This workshop is intended to introduce participants to positional calling — sometimes described as global terminology — for contra dancing. Discover how the skills you already cultivate as a caller can be enhanced by positional thinking, teaching, and calling — and learn how to use those skills to create a more welcoming, inclusive atmosphere at your dances. This workshop was participatory rather than prescriptive, although Louise did introduce the strategies that she uses in her own teaching and calling as helpful starting points. Louise has been calling both contra and ECD positionally since 2017 in both the US and the UK.
Please note that at the time of this programme, the Friends of English Dance was known as the Friends of Cecil Sharp House. We are not affiliated with the English Folk Dance and Song Society and no longer have any connection with Cecil Sharp House.