[Callers] Contra Corners Dance

[Ric Goldman - Letsdance]

I also came up with a version called "Walpole Condo", which retained the
original double-contra-corners figure.   Despite the double figure, it's
actually very forgiving.  The beauty is that no matter what happens during
the 4 corners, as long as the middles get home, it all works (and even if
they don't).

Here's the instructions and a simple vid at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQoKOQCIo0.

Walpole Condo - Ric Goldman, Sicilian 3x3 (based on the ECD "Walpole
Cottage" by Pat Shaw)
A1         1-4     Lines-of-3 go fwd & back
              5-8     Opposites do-si-do
A2+B1  1-16   Middles turn double contra corners * (Middle R, 1st crnr L,
middles R, 2nd crnr L, middles R, 3rd crnr L, middles R 4th crnr L)
                         (all end home)
B2         1-4     All Circle 6 L half-way
              5-8    Original 3s basket swing or circle L, end facing
original direction for new neighbors.
                        (the swing can end with anyone as the new middle -
or keep the same person - the chaos is part of the fun).

 the "4 corners of the apocalypse" for each middle are: 1) R diagonal
opposite, 2) L diagonal opposite, 3) immediate L in line, 4) immediate R in
line (basically working CCW around the set). 

Cheers,
Ric Goldman
letsdance at rgoldman.org
650-906-8707

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Strangely enough, I forgot about Wallpole Dollhouse. Thanks, Jim for
reminding me of it.

It can, of course, be a contra line or a Sicilian circle.

Melanie's dance is a little simpler, better to use on newish dancers.

I like them both, and, they are more forgiving--as a progressive dance--than
any of the others mentioned so far.

~Erik Hoffman


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Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Corners Dance

A nice easy dance for introducing Contra Corners is "Down by the Riverside"
by Melanie Axel-Lute:

     http://www.maxellute.net/down.html

The dance is a progressive 3-face-3, ending with a basket swing in B2 after
which dancer open out with anyone in the middle, facing a new threesome.
Like Erik Hoffman's "Walpole Dollhouse",

 
http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2013-May/00
6143.html

you can think of it as a much simplified version of Pat Shaw's "Walpole
Cottage".

On account of the progression, dancers get to lead the contra corners figure
with a succession of different opposite active (center) dancers.  Thus,
dancers who don't quite understand the figure are likely eventually to run
into counterparts who can send guide them in the correct direction.  By
contrast in a triplet, triple-minor, or duple-minor setting, a confused
dancer may be asked to lead contra corners with the same equally-confused
partner time after time.

--Jim

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