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On Writing Dances that have been Written:<br>
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Years ago our we danced Bill Cochran's:<br>
<i>Third Friday</i><br>
A1 Neighbor Balance & Swing<br>
A2 Down Hall 4 in Line, Turn as Couple, Return, Fold Line<br>
B1 Women Chan -- over & back<br>
B2 Partner Balance, Square Thru Two, Partner Balance, Square Thru
Two to next Neighbor<br>
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I loved the B2 move, but wanted a partner swing in the dance, so I
made the:<br>
<i>Second Third Friday</i><br>
Improper<br>
Erik Hoffman<br>
A1 Neighbor Balance & Swing<br>
A2 Men Allemande Left 1½; Partner Swing<br>
B1 Right & Left Thru Across the set; Women chain back<br>
B2 Partner Balance, Square Thru Two, Partner Balance, Square Thru
Two to next Neighbor. <br>
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And, I published it in my first book, Contra Comments.<br>
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Turns out Tony Parkes had the same idea, and he wrote:<br>
<i>Friday Night Fever</i><br>
with the only difference being the B2, where Tony's dance goes:<br>
B2 Partner Promenade; Women Chain<br>
-- Which I now like better. And, Tony wrote his dance prior to me<br>
Tony published it in one of his books (don't recall which)<br>
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Turns out Myrtle Wilhite also wrote and published this dance, the
same as my version, and called it <i>Balanced Out #2</i><br>
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In looking at composition dates, Tony's came first, mine second, and
Ms. Wilhite's third -- all in the late 80s or early 90s.<br>
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I'm pretty sure we all came out with this dance independently. Both
Tony and I attribute Bill Cochran for the basic Idea. Myrtle
doesn't, so, perhaps she came up with the dance independently.<br>
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But the point of this is, we choreographers are all bound to put
together some dance that someone else has also come up with. At this
point, it's great to have this list to check that a sequence is
original. It goes a long way to checking this. <br>
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~erik hoffman<br>
oakland, ca<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/12/2015 6:01 AM, Tom Hinds via
Callers wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1E19A3BD-26D8-41CF-B9D6-CC322A059920@earthlink.net"
type="cite">Keith,
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You probably missed my response. The Becket dance you refer to
was written by me and is called The Host. I'm embarrassed that I
took credit for The Host since it really isn't original. I just
never figured out that it was the same as Piece of Cake until
Martha mentioned it. So I'd say yes the dance you called is
Piece of Cake. In my mind the first one who writes the dance get
the credit and variations like this are not original compositions.
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T
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