![]() ![]() This consists of English Country Dances (both Playford-style and traditional-style), American Squares and Contras, over 200 Scottish Dances and a few others. I realise it will take you some time to set all this up, but I've given you a head start by providing you with the details of my repertoire of over 2,000 dances. The main area contains the actual dance instructions. The main screen shows one of up to five tabs: Rules, Dances, Events, Recordings and Folders, depending on settings in the View menu.ĭances contains all the dances in your repertoire: Title, Format, Style, Level of difficulty, Author, Collection, Music (information for the band, or information about what track of what recording you use), and so on. Click the image on the left - I've started it where I'm asked about my Dance Organiser but you can move the slider back to watch the whole event if you like. In July 2020 I led a Zoom Callers' Workshop for Scissortail in Oklahoma, in which I had been asked to talk mainly about websites, but there were also a lot of questions about my Dance Organiser program which I did my best to answer by demonstration. ![]() Make sure you click the “Maximize” button in the bottom right corner. You can Watch a video where I show you how to use the program - it runs for 18 minutes rather than the 10 minutes I optimistically predicted. You can read the article I wrote about Programme Planning for CDSS News. On an Apple Mac it's possible to run Windows programs under a Windows-like environment called “Crossover Mac” (just Google it) which sells for £32 / $40 - I can't try it since I don't have a Mac, but I'd expect it to work, and you can try it free for 14 days so if it doesn't work or you don't like the Dance Organiser it will cost you nothing. It is written in Delphi (a far superior language to Access, C++ and Visual BASIC in my opinion) and it runs on Windows 95 upwards. The two sides have come together in a computer program I have written for organising my dances, and I am making it available to other callers. Dance Organiser WebEdit Progression Checkerĭance OrganiserIn my spare time when not writing and calling dances I'm a computer programmer. ![]()
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