[MWSD] Spinning Windmills

[jbsegal]

dancingdeer was in town this weekend, and so we got to go dance A2 with the Spinning Windmills at Cherry Hill Park, College Park, MD, called by Gary Felton. lonebear also came out tonight.

10 couples. Dancing off of cards. 1 open and 5 carded tips. Singers on the 1st and last only. Average age: 65? Only 1 person in The Clothes.

Various notes I took:
from a wave: box counter rotate, Motivate = funky. Is there any reason to thing that the circulate of the rotated center 4 doesn't stay in the center box? I have a bit of instinct that says that the out-facing people should be circulating to the end of the (non-existent at that time) 4x2 column.

These folks also allemande by turning to face, clapping with their corner, and continuing on. I still don't like it, and neither does dancingdeer.

As well, they Circle Four, Breakout to a Line without the 2 couples actually connecting with each other. Ick.

In attendance was Linda Silversmith who, it seems, danced with Tech starting 2 months after its founding.

Gary started the carded dances with a 45 that sounded an awful lot like "Baka", by Outback but which was labeled as being called "Right" (b/w "Wrong") on Rhythm Records (Also see this homepage). Must remember to ask Chris (Tech dancer, brother of Graham - ex-Outback (and Dr. Didj)) about this. It sure as heque looked like a pirate record to me. No author credit was given on the disc.

It seems that an A2 class had just recently finished and that, to a certain extent, Gary was calling to the class... not that this was a bad thing. He'd repeat sequences that caused breakdowns with additional queuing; he'd work with certain calls repeatedly in a given tip to drill it, and so on. At the same time, he wasn't calling boring material.

Tomorrow, I may well try to go to Kenny Farris' dance in Silver Spring, though I'm told that, while being single won't be much of a problem, not having The Clothes might be.
Ah well, I can always leave again. I'll drop Clark's name and recommendation when I arrive and see if that sways Mr. Farris.

It's very late. I need to sleep.