Hi,
I am preparing to call Nathaniel Jacks Its A Pirates Life for Me
tonight. The dance is below. I am wondering why at the end of the B2 the
allemande with your neighbor is a second allemande right. Since the women
already have their right hands busy with their own allemande right it would
seem easier for them to do an allemande LEFT with their neighbor, and since
the next move is a balance with your new neighbor it would seem easier for
all to be coming out of that allemande left, rather than out of an allemande
right. Do I have this part of the dance wrong?
The dance notation is followed by my understanding of some of the other
parts as well. If you have time take a look. I would love your comments on
this too. My main concern at this point however is with that second
allemande right. It seems like it should be an allemande left.
Its A Pirates Life For Me - teaching
Nathaniel Jack - duple improper
Dance
A1 Neighbor Balance and Swing
A2 Pass thru to a wave (4)
Bal the wave (4)
Slide right (men 2 places) (4)
Men Allemande Left (once) (4)
B1 Partner Balance and Swing.
B2 Women Allemande Right once and a half around (8)
Neighbor Allemande Right ( 1 ¾ ) to New Neighbors (8)
Teaching I have abbreviated this
A1
1. Neighbor BALANCE AND SWING
2. End facing across
A2
1. PASS THRU TO A WAVE ACROSS
* Start to walk straight across the set, passing right shoulders with
your partner, putting the women in the middle
* As the women pass each other take left hands and turn ¼ so W1 faces
up and W2 faces down the set
* Men continue to the ends and join that wavy line
* M1 face up, M2 face down
* You are in a wavy line across the set with the women in the middle
holding left in left, and the men across the set from where they started
holding right hands with the women
2. BALANCE THE WAVE
3. SLIDE RIGHT
* Without turning around SLIDE to your RIGHT, like sliding doors, as
in Rory OMore
* Men Pass 2 people and end left in left
4. MEN ALLEMANDE LEFT (1) (IN 4!!!) this is zippy
B1
1. PARTNER BALANCE AND SWING
End that swing facing across the set.
B2
1. WOMEN ALLEMANDE RIGHT, each other, (1 ½ ) to your neighbor
2. NEIGHBORS ALLEMANDE also by the RIGHT (1 ¾ ) to New Neighbors
3. Ready to Balance and Swing with your New Neighbors, when the dance
continues
Rickey,
I have never tried the B2 you offered, as I too thought it might be awkward.
Fortunately, Lisa Greenleaf offered what she said was the original B2 on
this list a few months ago:
Women Do-si-do 1.5 to face current neighbor,
Gypsy neighbor right 1+ to progress to new neighbor.
I've found that to be pretty easy to teach and to dance.
The B2 with two right-hand allemandes might indeed be fun, but I expect you
would have to mindful that there will be dancers thinking "this is wrong."
Which brings up the whole issue of fun ways to project confidence that "yes,
this is how it goes" or even "here's the fun part."
Jerome
On Feb 4, 2008 11:00 AM, <callers-request(a)sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> From: "Rickey" <holt.e(a)comcast.net>
>
> The dance notation is followed by my understanding of some of the other
> parts as well. If you have time take a look. I would love your comments
> on
> this too. My main concern at this point however is with that second
> allemande right. It seems like it should be an allemande left.
>
> It?s A Pirates? Life For Me - teaching
>
> Nathaniel Jack - duple improper
>
> Dance
>
> A1 Neighbor Balance and Swing
>
> A2 Pass thru to a wave (4)
>
> Bal the wave (4)
>
> Slide right (men 2 places) (4)
>
> Men Allemande Left (once) (4)
>
> B1 Partner Balance and Swing.
>
> B2 Women Allemande Right once and a half around (8)
>
> Neighbor Allemande Right ( 1 ? ) to New Neighbors (8)
>
>
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