<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve also written a dance with this down the hall figure in it. I like to call it early in the evening since it’s very connected and has “rest” time for each couple. I haven’t run it through the Shared Weight gauntlet to see if anyone else has written it. Please let me know if it’s already out there.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class=""><b class="">Pivot the Line</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">by Jacqui Grennan, 5/1/2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">Contra/Improper/Easy</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77); min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">A1 -----------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">Four steps down the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">Four more steps down the hall, walking backwards</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">Four steps up the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">Four more steps up the hall, walking backwards. Bend the line</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">A2 -----------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">(16) 2’s gypsy RIGHT/swing, face up to same N’s</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">B1 -----------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">(16) Same N B&Sw</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">B2 -----------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">(8) 1’s DSD across set</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(81, 81, 77);" class="">(8) 1’s P Sw (2’s get ready for DTH, 1’s end the swing facing down between new neighbors).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks to Linda, Mac, and Jonathan for their responses. So far for dances featuring "Dublin Bay" variants, i have: <br class=""><br class="">contra variants of the figure, in best-guess chronological order: <br class="">Leaving Home - Al Olson<br class="">Jim's Reel - Steve Schnur <br class="">Handsome Young Maids - Sue Rosen<br class="">Please Don't Call Me Surely - Lynn Ackerson (Lynn says this is very similar to Olson's dance)<br class="">Crossing the Streams - Nicholas Rockstroh <br class=""><br class="">figure exactly as it appears in Dublin Bay:<br class="">Doublin' Back - Erna-Lynne Bogue<br class=""><br class="">The reason for my question around the move's history is that i've written a new dance featuring it, and was curious who first imported it from ECD to contra. So far i've gotten works-on-paper nods from a couple fellow choreographers, and a previous version of this dance was successfully tested. Might as well put it out there, as i'm pretty sure it hasn't been written before. <br class=""><br class="">Here 'tis:<br class=""><br class=""><p class="gmail-p1">Belfast Bay (becket R) <br class=""><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p><p class="gmail-p1">from improper: circle left three and swing partner to end facing UP the hall: <br class=""><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p><p class="gmail-p1">A1. in lines of four, reverse "Dublin Bay" variant: <br class=""></p><div class=""><span class="gmail-s1"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span"></span> take four steps backwards, turn toward partner to face down, take four steps forward; </span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span"></span> repeat, returning up the hall, and bend the line to a ring</span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">A2. Ring balance, ladies draw gents over to </span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span"></span> N1 neighbor swing</span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">B1. Long lines forward & back </span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span"></span> N2 neighbor swing</span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">B2. Ring balance, ladies draw gents over to </span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span"></span> Partner swing</span></p><p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">Here, the "Dublin Bay" figure (as it’s more commonly seen in contra, a modified “down the hall”) has been inverted to make the starting formation a line of four facing up - intended for those times a caller wants all dancers facing the stage. The sequence’s overall design was driven by the intention to facilitate band introductions before a break or goodbyes before a final waltz, with dancers beside their partner. As a last dance before the break, the A1 figure can be walked without “bend to a ring,” and voila! Dancers are in lines of four facing up ready for announcements; the rest is simple enough to run no-walk-through. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1">Compact variation! Start instead with dancers facing DOWN the hall and make A1 the original “Dublin Bay” figure: lines of four facing down take four steps backwards (toward the stage), four steps forwards; turn alone to face up, and repeat. Voila! Lines of four facing up. <br class=""><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p><p class="gmail-p1">Dancers waiting out at the ends should join in the long lines. <br class=""><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>In honor of Chrissy Fowler and the Belfast Flying Shoes dance in Belfast, Maine. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Linda Leslie <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:laleslierjg@comcast.net" target="_blank" class="">laleslierjg@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Al Olson used the move in his dance “Leaving Home”. It was published in <u class="">Give & Take</u> by Larry Jennings in 2004. Larry spent a number of years putting this book together, so the dance was written well before this. I did not find the dance in <u class="">Zesty Contras</u>, Larry’s fist book, published in 1988; but this might mean that Larry did not have space to include it, rather than it had not been written yet. If I were of a betting nature…..I would bet that the dance was from the 1980’s, maybe 1990’s. <div class="">Linda</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="">On Jan 16, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr class="">net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-670897645007479655Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class=""><br class="">Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a modified "lines of four down the hall." <br class=""><br class="">I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the hall. <br class=""><br class="">I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out there know what the first contra to use this figure is? <br class=""></span><br class="">Tavi</div></div></div>
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