Yes, Virginia, there is a calling party tonight.
We have three dances coming up to get ready for: the Youth Contra on Friday (May 30), the Hatchling Dance on June 7, and the Childgrove dance on June 22.
...time passes...
Great party tonight. John and Kathy from Cape Girardeau used some of their vacation time to stop by - they added a lot to the discussion. We all had a lot to hash over after our Kimmswick weekend, and we also watched the barn dance section of "Farmer Wants a Wife". Some pretty funny stuff in them there footage.
We danced a lot of contras - some a bit more complex than would work at a regular contra (or the Hatchling Dance) but lots of fun. We did just "Mage on a Cree" for English.
There were about 15-16 people tonight - far more than I expected on an "extra" night, and a smart, fun group. Sometimes I just think these Calling Parties are turning out better than I had any right to expect.
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Have fun at your dance everyone. I'll be up in DesMoines doing a barn dance in a real live barn.
Speaking of Barn Dances - I was talking with a couple of new people at the dance on Sunday, and one of them told me that when she was a kid in Missouri, a "Barn Dance" was where you did polkas, waltzes and schottisches.
Then I read this on henryandjacqui.com: "In England “Barn Dances” are, ninety per cent of the time, fund-raisers for schools, groups of one kind or another. If you went there you would encounter families, adults & kids of all ages, and the caller would call a variety of very simple dances... ", in other words, One Night Stand dances.
I wish words would stop being so squiggly.
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