Ahwhoops! Square dancing. Modern Western squares have sets of calls divided into lists. The first ninety or so calls are Mainstream, with which a person can dance to any caller in the world so long as the dance is labeled Mainstream. This is a little, but not a whale of a lot, bigger than the list of calls commonly used at contra dances.
Then each list builds on the previous, adding some. Plus, A1, A2, C1, C2, C3A, C3B... by the time the dancer has reached C3B he knows some six or seven hundred calls. There are also "concepts", modifier-words: do this call as if each couple were only one dancer, for example, is one of the simplest modifiers. C3B has probably some fifty or so modifiers, all told. C3B is the level I called in Stockholm.
Everything not on C3B gets lumped into the last and by far largest list, C4. Going from new-dancer to C3B is about like going from C3B to C4. It technically contains something like five thousand calls and concepts, although only between one and two thousand are in common use. More is being invented continuously.
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Then each list builds on the previous, adding some. Plus, A1, A2, C1, C2, C3A, C3B... by the time the dancer has reached C3B he knows some six or seven hundred calls. There are also "concepts", modifier-words: do this call as if each couple were only one dancer, for example, is one of the simplest modifiers. C3B has probably some fifty or so modifiers, all told. C3B is the level I called in Stockholm.
Everything not on C3B gets lumped into the last and by far largest list, C4. Going from new-dancer to C3B is about like going from C3B to C4. It technically contains something like five thousand calls and concepts, although only between one and two thousand are in common use. More is being invented continuously.