<div dir="ltr">I really like your description of "women reach forward to form a wave of women". If you state what hand you're taking with the person in your H4 (as you do here) that makes it even clearer (and means that if someone doesn't actually do the loop to take their neighbor or partner's place, it'll still work. <div><br></div><div>The dance is not one of mine. It's actually a Dean Snipes dance. I'm finishing up editing the collection of his dances that I'm trying to put together. Here's the rest of the dance for those that might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Oh Yea! – Dean Snipes Improper</div><div>Start in long waves, gents face out ladies face in</div><div>A1 Balance Wave</div><div>½ Circulate (Gents Loop, ladies reach forward RH to N Lady) to a long wave of ladies</div><div>Balance Wave of Ladies</div><div>½ Circulate (ladies forward and face in, gents reach forward RH to N Gent) to a long wave of gents</div><div><br></div><div>A2 Balance Wave of Gents</div><div>Gents step forward – N Sw</div><div>B1 Gents Alle L 1½</div><div>P Sw</div><div>B2 Take hands in a Ring – Balance Ring, petronella twirl to the right</div><div>N Alle L 1½ to a long wave – gents face out, ladies face in</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:10 PM Bill Olson <<a href="mailto:callbill@hotmail.com">callbill@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Hi Jack and all, A little off topic, but... Your dance made me remember a dance I wrote back in 2002, "Do Make Waves". here's from my web site: </p>
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<p><em> A duple improper contra by Bill Olson </em></p>
<p><em> <b>A1:</b> Star R x 1 to long waves (Right Hand to N, L to previous N. Women are facing in, Men out))(8), Bal Wave(4) (women reach forward to form a wave of women down the center of set while men loop around to right, taking Neighbor's position,
facing in), Bal the wave (of Women)(4)* </em></p>
<p><em> <b> A2:</b> Women reach forward and form a long wave (Right Hand to Partner, L to shadow, W face out) Bal Wave (4) and Swing Partner (12)
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<p><em> <b>B1:</b> Circle L 3/4 Sw N (16) </em></p>
<p><em> <b>B2:</b> Circl L (8), (with same Neighbors) Star L (8) (Look for new N in next Star)
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<p><em><b>Notes: </b>*The 3 balances are all done consecutively, that is to say: "balance,2,3,4,balance2,3,4,balance,2,3,4! Needless to say there is little time between balances for the women to drop hands and pick up new ones, and it helps if the balances
are more "forward and back" rather than "right and left" so there is some "forward propulsion" going on after each balance! In reality the second and third balances are actually started (feet hit the floor) while the hand change is being made. Here's why I
wrote this dance. Every year at NEFFA (New England Folk Festival in Natick, MA), callers are reminded that the dance floors are very crowded and to pay attention NOT to call dances that require a lot of room between sets (since there ISN'T any). I figured
I would write a dance that REQUIRED that there be very little room between sets, and this is IT!! My announcement to some Boston area callers of my intention met with great skepticism, but I always DO like to make waves! and the dance works!! Written April
15, 2002.</em></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">This dance has three wave balances, the first two are the same as yours I think, i.e. Balance wave (Men out Women in etc) along the long lines, balance wave of women down the center, BUT no time in between.. (the
notes as to "why" heh heh) I called this dance ONE TIME at NEFFA and it worked fine BUT comments after were mostly that it was VERY zesty for the women..
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I am assuming the first wave in A1 is along the long lines.. If so, 4 steps is a LOT of steps to go a pretty short distance.. Maybe I am reading this wrong, in which case I offer the dance as something similar
and *different*.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">You might note that when I wrote the dance I had no words "like circulate the wave" in my vocabulary, so I probably just called it what it was, "gents loop, women walk forward" or something like that.. Makes for
nice "toung twisters" when actually calling the dance!!</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">bill (in Black Fly infested Maine)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"></font></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-6674785198694548400divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Callers <<a href="mailto:callers-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> on behalf of Jack Mitchell via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Callers] Partial circulate the wave?</font></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-6674785198694548400divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<div dir="ltr">What would you call a circulate like this? Would it be a partial circulate? Or, in the interest of not adding any more terminology, since only half of the people are going to end up in a wave after each one, would it be better to just say "ladies
take 4 steps forward to a long wave of ladies, gents face in", etc?
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Circulate </span><span style="font-size:10pt">(Gents Loop, ladies take 4 steps forward)</span><span style="font-size:16pt"> to a long wave of ladies<br>
Balance Wave</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> of Ladies</span><span style="font-size:16pt"><br>
Circulate </span><span style="font-size:10pt">(ladies walk forward and face in, gents take 4 steps forward)
</span><span style="font-size:16pt">to a long wave of gents</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10pt">of Gents<br>
Gents step forward – </span><span style="font-size:16pt">N Sw</span></p>
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