New! Calendar - Rich Reel's Calling Schedule

Choreography   Complete Sequences (Figures, Cards)

Circle/Thar/Ring Figures:     Mainstream     Plus
Bucket Stirs     Mainstream     Plus
Singing Call Breaks:     Mainstream     Plus
Singing Call Figures:     Intro / One Night     Mainstream     Plus
Andy Shore's Singing Call Figures in my notation   [Andy's original PDF document]
Make Up Your Own Singing Call Figures with this handy guide. (What I use most!)
"If You Want To" Square Dance Choreo - Collected by Clark Baker
Patter:     (Nothing here.  Sorry, I'm a sight caller)

Choreography Pieces - material for writing cards or developing sight calling skills

Get-ins and Opening Calls  from a Squared Set
Get-in to:     ZERO LINE [L1p]     ZERO BOX [B1c]     LEAD RIGHT BOX [B4c]
Equivalents:   Heads or Sides... Square Thru 4   Square Thru 2   Lead Right   Lead Left
Other Get-ins:     Standard Arrangements     Non-standard Arrangements
Choreo Bits - calls organized by starting formation, arrangement, and flow
Common Formations:   [ B   C   D   F   L   LO   M   P   Q   R   S   T   W   TW ]     more...
Squared Set:   [ S ]               What are these formation symbols?
Zeros   Many uses including "un-calling" a call
Call Equivalents   add variety with calls and groups of calls that do the same thing

Articles about choreography and related topics...   (work in process)
  - Calling Through Scoot Back Waves - Tracking arrangement through #1 and #2 arrangement waves
  - Points for Better Calling - List of items I belive comprise good calling
  - Asymmetric Tricks - Easy to call asymmetric gimmicks
  - "If You Want To" Square Dance Choreo - Collected by Clark Baker


Resolving The Square
Surprise Get-outs - Snap-shot resolves to AL, RLG, and Prom
From:   Box/8-Chain   Lines   DPT   Waves   2-Face Lines
Most common FASR's:   [B1c]   [B4c]   [L1p]   [L2p]   more...
Dixie Grand Get-outs
Oops! (out of sequence) ...Promenade Don't Stop... Now what?! - Clever Get-outs
Here is an index to all getouts with diagrams
Conversions from one type of pairing to another - At the bottom of every page of Get-outs
Zeros   Many uses including "un-calling" a call
Call Equivalents   add variety with calls and groups of calls that do the same thing
At Home Sight Resolve - Return-to-home techniques
Keep Order / Change Order Modules - Simple mental image method and sight calling aid

Articles about square resolution and related topics...   (work in process)
  - F-A-S-R and other terminology explained
  - The Easiest way to resolve a square
  - How to Resolve a Square 2 Face Line Method - Step by step process taught in caller schools
  - How to resolve a square step by step
  - Selecting Key Couples - Various ways of memorizing the square for sight resolve
  - How to pair a couple from every combination in standard arrangement
  - How many ways are there to mix up dancers in a square?     (16 with standard arrangement)
  - 'bang' Setup Notation - A different method for describing setup
  - Discovering Arrangement discretely while sight calling to mixed-gender squares
  - Asymmetric Resolve - includes hints for fixing broken squares


Singing Call
Breaks:     Mainstream     Plus
Figures:     Intro / One Night     Mainstream     Plus
Figure Generator - Make up your own figures with this handy guide
Bucket Stirs     Mainstream     Plus

Music / Records
How I get my records   How you can too!
My Record Collection     (most of it)
Standard Record Label Abbreviations   Includes label color
My Wanted Records - I'll pay $20 a piece + shipping!
Tap for Beats Per Minute - Shows BPM as you tap with the music
Legal Issues: Using Copyrighted Music for Square Dancing

Teaching
Teaching Points   Glossary Items   Mainstream   Plus     (crude notes)
Teaching Order   Mainstream   Plus

Ideas   Cool stuff I haven't worked out yet - unrefined notes - for more experienced callers
Mainstream     Plus     Voice Notes - the very latest notes to myself

