Hi all,Here's my perspective on Julie's dance versus Berkshires.Julie's dance has the potential to be more challenging, as it is a smaller dance with a more selective guest list. However, the spring Julie dances with a lot of callers (Coop, Rob, Noriko, Bill van Melle, and others) can be quite variable across tips, in terms of both speed and difficulty. Probably the difference in styles among different callers is bigger than the average difference between the two dances.Personally, I probably called harder at Berkshires in October than I did at Julie's in August. At Berkshires, we had four squares, and I generally felt that having two squares out of four succeed was sufficient (and that happened a lot). At Julie's, we had three squares, and 50% success was not an option. I had to choose between aiming for 1/3 vs aiming for 2/3, and I generally aimed for 2/3. I don't know if I would take the same approach to future dances, but that is what I did in 2024.If you are in search of some material that is easier than either of these dances, I suggest Importers. They are back to holding 3-4 weekends per year, although some of it is c3. Rob French called there in November 2024. Ryo Sasaki called there in September 2024. I went to Ryo's dance, and enjoyed it. You can find Importers recordings on Coop's web site, along with the Berkshires and Julie recordings.Sue--On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM Alex Dehnert via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Andy Latto via tg wrote:
> I really enjoyed dancing Julie's dance, which I found very hard, and
> the Friday 13th, which I found ridiculously hard, last night. But my
> preference would be to balance this with a couple tips of slightly
> easier stuff, at a level where we could expect to get, say, more than
> half the sequences without stopping the tape.
I think I pretty much agree with this.
I'm not a great judge of the difficulties of different venues, but if we
want more material, both https://krubow.com/Recordings/Recordings.html and
https://challengedance.org/recordings/c4.html seem to have a variety of C4
material, including from sometime in the last decade. My impression is
that Keith's site isn't getting new recordings, but the recordings on
there can still be acquired. Coop's site looks to be heavily Julie's and
Berkshires, but there's a bunch of other stuff too.
It also looks like, from the late teens, I have various of C-Gulls,
Extravaganza, Importers, and Jane dances, that I got from Lotta.
~~Alex
>
> Do other people feel the same way?
> And if so, do we have some easier C4 available?
>
> Andy
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