2024 GCA
Caller School
Basic Information

Monday, July 1 -
Thursday, July 4, 2024

21c Durham Museum Hotel
Durham, North Carolina

Registration fee is only US$75.

Space is limited, so get your registration in early!

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Now you can spend three days with Caller Coach Patty Greene and Teaching Assistant Allan Hurst in a concentrated effort to expand your knowledge of square dance calling.  If the enrollment is large enough, Betsy Gotta will join as a second Caller Coach (TA to be determined).  Beginning callers will benefit from this intensive exposure to some of the best callers in the business today!

Immediately preceding the IAGSDC Convention in Durham, Nc

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Beginners

  • How to move dancers

  • Working with music

  • Creating and delivering choreography

  • Sight calling basics

  • Work through your material at the mic or in one-on-one sessions

  • More advanced instruction in all aspects of the art of calling

Something For Everyone!

  • Sight calling techniques

  • Reading and writing choreography

  • Equipment usage

  • Microphone technique

  • Vocal instruction

  • Creating choreography

  • Programming dances

  • Showmanship

  • Caller culture and etiquette

  • Callers associations

  • Responsibilities to the dancers

  • Plenty of microphone time for all students

Your Tuition Fee Includes:

  • 3 days of instruction by our excellent coaches

  • Personal attention from our superb teaching assistants

  • CALLERLAB New Caller Kit (beginners)

  • Choreographic checkers (beginners)

 

Thanks to the generous support of

All Join Hands Foundation

2024 Staff

Patty Greene

Monroe, NC

Patty is known for her singing, sense of humor, and love of dancers. She has been calling since 1996, and enjoys teaching new dancers. She has served on the Board of Governors and Executive Board  of CALLERLAB, and is the second woman ever elected to be the CALLERLAB Chairman of the Board (and the first to complete two terms).

Allan Hurst

Teaching Assistant, Sacramento, CA

Allan Hurst has been dancing since 1995 and calling since 1997. He currently serves on the CALLERLAB Marketing Committee, and has presented as a panelist and/or moderator at multiple CALLERLAB Conventions.

Betsy Gotta

CALLERLAB Accredited Caller Coach

Betsy Gotta has been square dancing since 1952 and calling since 1962.  As a full-time caller Betsy currently calls regularly for 5 square dance clubs, calls all programs from Contra through C-3B and is a Callerlab Accredited Caller Coach.

Arlene Kaspik attended her first GCA caller school in 2006 in Anaheim, California. When she returned to Chicago she was asked to be the class assistant for the Chi-Town Squares beginner class, a position she held for several years.