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Mike O'Connor sent this (now updated) to the ECD List in April 2020 after much discussion on the topic.

Many of you who are callers have extensive and well organized files of dances, and you will have instructions and dots for all or most of these dances.  But others may not, and I thought that non-callers might be interested to see who has choreographed or reconstructed them.  So I have added a column giving that information, taking the names from the submissions, the Lambertville list of ECD videos that David Tilove has assembled, and Colin's website.  I decided that trying to distinguish between new compositions and reconstructions wasn't worth the effort, but this means that I may have identified a reconstructor whose version is not the same as the version that the person suggesting the dance preferred.  If this is you, you can change it.

Russell Owen, in Seattle, suggested that he would find it interesting to be able to look back and see who had suggested the different dances, so I have done what I could to add a column with the initials of those I could identify.  I thought it might provide a basis for future conversations among people who don't know each other, perhaps next summer at a dance camp. "Oh, you're the one who recommended XYZ!  I really loved learning that dance." It is not complete.  I don't know if many people will care, but if you do, again you can update this page.

Some people who proposed dances mentioned the books in which the dances were published.  I started trying to add this, but gave up.  I could do it for Fried's dances, but I don't have enough of Colin's, or Gary's, or other dance books to do this.  If someone wants to take this on, be my guest.

This is perhaps just an idle curiosity, but people here have been so creative lately that I expect that several will assemble one or more programs exclusively or primarily from the list.  Unlikely that this could happen much before fall, but maybe those who do will share their programs on this List afterwards and tell us of the reactions of your dancers.  With luck, maybe late November or early December would be a good target.

Index of Nominators

List of dances

Total Nominators: 17   Total Dances: 92