, nur bequeme Kleidung, die Schulter und Taille bedeckt, und Schuhe mit einem möglichst rutschigem (flachen) Profil und eventuell ein Wechselshirt.
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung: https://qzm-rn.de/veranstaltung/lindy-hop-tanzworkshop/
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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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Queer Tango Milonga
October 25, 2025, 8:00:00 PM EDT - GMT-4 - Cultural Arts Center, 20910, Silver Spring, United Stateshttps://mobilizon.us/events/0f5bc7d0-6e66-45c8-adf1-78e15f544945
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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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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/
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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/
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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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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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La Cumparsita -- Tango
https://youtu.be/nCL4aLaCTsM?si=pkDyRpTQ6uU4Z1g3
A scene from Carlos Saura's film "Tango". This most well known of tangos was the work of a Uruguayan composer, Gerardo Matos Rodriguez.
#Uruguay #Tango #LaCumparsita #Dance #SocialDance #GeradoMatosRodriguez #UruguayanMusic
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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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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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Shut down a long running project today. Even though it was pretty embarrassingly unmaintained for the past several years, I'm pretty proud that people found it useful enough to keep using for nine years.
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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!
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@morganarae Tango is a long & beautiful journey :)
Social dancing is wonderful on so many levels. Whether it's as simple as a basic Foxtrot or salsa, or as involved as WCS (or tango), nothing like it. Prior to COVID-19 we had a fantastic social dance community in our small Vancouver Island region.
Ps. More dance pics please! So many smiles :)
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@morganarae Tango is a long & beautiful journey :)
Social dancing is wonderful on so many levels. Whether it's as simple as a basic Foxtrot or salsa, or as involved as WCS (or tango), nothing like it. Prior to COVID-19 we had a fantastic social dance community in our small Vancouver Island region.
Ps. More dance pics please! So many smiles :)
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I started drawing these Blob-People because anatomy is freaking me out and this is an easy way of incorporating figures! This is from a series of drawings about things I missed hte most during the pandemic. "I miss the dances" #penandink #colouredpencils #socialdance #lindyhop #illustratedmusic