<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=""><h2 style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead" style="color: rgb(46, 129, 213);" class="">Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Duple improper </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> October 24, 2000</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A1</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Women do-si-do (or gypsy or allemande right as well)</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Women swing (unisex style or Galway swing)</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A2</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Men allemande right 1 ½ </span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Men Galway swing* </span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">B1</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Balance and swing your partner</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">B2</span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Half a hey, women start right shoulder (Alternate: right and left through)</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Women chain across</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">* Men's Galway swing is done with a hold that provides some personal space. The men maintain the right allemande hold, and they cup the other man's right elbow with their left hand, this makes for a very strong and stable, tetrahedron-like hold and a powerful swing. This swing also appears in Smog Check.</span><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#3a434e" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" class="">This contra was written for a Halloween dance. The “Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead” riff from “The Wizard of Oz” is fun to throw into a tune if the band knows it. Originally written with the women’s role doing a unisex swing, but why should the men’s role have all the fun? You are at liberty to have both roles do the same swing. Women’s role allemande right is a little more odd from the position it is starting in though. </font></span><div class=""><font color="#3a434e" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#3a434e" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">One I wrote.<br class=""></span></font><div class=""><font color="#3a434e" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#3a434e" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2017, at 7:38 AM, Maia McCormick 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="">Devil's Backbone? Wizard's Walk? (Okay, I no longer have an objective sense of how Halloween-y this one is because it was the tradition at my school's contradance that we'd close out the Halloween contra with this one, with the band and the dancers competing to see who could go faster... it was a good time!)<div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Bob Peterson via Callers <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweightnet" target="_blank" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr class="">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 dir="auto" class="">There’s this no-swing dance, which I got from <a href="https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/dances/devils_dream.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cambridgefolk<wbr class="">.org.uk/contra/dances/devils_<wbr class="">dream.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class=""><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">The Devil's Dream</span></h1><h3 class=""><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Traditional</span></h3><p class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Improper Contra</span></p><h4 class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">A1</span></h4><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">1s face down and lead down the centre while the 2s face up and go up the outside</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">all turn alone and lead back to give neighbour nearest hand and half turn neighbour</span></li></ul><h4 class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">A2</span></h4><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">1s facing down the outside and 2s up the middle: lead up or down again</span><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">you promenade in the same direction both times</span></li></ul></li><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">all turn alone and lead back to give <strong class="">left</strong> hands to neighbour</span></li></ul><h4 class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">B1</span></h4><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">turn neighbour into a full ladies chain across</span></li></ul><h4 class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">B2</span></h4><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">half promenade neighbour across set</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">half right and left back</span></li></ul><hr class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">In CDM6 and 500 Zesty Contras</span><p class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Note that this dance has no swing; however it is probably the most popular contra in English dance clubs.</span></p><br class=""><div id="m_-5447707495194517723m_-831229419369578270AppleMailSignature" class=""><div class="">\Bob</div></div><div class=""><div class="m_-5447707495194517723h5"><div class=""><br class="">On Oct 12, 2017, at 09:16, Rich Sbardella via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr class="">t</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">Hello Friends,</span><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">I need some Halloween themed dances. Any suggestions?</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">Rich Sbardella</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">Stafford, CT</div><div class="m_-5447707495194517723m_-831229419369578270gmail-ajU m_-5447707495194517723m_-831229419369578270gmail-yj6qo" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.800000190734863px"></div></div>
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