<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jean,<div><br></div><div>The conversation you're looking for is archived at</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-April/date.html">http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-April/date.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-May/date.html">http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-May/date.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>The SharedWeight archives are still somewhat in disarray.</div><div>I'm sure Seth is just as bothered as anyone by it and is working</div><div>to find a solution. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, I can</div><div>find the URLs above by going to</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.sharedweight.net">http://www.sharedweight.net</a></div><div><br></div><div>then clicking "Callers" in the left column, "LIst Archives" on</div><div>resulting page, and then either of the links marked "Date". While</div><div>the main page for the callers' list archive</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/">http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/</a></div><div><br></div><div>currently only displays links for April and May of this year, it's</div><div>easy to guess how to modify the URLs listed at the beginning of</div><div>this message to look for archives from other months. (Searching,</div><div>alas, is still broken.)</div><div><br></div><div>I believe the specific video you're looking for is</div><div><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URKq4xSqDtc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URKq4xSqDtc</a></pre><div>referenced by Colin Hume on April 30. The dance shown is Kim's Game,</div></div><div>by Colin Hume. Colin wrote:</div><div><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">And the YouTube video is correct (though naturally the band aren't
playing the tune I wrote for it).</pre></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>The description in the video references Colin Hume's book</div><div>Dances With a Difference, Vol. 4. The dance is also described</div><div>in the 1999 and 2006 RPDLW syllabi (as I found thanks to</div><div>Michael Dyck's Contradance Index). The 2006 syllabus has this</div><div>note:</div><div><br></div><div><div> The author writes: “Kim Pankhurst challenged me to</div><div> write a longways dance where couples progressed</div><div> across the set rather than up and down. So some</div><div> couples progress the normal way; others just go </div><div> across and back. I’ve had people complain that they</div><div> didn’t progress, even though I had explained this—</div><div> one man was so annoyed that he walked out of the</div><div> dance! But men don’t complain that they don’t</div><div> progress in a square. You’re dancing with the same</div><div> partner and a different neighbor each time—does it</div><div> really matter which piece of floor you’re on?”</div><div><br></div></div><div>The dance description says that the dance is for "two</div><div>side-by-side [contra] sets that interact in the B part".</div><div>You might wonder what would happen if you tried to do it</div><div>with three of more sets interacting. (It's easy enough</div><div>to change the arch and dive figure in the B1 into an</div><div>ordinary pass through, so that people in the middle sets</div><div>don't have to identify "inside" and "outside" couples.)</div><div>If I've analyzed the choreography correctly, as the number</div><div>of sets increases, there will be more and more dancers who</div><div>not only stay near the same part of the floor, but also</div><div>nteract repeatedly with the same neighbors. Specifically,</div><div>with three sets, there will be dancers who interact with</div><div>familiar neighbors and new neighbors in alternate rounds.</div><div>With four or more sets there start to be some dancers who</div><div>interact with just two different neighbors over and over.</div><div><br></div><div>--Jim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On May 19, 2015, at 10:28 AM, jean francis via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432056225849_6749" dir="ltr"> I thought I'd saved a fairly recent discussion on 'transgressive contras'...there was one posting that had a link to a video of 2 contra lines where the 1's bounced back and forth from line to line in subsequent verses. Could some kind soul who did save that please email me the link and any relevant discussion they saved at <a href="mailto:catherineaura@yahoo.com">catherineaura@yahoo.com</a>. Sadly I do not know how to access any archives...tried googling 'transgressive contra shared weight' and just brought up a long discussion from 2006</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432056225849_6755" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432056225849_6756" dir="ltr">Many thanks!</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Callers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net">Callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a><br>http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>