[Callers] Box - Swat - CA - Jersey/Nevada

[Erik Hoffman via Callers]

I learned several subtle distinctions. Back in the 80s, when Larry 
Edelman was on staff at lots of our weeks and weekends, he'd drill us in 
these figures:

These moves depend on where you're facing when you start, and which way 
you face when you end.

Both Box the Gnat and Swat the Flea start facing the person you're doing 
it with, and have you change places and end facing them
Box the Gnat starts facing the person you're boxing with, joining right 
hands turning the woman or raven under, and swapping places, ending 
facing each other and right hands are still joined.
Swat the Flea is the same, except you have left hands joining left hands

Both the California Twirl (also called the Frontier Twirl) starts 
standing next to the person you're doing it with, woman or raven on 
right, man or lark on left with near hands joined, and ends with the 
couple about facing. That it, it results in the pair turning as a couple.
The Jersey or Nevada Twirl does the same, but with the man (or lark) on 
the right, woman (or raven) on the left.

A star through starts with a pair facing each other with the man's 
(lark's) right hand joined with the woman's (raven's) left hand and ends 
with them swapping sides, but facing the same direction.

There are several contras that use it. A part might be

A1 facing your new neighbor: join inside hands (man's right, woman's 
left), balance, star through (end facing partner); Women chain

I don't recall if there's a reverse star through: starting facing 
someone, joining hands -- Man's left, Woman's right, and "reverse star 
through (moon through?) -- ending side by side, woman on left, man on right.

And I don't think I've ever learned one where you start side by side, do 
a swap to change, and end up facing each other....

~erik hoffman
     oakland, ca

On 6/12/2015 9:17 PM, Jeff Kaufman via Callers wrote:
>
> Huh. If learned it as:
>
> G right in L left: California twirl
> G right in L right: box the gnat
> G left in L left: swat the flea
> G left in L right: star through
>
> Or just tell people what hands to join and then "twirl to swap".
>
> On Jun 12, 2015 10:40 PM, "Charles M. Hannum via Callers" 
> <callers at lists.sharedweight.net 
> <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
>
>     Indeed, the only times I've seen “star thru” used in contra, it
>     was directly borrowed from MWSD.
>
>     This is what Callerlab says.  Even in Tech Squares it's considered
>     incorrect to call it from other formations.
>
>
>     24. Star Thru
>
>     Starting formation: Facing Dancers (man facing woman)
>
>     Command example: Star Thru
>
>     Dance action: Man places his right hand against woman's left hand,
>     palm to palm with fingers up, to make an arch. As the dancers move
>     forward the woman does a one quarter (90 degrees) left face turn
>     under the arch, while the man does a one quarter (90 degrees) turn
>     to the right moving past the woman.
>
>     Ending formation: Couple
>
>     Timing: 4
>
>     Styling: Hands are joined in raised position at approximately eye
>     level, palm to palm, with fingers pointed up to form an arch. The
>     arch will be offset to the man's right and woman's left. The man's
>     hand should be used to stabilize as the woman provides her own
>     momentum. As the call is completed, the hand grip should be
>     readjusted to couple handhold.
>
>     On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers
>     <callers at lists.sharedweight.net
>     <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, Jeff Kaufman via Callers wrote:
>         >
>         > Nit: a "California twirl with other hands" is traditionally
>         called a "star
>         > through".
>
>         Really?  I haven't seen Star Thru in contra much; in MWSD, at
>         least, Star
>         Thru is normally done with partners facing each other, as
>         opposed to the
>         California Twirl with partners facing the same direction. 
>         What's being
>         asked for here is a sashayed California Twirl -- I don't think
>         I've ever
>         seen that before.  However, "Nevada Twirl" does have plenty of
>         hits when
>         I search, which suggests a clear provenance...
>
>         (You could argue that in a ring partners are sort-of facing
>         each other,
>         but I think that's a wasted argument when people already have
>         a clear
>         choreographic name for the concept.)
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