[Callers] Fwd: 9-person dance?

[Martha Wild via Callers]

More about Pride of Pingle.

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> From: Martha Wild <mawild at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: January 22, 2016 at 9:23:51 PM PST
> To: "Winston, Alan P." <winston at slac.stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] 9-person dance?
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> You may find the following article by Ed Butenhof containing a letter from Ken Alexander (p.7) in this short publication interesting, as it has more info about P of P. The dance also had the new Pingle do a basket swing with couple four during the swing part at the end!  Folk process in motion, as is pointed out. The article is from 1982, Ken says he wrote the dance “some years ago” so my guess would be sometime in the 1970s. 
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> http://www.lloydshaw.org/Resources/adc/198205i.pdf <http://www.lloydshaw.org/Resources/adc/198205i.pdf>
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>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Winston, Alan P. <winston at slac.stanford.edu <mailto:winston at slac.stanford.edu>> wrote:
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>> I had it in my head that it was written by Roger Whynot but googled and found an attribution to Ken Alexander.
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>> I read someplace that it was written as "Pride of the Dingle".  I see that a dance of that name is listed as being in the Fried de Metz Herman collection (by multiple authors) "Potter's Porch", which I don't have here at work to verify.
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>> Don't know if that helps in any way.
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>> -- Alan
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>> On 1/22/2016 6:59 PM, Martha Wild via Callers wrote:
>>> There’s a really neat oddball one by Erik Hoffman called “The Millennium Bug”. Not sure what book of his it is in, though.
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>>> There’s another traditional one called “Pride of the Pingle” for four couples +1. Line up as for a reel of four couples, doesn’t really matter if it is proper or not. The lone person stands at the top center of the set above the first couple and faces down.
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>>> Pride of the Pingle    9 people, 4 couple (proper) set and one extra    Traditional
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>>> A1) All up a double and back without taking hands, while the “Pingle” goes down a double and back between them, 2X
>>> A2) All allemande right partners half way, turn around and allemande left partners half way back. While this happens, the “Pingle” joins in the first couple’s allemande with their right hand to form a little right hand star of three. This moves the “Pingle” down one place, and they can then stick out their left hand and join the left allemande of couple 2 as a little group of 3.
>>> This is then repeated, with all continuing to allemande right partners half way, allemande left partners half way back, as the “Pingle” joins in right with couple 3, and then left with couple 4 to reach the bottom. A lot to say but easier to do.
>>> B1) The “Pingle” then joins on to one or other of the long lines (in the old strictly proper form they would join their gender role line, but nowadays and in family dances it’s just join a line). The lines of four and five then go forward and back twice, pushing the longer line up the set to push out a new unmatched “Pingle” at the top. 
>>> B2) All then swing the person across from them that they are matched with, except the new “Pingle”. 
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>>> I heard it called “Pride of the Pingle” but somewhere I also saw it as “Pride of the Dingle” so I’m not perfectly sure which name it is. 
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>>> Martha
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>>>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Andy Shore via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
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>>>> The Prime Minister aka The New Parliament House Jig
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>>>> http://www.barndances.org.uk/dance-detail.php?danceNameParam=the-new-parliament-house-jig <http://www.barndances.org.uk/dance-detail.php?danceNameParam=the-new-parliament-house-jig>
>>>> https://youtu.be/wa_zj_vY-RI <https://youtu.be/wa_zj_vY-RI>
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>>>> I descends into the usual chaos, but lots of fun
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>>>> /Andy Shore
>>>> Santa Cruz, CA
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>>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Richard Fischer via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
>>>> Can anyone suggest a 9-person dance?  I'm aware of the traditional Nine-Pin, and Monkey in the Middle by Sherry Nevins.
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>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Richard Fischer
>>>> 
>>>> Princeton, NJ
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