<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-msgHead" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-darkgray m_-3546220622802302477gmail-font13" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-sender m_-3546220622802302477gmail-pipe" style="margin-right:0.5em;border-right:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);padding-right:0.8em"><span style="outline:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none"><span>><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=callers@lists.sharedweight.net&q=from:%22Yoyo+Zhou%22" rel="nofollow" style="outline:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Yoyo Zhou</a></span></span></span><span> </span><span class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-date"><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=callers@lists.sharedweight.net&q=date:20130312" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT)</a></span></p></div><div class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-msgBody" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:1em;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;margin:0px">>Thanks, all. I've found that the first dance (? 1), as I noted it, isn't in
>any of your collections, because it doesn't work:</pre></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>This is an old thread, but I was searching for an easy introduction to an alle/orbit figure and landed on it.<div><br></div><div>I have made a fix to Yoyo's original transcription that, as he described, resulted in couples swapping sides and, my guess, cycling back and forth within one place of the starting point forever!</div><div><br></div><div>The fixed dance is as follows and has a CCW progression. I swapped a LL for the R/L and juggled a figure here or there in A. the only hiccup is the slight grinding of gears (i.e. reverse of momentum) for the ladies transitioning from a swing to a chain (but not a biggie and it occurs often in the repertoire).</div><div><br></div><div>
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<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've discovered this is very similar to Cary Ravitz's "Amy's Harmonium" leading me to think that Yoyo might have had that dance in mind.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://danceminder.com/dance/show/amysha" target="_blank">https://danceminder.com/dance/<wbr>show/amysha</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><table class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movements" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin:8.40625px;width:834px;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-style:solid none none solid;border-width:1px;padding:3px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movements-body"><tr class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement" id="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement1025" style="vertical-align:middle"><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm" style="width:21px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px"><b style="font-weight:bold">A1</b></td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fluidcell" style="width:790px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px">LLFB (partners roll away w/half sashay on the way back)<br>Gents allemande right 1 3/4</td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm m_-3546220622802302477gmail-barscell" style="width:20px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px;text-align:right">8</td></tr><tr class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement" id="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement1026" style="vertical-align:middle"><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm" style="width:21px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px"><b style="font-weight:bold">A2</b></td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fluidcell" style="width:790px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px">Neighbor balance and swing</td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm m_-3546220622802302477gmail-barscell" style="width:20px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px;text-align:right">8</td></tr><tr class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement" id="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement1027" style="vertical-align:middle"><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm" style="width:21px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px"><b style="font-weight:bold">B1</b></td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fluidcell" style="width:790px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px">Ladies chain across<br>Circle left 3/4, Pass thru (up/down) to new couple</td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm m_-3546220622802302477gmail-barscell" style="width:20px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px;text-align:right">8</td></tr><tr class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement" id="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement1028" style="vertical-align:middle"><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fixedcellsm" style="width:21px;min-width:20px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px"><b style="font-weight:bold">B2</b></td><td class="m_-3546220622802302477gmail-movement-item m_-3546220622802302477gmail-fluidcell" style="width:790px;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:1px">Ladies alle lt 1x while Gents orbit 1/2 CW(left)<br>Partner swing</td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div>I like Cary's better for flow (his balance/no balance swings are a better fit) BUT the roll-away is an extra thing to throw off novices. On the other hand, there's no reason that, in the first version, partners couldn't flow right into a 16 beat swing (or dancers' choice), foregoing the balance.</div></div>
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