[Callers] New Dance?

Maia McCormick maia.mcc at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 14:36:51 PDT 2017


Your dance doesn't look familiar to me (for whatever that's worth)--though
I agree with Dugan's point that experienced dancers will take fewer that 8
counts to do that pousette and fewer than 8 counts to turn the star 3/4
(probably a lot fewer!), so it will potentially be a very, very long swing.
If you care, you could potentially get around that by doing a walk-around
and swing to eat up that extra time. Or just leave it and let the dancers
sort it out!

Agreeing with Dugan yet again, I've been calling that figure a "facing
star", which seems to work well and be descriptive.

And if you're itching for a dance with pousettes and facing stars, I
premiered this one of Ryan Carollo's at YDW this weekend and folks seemed
to dig it:

*Trip to Saratoga** by Ryan Carollo* || improper

*A1:* half pousette w/ P (gents pull)
facing star 1¼ (gents fwd)

*A2:* P walk-around & swing

*B1:* half hey (gents by L), ladies ricochet
N swing

*B2:* long lines & gents roll N
half pousette w/ P (ladies lead)

Ladies be proactive to catch P's hand in B2. B2 pousette should be
leisurely or ppl arrive at A1 early.

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bill Olson via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Mac, Well "Gypsy Star" and "Gypsy Waves" are two other Ravitz dances that
> have the interwoven long wavy lines and the "Gypsy Star", not sure if there
> are more. Probably.. But as long as you brought it up, the problem I found
> that most dancers had with the figures was NOT the Gypsy Star but rather
> the woven waves which, to many, were a little too "intimate" for comfort..
> Just my observation from admittedly a pretty small sample..
>
>
> bill
>
>
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> *From:* Callers <callers-bounces at lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of Mac
> Mckeever via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 2, 2017 8:53 PM
> *To:* Dugan Murphy; callers
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Callers] New Dance?
>
> 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
>
>
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> *From:* Callers <callers-bounces at lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of
> Dugan Murphy via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 2, 2017 8:16 PM
> *To:* callers at lists.sharedweight.net
> *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.
>
> Dugan Murphy
> Portland, Maine
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> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:03:37 -0400
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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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