[Callers] Syzygy dance?

JD Erskine via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Sat Nov 5 00:38:52 PDT 2016


On 2016-11-02 1027, Richard Hart via Callers wrote:
> Any recommendations for a dance on Monday, Nov. 14, a day when the moon
> will be the closest it's been in 70 years? We'll want to celebrate then,
> I'm sure, at the Nelson dance! For a syzygy, if for no other reason!!
>
> A day we'll want to celebrate, I'm sure.

So, I put "moon" in the search box at Antony's site and received a load 
of possibilities.
["Antony’s Country Dance Database contains 15299 entries"]

There are two for "celestial", quite a few for "orbit" and three with 
"planet" as part of the name, including Planetary Convergences.

http://www.heywood.nl/antony/dances/

"Syzygy" and "perigee" had nil returns. "Eclipse", which really isn't in 
this instance, has two.

However,

syzygy contra dance

entered at https://DuckDuckGo.com  my go-to search engine (doesn't 
bubble-up responses for one thing) gave me a fun entry in an edition of 
the newsletter for The Folk Project (not a dance, sorry.)

(For a dance with Laura Winslow and the Big Chaos Band, Jan 2015)

"Consulting their notes and theory, Big Chaos Band contends that 
fractals repeat their patterns on every scale. As Winslow calls a hey, 
the protons and electrons of the helium molecules do a hey for four. 
When Chorus Jig is danced, there are cosmic contra corners among the 
celestial bodies. When the ladies allemande with the men orbiting, the 
planets orbit around their binary stars and when we line up in threes 
for triplets there is a syzygy in the heavens. Beware the black hole as 
we collapse into the center along with the butterfly effect created by a 
butterfly whirl."

Cheers, John
-- 
J.D. Erskine
Victoria, BC



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