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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Rachel,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> Some of the moves that have been mentioned are actually English country dance moves that have been used in squares.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Grand Square:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>1648: <a href="http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/sca/lansdowne.html">http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/sca/lansdowne.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And a few years later in Playford’s Hunsdon House. This is, of course, a Square Dance, and, yes, they were called Square Dances back then!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Right Hand High, Left Hand Low:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is the third figure of Pepper’s Black (1650): <a href="http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play0944.htm">http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play0944.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Square Through N:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is “N Changes”, a very common figure from the 17th century onwards. MWSD’s contribution was to give it a new name and specify that when that name is used the dancers must NOT turn after the last change, finishing back to back with the last person you passed (as happens in many country dances). The term ”Square Through” is often misused in contra dancing, as there are many contra dances with “Square Through” where you turn after the last change. The term “N Changes” would be better used in those circumstances. But people use words to mean what they want them to mean, so I doubt we will ever get any standardisation on that! :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Some other “square dance” figures come from Appalachian Big Set. Cecil Sharp published these dances as Running Set (a name he made up) and he says, “The Running Set is most effective when the number of couples is limited to four couples, although, if certain Figures by omitted, that number may be exceeded.” Because of this decision by Sharp to publish Running Set as dances for four couples in a circle, i.e. a square dance, it has come to be believed that these are square dances and therefore the figures are square dance figures. Sharp also believed that these dances were ”the sole survival of a type of Country-dance which, in order of development, preceded the Playford dance”. So, many of the figures did not really originate in square dancing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Anyway, enough about history. Here are some dances that probably meet your criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Box Circulate:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Chris Page’s Chinese New Year<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>My Irish New Year – with a different ending: <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/IrishNewYear.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/IrishNewYear.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pass the Ocean, Extend, Swing Through:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Balancing Act: <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/BalancingAct.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/BalancingAct.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Figures from the traditional English Square Dance Cumberland Square Eight:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cumberland Contra: <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/CumberlandContra.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/CumberlandContra.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Mountain Dosido and Georgia Rang Tang:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>DosiWhat? <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/DosiWhat.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/DosiWhat.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Flutterwheel:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>FlutterRing: <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/FlutterRing.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/FlutterRing.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Flutterwheel and Sweep a Quarter:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hothfield Hey: <a href="http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/HothfieldHey.html">http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/HothfieldHey.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Note: many of my dances are designed for beginners or for dancers in England who don’t demand multiple swings in every dance, so there may not be enough swings for you in some of the dances above.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> I hope that helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Happy dancing, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> John <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John Sweeney, Dancer, England john@modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events & DVDs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Callers <callers-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rachel Shapiro via Callers<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 August 2018 20:51<br><b>To:</b> callers@lists.sharedweight.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Callers] Contras with square dance figures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm in search of contras that have borrowed interesting figures from traditional and modern western square dances. Do you have any favorites you're willing to share? I've got Rang Tang Contra and some dances with Dixie Twirls. Lots with Box the Gnat and Swat the Flea. Any others you love?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rachel Shapiro Wallace<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>