Diagrams   Pages on ALL8.com containing diagrams
Glossery of Formations with Arrangement (plain text diagrams)
Diagrams of Formations (no arrangement)
Common FASR Setups Used for Getouts
FASR Terminology Explained, FASROO
16 Combinations: [B], [F], [L], [P], [W]
32 Combinations: [B]
Proposed Generalized Formation Notation: Lines, Columns
Methods for Selecting Key Couples to memorize before sight calling
The Easiest Way to Resolve a Square
How to Resolve a Square 2 Face Line Method - Step by step process taught in caller schools
How to Pair Key Couples for Resolve (plain text digrams)
Simple Module Method
Introduction to 'bang' Setup Notation

 

Articles

Square Dance Articles on ALL8.com

The Easiest Way to Resolve a Square
Selecting Key Couples for Resolve - Different ways of memorizing the square for sight resolve
F-A-S-R and other terminology explained
How to Resolve a Square 2 Face Line Method - Step by step process taught in caller schools
How to Resolve - Overview of the process
How many combinations are there? - A look at the math behind FASR and resolving the square
The 16 Combinations with Standard Arrangement
How to Pair a Couple - One of the first steps of resolving the square
At Home Sight Resolves - Return-to-home techniques
Keep Order / Change Order Modules - Simple mental image method and sight calling aid
'bang' Setup Notation - A different method for describing setup
Discovering Arrangement discretely while sight calling to mixed-gender squares
Calling Through Scoot Back Waves - Tracking arrangement through #1 and #2 arrangement waves
Asymmetric Tricks - Easy to call asymmetric gimmicks
Asymmetric Resolve - Includes hints for fixing broken squares
"If You Want To" Square Dance Choreo - Collected by Clark Baker
How I get my records   How you can too!
How I get alternative square dance music
Legal Issues: Using Copyrighted Music for Square Dancing
Points for Better Calling - List of items that I believe comprise good calling

Links

High Quality Square Dance Links

Callerlab - List/Definitions also at dosado.com: Mainstream Plus Advanced C1 C2 (these are old)
Western Square Dancing - Now run by Tom Dillander
Vic & Debbie Ceder Square Dance Website - Huge database of square dance information
Gay Square Dance Links   IAGSDC - Fly-ins - IAGSDC Clubs - SF Area Clubs - GCA   more...

Calendar of Square Dance Events - from MiXeD-UP SQUaReS by Mark Brautigam
Square Dancing Around the San Francisco Bay Area including new classes

Square Dance Animation
Square Dance Animations from Japan - American Server
"People Picture" Animations from Japan:   Mainstream   Plus
Jim Penrod's animations (Click the letter (A) or Animation) for animations   Mainstream   Plus   Advanced
Bob Gartner's Animations (I found a number of these confusing and a few inaccurate)

Caller Listings
Searchable Database of Callers - by Vic Ceder
Comprehensive list of callers and round dance cuers by Dave & Brenda Gipson

For Callers
"SD" FREE Powerfull Checker Moving Program for PC, Unix.
Find choreography (and other) SD software at Dosado.com, Hilton Audio and Vic Ceder.
Interactive Get-outs from anywhere (Basic thru C3A) - by Vic Ceder
Ideas for Interesting Mainstream from the sd-callers mailing list
Ed Gilmore's Caller School from 1949   Ed Gilmore interview 1961 ...wisdom for today
Bob Brundage Caller Interviews - audio recordings at Square Dance Foundation New England
Handholds - Why and How - by Orlo Hoadley
Call Sound Effects at all levels - by Paul Asente
Gero Teufert's Callers Corner - Many fine articles on calling theory - also in German
Frank Lescrinier's Choreography Page
Tap for Beats Per Minute - BPM Counter (JavaScript runs in your browser)
I occasionally run a Newer Caller Workshop in the San Francisco Bay Area
      more links...

I welcome comments and questions.  Errors will be corrected at once.  I'm a friendly guy, just say hi!  about me

Since 11 Aug 1998   ALL8.com   Richard Reel   Hayward California USA