Before I get to the Friday Flourish for today, I wanted to draw your attention to a post on caller and musician Jeff Kaufman's blog from earlier this week talking about a musician's POV when playing for a dance and how it differs from playing a concert, which I thought was especially interesting in light of my post from Wednesday about music's relationship to dancers from a dancer's POV. (For those of you who DJ crossover events, you might want to read that too, as I think there are some applicable tidbits to think about when planning set lists for a contra gig and it echoes some points DJ Gaga made in Monday's article.)
Anyway, onward! This week's flourish takes the skaters' hold variant on a promenade that we discussed last week and pulls it into a swing variant. As one might expect, you can generate a lot of centrifugal force, so be prudent about doing this with people who have sore shoulders and the like.
Anyway, onward! This week's flourish takes the skaters' hold variant on a promenade that we discussed last week and pulls it into a swing variant. As one might expect, you can generate a lot of centrifugal force, so be prudent about doing this with people who have sore shoulders and the like.
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Also, as at least a couple of people have already found, Contra Syncretist is now feeding the blog posts to a Twitter account (@csyncretist) as well as the Facebook page.
Happy Friday!
Carry on Dancing,
CS
Also, as at least a couple of people have already found, Contra Syncretist is now feeding the blog posts to a Twitter account (@csyncretist) as well as the Facebook page.
Happy Friday!
Carry on Dancing,
CS
