[Callers] New Dance?

[Mac Mckeever]

Cary's dance is Woven Waves.  I really liked it and called it several times - and I hav also danced it on several occasions
I stopped calling it because I was not getting good feedback on the star figure from the dancers.
Mac McKeever
St Louis
 

    On Monday, October 2, 2017, 3:30:07 PM CDT, Bill Olson via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:  
 
 
Dugan and all, I don't know if Cary Ravitz actually "invented" the Gypsy Star but he wrote a dance entitled that and a lot of others that include it. Dugan, you're sort of Cary's protégé, right?, so you must know the dance. This is the same figure, correct??




bill



From: Callers <callers-bounces at lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Dugan Murphy via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] New Dance? Hi, Angela,
I've been calling the figure a "facing star," when I bother naming it at all while teaching or prompting it.

Also, nice dance, though I suspect that since experienced dancers tend to take fewer than eight beats to do half poussettes and 3/4 stars, I suspect that dancers may end up swinging for as many as 20 beats.
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:03:37 -0400
From: Angela DeCarlis <aedecarlis at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Callers] New Dance?
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Hey y'all!

After a lovely weekend of both Contra and English at Youth Dance Weekend, I
had an itch for programming some English-inspired choreography at BIDA last
night. Since I didn't have a dance with the figures I wanted, I whipped one
together on the drive home, tested it in the driveway, and debuted it last
night. Success!

Now the question, of course, is whether or not someone already wrote it!

-===-

Amble On East
Becket CCW

A1: Long Lines Forward & Back
      Ladies Chain Across (to Neighbor)
A2: Ladies Dosido 1x
      Neighbor Swing
B1: Give & Take, Gents draw Partner into 1/2 Poussette CCW
      With NEXT, Gypsy Star* 3/4 (Ladies backing up)
B2: Partner (Long) Swing

-===-

*Do we have a new name for this figure yet? I called it Gypsy Star in the
walkthrough once or twice before realizing I should maybe figure something
else out, and the phrase "Special Star" actually escaped my mouth, to the
absolute delight of some of the dancers.  During the dance itself, I just
called "Star."
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