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Relationship Sight Calling Simplified
This 14-page white paper by Kip Garvey explores how understanding the patterns of relationships that occur in normally arranged couples can enhance a caller's control while sight calling and resolving ... Read More
Two Couple Calling For New Callers
Kip Garvey explains how new callers can practice and develop their choreography skills by calling to two couples. This allows new callers to focus better on many fundamentals of call ... Read More
Mental Image Calling (Ackerman & French)
Type Document Author Bill Ackerman and Rob French Date 2021-04-15 Links Document PDF Description This 132-page document by Bill Ackerman and Rob French provides an analysis and extension of Don ... Read More
Mental Image Calling Materials
Mental Image is a calling technique that allows the caller to mentally track dancers and successfully resolve without visually checking the square. Of course, callers must observe the square to ... Read More
Calling for Gay Square Dance Groups
There are some differences in culture and customs between straight and gay square dance groups. Callers who have never called for a gay group before often have questions about what ... Read More
Out Of Sight (book)
Out of Sight is a book that teaches square dance callers how to manage choreography using a mental image system ... Read More
Sight And Module Resolution Systems Document
This document is a compendium describing dozens of known systems for resolving squares, including both sight and module based approaches. The objective was to document as many systems as possible ... Read More
ACC Reference Material List
This article contains a table that lists many items commonly recommended to student callers by their coaches. Live links are provided where materials or information about them is available online ... Read More
Caller Training Handouts
Caller training handouts: a collection of handouts used in caller training presentations on various topics ... Read More
Education Recordings (and documents) About Leadership
This collection lists educational audio recordings about Leadership from past CALLERLAB conventions ... Read More
Education Recordings Of Arden Hopkin Voice Sessions
Arden Hopkin was an acclaimed vocal coach who delivered both general sessions and one-on-one coaching sessions at a large number of callerlab conventions from 1981 through 2011. This article contains ... Read More
KnowledgeBase Statistics
The KnowledgeBase currently contains 354 articles grouped into 3 categories and described with 44 different information tags. The graphs below depict KnowledgeBase traffic for the years indicated. "Views Per Month" ... Read More
Tim Marriner’s Caller Education Materials
Tim Marriner was a CALLERLAB Accredited Caller Coach who created and published a large quantity of caller educational material over the years. Tim generously made this wealth of informative articles ... Read More
Education Recordings About Modules
A collection of education recordings from CALLERLAB conventions that deal with modules ... Read More
CALLERLAB Published Document Register
This article contains a register of documents and materials that CALLERLAB has published for external distribution and usage ... Read More
Checker Cheats
Before the days of computers callers would write or work through choreography using "checkers" or "dolls". The checkers were usually colored pieces of plastic to represent the 8 dancers. The ... Read More
Ed Foote – All Things Considered
Ed Foote is a well known caller who has been calling since 1965. He was a founding father of Challenge dancing and served as Chairman of the CALLERLAB Challenge Committee ... Read More
Behind The Mike Newsletter
Barry Wonson edits an Australian caller newsletter called Behind The Mike. It consistently presents a wealth of useful information for callers and dance leaders. You can subscribe to have editions ... Read More
Caller Training Materials
Newer callers or people wondering what might be involved in learning to call are interested in what kind of educational material might be available. This article summarizes some available caller ... Read More
Lots Of Stuff About Modules
This summary article aggregates a great deal of material on the use of modules in square dance choreography. Modules provide a powerful mechanism for creating and presenting square dance choreography ... Read More
66th US National Keynote by Eric Henerlau
This article contains the text of a keynote address by Eric Henerlau at the 66th US National in Cincinnati in 2017. It is full of great ideas for growing square ... Read More
As I Saw It – Bob Osgood (book)
This book was compiled and edited by Paul Moore. It describes the life and career of Bob Osgood, one of the founding fathers of MWSD and through that lens provides ... Read More
Media Articles on Square Dancing
This summary article contains a table that points to a number of media articles about square dancing or people involved in square dancing. They frequently contain information useful in the ... Read More
CALLERLAB Convention Audio Recordings (as of Oct 31, 2018)
Each year the CALLERLAB Convention provides two full days of education and information sessions. For many years audio recordings have been made of selected sessions, and latterly some have also ... Read More
CALLERLAB Convention Video Recordings (as of Aug 18, 2022)
Each year the CALLERLAB Convention provides two full days of education and information sessions. For many years audio recordings have been made of selected sessions, and latterly some have also ... Read More
Caller Mentoring Guidelines
DOCUMENT: This document was prepared by the Caller Training Committee to assist those callers who are mentoring newer callers ... Read More
Caller Drill Program
IDEA: One of the most difficult parts of learning to call is finding opportunities to practice with live dancers. Today's computer technologies could compensate for some of that by providing ... Read More