<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">thanks all, for your input. I'm off to call one of these dances...stay tuned!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Mary "24"<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass ... it's about learning to dance in the rain!” ~ Unknown</div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br>Vallimont's Silver Hammer came out in May of 2016. The dance came out of a conversation with the talented musician Julie Vallimont about closing sets; and how callers like dances that end with swings but bands often have something that builds to a big hit at the A to B transition in the music. I was trying to put a balance at the top of the B1 & B2, and ending with a partner swing. Yes, the Beatles reference is deliberate. <br><br>The dance that I call Vallimont's Silver Hammer is<br><br></div><div><b>Vallimont's Silver Hammer<br></b><div><i>by Luke Donforth</i></div><div>Becket<br>A1<br>Circle Left<br>Neighbor Swing<br>A2<br>Promenade across with neighbor<br>Ladies chain to partner<br>B1 <br>Right to neighbor, balance and pull by; pull by partner left<br>shadow DSD 1x<br>B2<br>Partner Balance and Swing<br>slide left <br><br>Note, I'd originally posited another dance as Vallimont's Silver Hammer; but it turned out that Bob Isaacs had already written and named that one; so I wrote Julie a different one. That dance:<br><br></div><div><b>Return 2 Sender<br></b><i>by Bob Isaacs<br></i>Becket<br>A1<br>Circle left 3/4<br>Neighbor swing<br>A2<br>Gents start hey for 4 by left<br>B1<br>Right to neighbor (women back to back in middle), balance and box gnat<br>Pull by right, women allemande left 1 1/2<br>B2<br>Partner balance and swing<br>Slide left<br><br></div><div>So Mary Collins, please make sure that the dance you have isn't actually Bob's with a different name; since I may have caused some confusion over the names back then. </div><div><br></div><div>Both my dance and Chris Weiler's Vallimont's Steamboat pay homage to the same Julie Vallimont (I don't know how many there are out there, but it's the same one). His happens to have a long lines at the top of B1 (which Julie also considers acceptable for closing sets) and ends with a partner swing. Some day we may put together a whole set of Vallimont :-)</div></div><div><br></div><div>And what I've gotten from this thread is I've got to get around to making a better website for listing my dances. My Mad Robin blog is fun for discussion, but terrible for finding things. </div><div><br></div><div>Happy Dancing!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Don Heinold via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157"><span>Hi Friends,</span></div><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157"><span id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30324">"Vallimont's Steamboat" is a fine dance and was written by Chris Weiler and you can find it on his site here..</span></div><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157" dir="ltr"><span id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30352"><a href="http://caller.chrisweiler.ws/dances.htm#vallimonts" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30351" target="_blank">http://caller.chrisweiler.ws/d<wbr>ances.htm#vallimonts</a><br></span></div><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30157" dir="ltr">Don Heinold, RI Caller</div><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820qtdSeparateBR" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30158"><br><br></div><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yahoo_quoted" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30162" style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30161"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30160"> <div dir="ltr" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30159"> <font id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30163" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30447" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Angela DeCarlis via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr>t</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> frannie <<a href="mailto:dancingfrannie@gmail.com" target="_blank">dancingfrannie@gmail.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> callers <<a href="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">Callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr>t</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:33 PM<br> <b id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30489"><span style="font-weight:bold" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30488">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Callers] Vallimont's Silver Hammer<br> </font> </div> <div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820y_msg_container" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30166"><br><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409"><div id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30165"><span><div dir="ltr" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509626327886_30164">Vallimont's Steamboat is the dance written for musician Julie Vallimont, to the tune Vladimir's Steamboat. I imagine this has something to do with it, but of course Luke will be chiming in before long with the *actual* story, I'm sure.</div></span><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409yqt5061813940" id="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409yqtfd59479"><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_quote"><span>On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:06 PM, frannie via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr>t</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"></span><blockquote class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Luke Donforth</div><span><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409h5">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Mary Collins via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight. net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_3830435942428155843m_-845318869543528820yiv3529365409h5"><div>Have the dance, not the author....<div><br clear="none"></div><div>And...any anecdotal information.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks all!!</div></div>
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