[Callers] Name that dance (5-cpl, square+middle)

[Linda S. Mrosko]

I had forgotten about this square.  It looked so familiar.  Years and years
ago, Kathy Anderson called this square at a dance event I attended.  My
notes show it as "English Dance for Five Couples."  I loved this dance!

Forgive my note-taking from so long ago:

*The Formation*:
Middle couple is C1 and they face the music.
Outside couples shift left 1/8 so they are diagonal to the music.
C1 stands back to back -- M1 faces 4 on his right and W1 faces the 4 on her
left.

*The Dance*:
C1 circles left with the 4 they face (2 separate circles)
Within the same groups, just the 3 gents Star Right (M1 with the 2 gents he
circled with) while the 3 women Star Right (W1 with the 2 ladies she
circled with)

C1 meet and change groups (M1 dances w/the 4 people W1 danced with and W1
dances with the 4 people M1 danced with); repeat circles and stars
C1 meet again and face any couple they chose (let's call the new couple C2
for clarity) to do the half R&L thru with, using a "power turn" to end
facing the next couple to the right of the orig C1 (call them C3)
C3 does a half R&L thru with C4
C4 does a half R&L thru with C5 who becomes the new middle couple

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Yaron Shragai via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I picked up this dance at Flurry '17.  Iirc, the caller (I think it was
> Bob Isaacs, not sure, it was near the end of the festival, it's all kinda
> fuzzy...) said he picked it up at another festival and didn't know the name
> of it.  He named the caller that he got it from - but I don't remember the
> name...
>
> Formation: square with a cpl in the middle (i.e. 5 cpls)
> A:
> Middle cpl 1/2 R&L with cpl #1, which becomes new middle cpl
> That cpl uses momentum from courtesy turn to turn twd cpl #2, 1/2 R&L with
> that cpl
> Cpl #2 becomes middle, 1/2 R&L with cpl #3
> Cpl #3 becomes middle, 1/2 R&L with cpl #4
> Cpl #4 becomes middle [turns to face current #1, which is orig middle]
> B:
> Couples currently along up/dn axis (heads+middle) turn back on ptnr, now
> all can form 2 rings of 5, circle L/R;
> Ptnr swing (some ppl may have to spin around to find Ptnr)
>
> Thanks!
> Yaron Shragai
>
>
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