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Harold & Meredith Sears



Meredith and I are Round Dancers and Round Dance instructors. Round Dancing is choreographed and cued ballroom dancing. We have put together an extensive handbook: Round Dancing — A Figure & Styling Manual. There, we describe much more about what Round Dancing is, we describe the steps and the figures that make up our round dances, and we discuss how particular moves can be danced more comfortably. This manual is a compilation from many teachers and writers.

Telefeathers --

We share the running of Carousel Club #171 with Chris & Terri Cantrell. Our dance club is the Telefeathers. It is an advanced club, dancing at all levels but primarily at phases IV through VI. We look for the best of the new choreography, we try to keep up with most of the great variety of rhythms available, and we try to dance and to keep in our repertoir many of the great classics of the past. It's a tall order but a fun goal. Smile

We dance at the Rose Hill Grange, 4001 E. 68th Ave., Commerce City, CO (corner of 68th & Colorado Blvd), Thursdays, 7pm - 9:30pm. Map




Calendar

February
2
dancing

9
dancing

16
dancing

23
dancing
March
1
dancing

8
dancing

15
dancing

22
dancing
April
5
dancing

12
dancing

19
dancing

26
dancing

Subject to change. We maintain an email list through which we send regular updates and news. Contact us to join this list or to get the latest information.

Recent Dance Program

A recent evening program is given below (or even the upcoming program, if I get it organized in time). Currently, we're trying a few strategies, for variety:

  • Of course, we are dancing those dances recently learned with a full teach. We need to repeat these and try to work them into some kind of deeper muscle memory.
  • A Review is a second look at the previous week's teach.
  • We occasionally resurrect an Oldie Challenge. We might dance it, or parts of it, calling up deep, deep muscle memory, and we could even decide that this is worth a new review or teach.
  • We are programming a regular View & Do. This is a dance containing mostly standard figures and few or no step cues or modified figures. With a quick look at one or just a few "sections of interest," we should be able to dance it "to cues." We accomplish two things: we add a dance to our repertoire fairly quickly, and we develop our ability to "sight read" -- to dance to individual cues that we know well; it is only the specific sequence of cues that is new to us.

Program for 26 January 2012

Somos (Moore 5 Rum)

Unchained (Worlock 6 W)

Bring It On Home To Me (Davis 5 STS)

Senorita Tango (Rumble 4 Tan)

Eso Besso (Shibata 5 Sam)

Neville's Waltz (Eum/Hadley 5 W)

Was That the Human Thing To Do (Valenta 5 FT)

River Lullaby VI (DeChenne 6 W)


view & do

Diamonds (Parker 4 QS 2003)

teach
South of the Border (Bahr 5 Rum/Cha 1992)


Trumpet Fiesta (Goss 6 PD)

Hallelujah Waltz (Read 6 HCW)

I Want You Back (Hurd 5 Cha)

It Takes Two (Goss 4 STS)


Requests Welcome Anytime


 See You Next WeekNotes


Recent Teaches
(Taught by Cantrells and more recently by us. Click on the link to download the cue sheet -- PDF or DOC format. Contact us for cued music. For past history, visit Cantrell Web site -- link above.)

South Of the Border (Bahr 5 Rum/Cha)
Diamonds (Parker 4 QS)
Neville's Waltz (Eum/Hadley 5 W)
River Lullaby VI (DeChenne 6 W)
Was That the Human Thing To Do (Valenta 5 FT)
Chewin' Gum (Moore 4 QS)
On Days Like These (Preskitt 6 Bol)
Remordimiento (Lamberty 6 Tan)
Honey On the Vine (Read 5 FT)
Cirquedu Soleil Tango (Cantrell 4 AT) (rough head cues)
Eso Besso (Shibata 5 Sam)
The Sweet Escape (Lamberty 5 J)
Midnight Tango (Vogt 6 Tan)
A Summer Place (Schmidt 4 STS)
Rolling In the Deep (Hilton 4 Cha)
Eager Beaver (Moore 4 FT)
Marble Halls (Hilton 6 W)
Spiderman (Goss/Figwer 4 QS)
Jelly Roll (Hurd 6 QS)
Cider House Rules (Rotscheid 6 W)
Think Of Me (Blackford 5 Bol)
The Best You Can (Read 4 J)
Satin Doll (DeChenne 6 FT)
Tonight We Dance (Herr 5 Mer)
Hurricane Tango (Lamberty 6 Tan)
The Inner Light (Prow 5 W)








Our Choreography

El Choclo IV (Sears 4 Tan)














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