[Callers] Ralph Page Style

[Martha Wild via Callers]

One of the reasons I wrote “Hot Cross Bunny” was because I love the transition of swinging, facing up, and going proper down the outside, but I don’t like the wait to be active. So it’s a double-progression dance, and usually everyone gets their chance to be active. In a crowd that won’t be confused by it, you can also let the #2 couple swing during A1 (or g and swing) and face up for when the #1s get back to them (as some people do in Chorus Jig as well to let the 2s have a swing while the ones go down the outside).

Martha Wild

Hot Cross Bunny 
Duple Proper

A1) Ones down the outside, come back up and cross to each other’s place (woman passing closer to the other couple)

A2) Circle left once around
Do-si-do neighbor once and a half (or think of it as once and then pass through)

B1) Next neighbor g and swing

B2) Long lines forward and back
Ones swing and face up


> On Oct 18, 2016, at 3:55 AM, Bob Stein via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> 
> I started dancing in the Boston area in the late 60s and the transitions B2->A1 in Chorus Jig and Rory O’More were exactly as Jim has described them.  It was in fact fun to vary the transition from one form to the other to make the dance more interesting.  Both rolling into a cast off and pulling across (after moving back but not letting go from the swing) were both great fun.  It needs to be remembered however that the style of swing was generally different back then.   Most people used some form of barrel hold (as was promoted by Ted S.) rather than a ballroom hold.  (Also important for dancing in often very crowded halls.)
> Bob
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