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

Linda S. Mrosko elmerosko at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 14:13:20 PST 2017


Correction:
M1 faces 4 on his right and W1 faces the 4 on her left should read M1 faces
4 on his "Left" and W1 faces the 4 on her "Right"

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Linda S. Mrosko <elmerosko at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
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