Tonight’s the night I call my first contra dance (dance meaning one dance in an evening of contra dancing as opposed to dance meaning the whole evening of contra dancing…in square dancing, we have tips, which avoids the terminology confusion). Actually, I’m calling two dances; the first is Katie’s Trip to Starbase Twelve and the second is 24th of October, which I wrote about here. Both are a little quirky; as I was running errands today, I was thinking about how I was going to do the walkthrus. It’s important to (a) be clear, and (b) not talk too much. My guess is I’ll have a tendency to overteach; I’m used to teaching calls to square dancers so that they can do the call from whatever formation/arrangement any (sadistic?) caller puts them in, as opposed to explaining a dance to contra dancers who only have to keep it in their heads for the next 10 or so minutes.