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

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Back in 1994, Ted Sannella used a very similar version of this 5 couple
square at Mainewoods Dance camp. The A parts differed slightly but the
progression in the B part is the same. Ted told us he picked up the dance
in Denmark from a Danish caller, Inga Morton. Ted simply called it "A
Danish Dance" and had 2 versions of it. It provides a great change of
pace used occasionally.

John McIntire, Unity ME



On Mon, December 4, 2017 4:13 pm, Linda S. Mrosko via Callers wrote:

> 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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