[Callers] Swing Like Thunder

[Erik Barry Erhardt via Callers]

This is Lloyd Shaw's index of dances.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/dance-figures.html

This is also a very good resource for many of these Western Squares dances:
Rocky Mountain Caller: Bill Litchman's Calling Book
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Caller-Litchmans-Calling/dp/1890034207

Erik

-- 
Prof. Erik B. Erhardt, UNM Statistics, (505)750-4424  stat.unm.edu/~erike

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

>    Is there an index of dances on the Lloyd Shaw Foundation web site? I
> see to recall that there used to be one, but the link I had bookmarked no
> longer works with the new web site.
>
>    I'm assuming that the Docey Doe in this dance isn't just a dos-a-do,
> but is a more complex set of movements.  I know I've done some similar
> figures in the past, but is there an explanation for this somewhere on the
> web site?
>
>    Here is a version of the Basket Quadrille.  I think I got it from a
> Ralph Page book and modified it a bit.
>
> Basket Quadrille
> square (HS Keeper)
>
> Head couples forward and back
> Forward again and circle left
> Change that ring to a basket swing
> Right hand star (break that swing and star by the right)
> Left hand star
> Gents turn and swing the one behind
> Everyone home and swing their own
> Everyone promenade around the square
>
> Do for the heads, then the sides
>
> Final Figure:
>
> Head 2 couples to the center and back
> Side 2 couples to the center and back
> All 8 circle left
> All 8 basket swing
> Break that swing and circle left
> Swing your corner
> Circle left
> Swing your next corner
> Circle left
> Swing your next corner
> Circle left
> Swing your partner
> Promenade home
>
>    One bit of patter I have heard used for basket swings is something like.
>
> Gents take hands,
> Ladies duck under,
> Ladies take hands,
> Now swing like thunder.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On 6/14/2017 11:50 AM, DAVID HARDING via Callers wrote:
>
>> Also known as "California Fruit Basket," or "Ladies Bow, Gents Bow Under"
>> The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first Couple 2,
>> then couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
>> http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
>>
>> On June 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM dje h via Callers <
>>> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers,
>>> and they asked for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that
>>> it's probably a square called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much
>>> luck tracking down the actual moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I
>>> can't watch a video or listen to a recording. Does anyone have this dance
>>> in your collection? Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> Deborah Hyland
>>> St Louis
>>>
>>
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