[Callers] New Dance?

Robert Green bobgreen at swbell.net
Mon Oct 2 18:13:51 PDT 2017


I put it in an English country dance to "Lisa, Lisa"' , a Tango vals by Larry Unger. The dance is A Lean Tango.

Easy enough to teach as " Hands across star, Ladies ( or gents) backing up.)

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> On Oct 2, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Dugan Murphy via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Bill,
> 
> I'm pretty sure Cary Ravitz first developed the figure we call "gypsy star.."  I know three of his dances which use the figure.  "Woven Waves" and "Gypsy Star" were both written in May 1999.  "Gypsy Waves" was written in 2013.
> 
> I haven't seen it in many other dances.  Ryan Smith and I helped Stacey Lang write a dance with the figure called "The Fault in Our Stars."  See http://www.twirlyshirts.com/dances/by-ryan/the-fault-in-our-stars/
> 
> Dugan Murphy
> Portland, Maine
> dugan at duganmurphy.com
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>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Bill Olson <callbill at hotmail.com> 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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