[Callers] New Dance?

Mon Oct 2 15:48:19 PDT 2017

I'm pretty happy with the choreography, generally.  I think adding a Gents'
chain would serve to make the dance less accessible, and that wasn't my
goal in writing it.

I recently picked up a dance by Don Veino that has an English figure in it,
too. I think the figure is called Hole in the Wall? That's another figure
I'd love to see plopped into more contra choreography for easy/intermediate
dances!

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby <adeislauby at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you find experienced folks do those moves faster, you could swap the
> ladies chain/dosido for a gents chain and do si do and make the facing star
> 1 1/4. I think that would make it clockwise becket.  Amble on west?
>
> Thanks for working to fix that problem. I often wish my box had dances
> with a pousette, or a ricochet, or a mad robin that had no other non-survey
> figure and also had some built in recovery time.
>
> Alex
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Angela DeCarlis via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks all! I have a video uploading to YouTube now of the dance's debut
> from last night, I'll post it here when it's done. You'll see that the
> dancers are using up the music for both the poussette and the star, at
> least in this crowd. Maybe it would be different for other (more advanced?)
> crowds, but I encouraged everyone to take their time, and it seemed to work
> out pretty well!
>
> While I like the dance of Ryan's, Maia, a big part of why I wrote this
> dance was because I was struggling to find a contra dance that included a
> pousette and *didn't* included any challenging figures (mad robins,
> ricochet hey, etc). I thought about including a walk-around before the
> partner swing, but the connection is already there, so I decided to just go
> old-school and let the dancers swing their partners for the full 16 beats.
>
> Angela
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Maia McCormick via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Dugan Murphy
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>>> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:03:37 -0400
>>> From: Angela DeCarlis <aedecarlis at gmail.com>
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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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