<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello all,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm sharing a link to a pod of dances I recently wrote:<br><a href="http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/">http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/</a><br>rather than putting all 5 and the descriptions up here. I'll put one at the bottom.<br><br>I
was at the English Country Dance in Brattleboro before the Dawn Dance,
and Nikki Herbst called a dance with a dolphin hey; and it was such fun I
decided to write contra dances with it. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For
those of you (like recently me) not familiar with a dolphin hey, it's 4
people doing a hey for 3; with the 1s acting as a unit and trading
leads (like a school of fish) when the reach either end and loop back
in. For instance, at 1:32 in this lovely video of Sapphire Sea:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8LyExynvA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8LyExynvA</a><br clear="all"></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I don't have video of the contra dances (although I have called a couple of them at contras and they've worked).</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Also, if you just search Dolphin Hey on google, you find:</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="http://images.8tracks.com/cover/i/000/353/076/qzrlhgo2_500-5519.jpg?rect=73,0,480,480&q=98&fm=jpg&fit=max" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" height="175" width="175"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Which, given how much time I've spent navel gazing about the move, I admit to thinking is hilarious. </div><br>My favorite <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">(so far) of the 5 I've written is below. I'm curious if anyone else has already ported this move from ECD into contra. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">Enjoy:</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>Kinematic Dolphin Vorticity<br>Luke Donforth<br>Type: Contra<br>Formation: Duple-Improper<br><br>A1 -----------<br>(8) Long lines, forward and back<br>(8) 2s hand cast the 1s down through the middle to a line of 4<br>1s turn to face lady 2<br>A2 -----------<br>(16) Dolphin hey for 3, 1s (gent starting in lead) pass lady 2 by left<br>7 changes, until at gents home side with partner second time<br>B1 -----------<br>(16) Partner gypsy and swing<br>B2 -----------<br>(6) Circle Left 3/4<br>(10) Swing neighbor<br><br>Notes:
The dancers will probably get to the partner gypsy a little early. They
can get a little more gypsy, or swoop wideley on the hey.<br><br>Other Notes: The title comes from Carol Ormand’s Kinematic Vorticity, which has the same A1 and B2. </div><br>-- <br></div>Luke Donforth<br></div><a href="mailto:calling.luke@gmail.com">calling.luke@gmail.com</a><br><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Luke.Donev@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div>
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