Re: 80 beat crooked tune:
You could fit the three part version of Ragtime Annie to it, but just do the C part once without a repeat.
You could do the full Billy Wilson, from the Portland Collection #2 if you don't know it. It would work perfectly!
Martha
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> From: squash(a)ufl.edu (Jonathan LF King)
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> Subject: [Callers] Seeking on 80 beat "crooked" tune
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> Folks
>
> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:33:03 -0800
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King <squash(a)ufl.edu> wrote:
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>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is extra
> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last second
> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
> Yoyo Zhou
>
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> When I call this dance - I just ask just ask the band if they have a 5 part tune.? Some do - dome don't
>
> If they don't - I just use a 4 part tune and know the dance will not start at the A1 each time - hasn't caused any problems
>
> You can call this as a 4 part dance if you leave out the Rory O More - but it isn't near as much fun
>
> Mac McKeever
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> Folks
>
> ? I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).?
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats).? Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> ? ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing.? Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip?? Ta.
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> The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
> is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
> This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
> band :).
>
>
> Suzanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yoyo Zhou
>> Sent: Feb 14, 2013 11:33 PM
>> To: Caller's discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] Seeking on 80 beat "crooked" tune
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>>
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>>> called version:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>>
>>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
> extra
>> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>>
>> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
> second
>> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>>
>> Yoyo Zhou
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The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
band :).
Suzanne
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>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>
>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
extra
>long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
>The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
second
>of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
>Yoyo Zhou
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Folks
I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
called version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
Thanks for all the ideas re the easy 'leaving the minor' set dances!
I like the idea of dances where the dancers realize/feel that they are
leaving the set but yet, they are well supported and experience success.
Moon and Star Contra sounds as though it would fit into that category well.
Sneak Peak/Preview sounds cool too as it's that introduction and then
finding those folks again. Interesting how Another Nice Combination kept
on coming up... :)
I'll have to test these and the others at one of our monthly callers
gatherings.
Thanks so much for the help!
:) Emily
Hi Folks,
I was wondering if anyone had relatively 'easy on the brain' 'out of your
minor set' dances???
Here in Ottawa (Ontario), dancers aren't used to leaving their minor
set/partner to go dance with other. I'd like to try a few really great
dances with this feature but they need to have a high success rate for a
room of folks not used to this feature of some contras.
Any ideas and if so, why did you choose that dance????
Much thanks!
Emily Addison
I like "Sneak Preview," by Claudio Buchwald
Improper
A1: Neighbor do si do 1 1/2x to next neighbor
Gypsy left once (I make it an allemande sometimes)
A2: Original neighbor, balance and swing
B1: Circle left 3/4x
Partner swing
B2: Ladies chain across
Star left and on to the next
I like it because there's really only one unusual part and if you have a
crowd of less experienced dancers, there's that nice re-orienting neighbor
balance and swing, which gives everyone 16 counts to get their heads
straight.
I also like to start by asking people to identify their next neighbor and
by reminding folks out on the end that they have to stay on their toes and
be ready to be someone's "next neighbor."
Good luck!
Meg (Chicago)
Jacob said: "See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYLDM1w6NE for a
fascinating variant".
Hmmm... "variant"?
The way they are dancing in that video is the way it has been done at
every dance, barn dance and ceilidh that I have been to in England for
the last 50 years.
See
http://www.ceilidhcalling.co.uk/danceviewpage.php?view=1&id=5&POSTROUTIN
GMARKER=dancelist_DANCES
Jacob said "the balances had morphed into "kick-jumps".
Ummm... No... they have been kick-jumps for at least 50 years. The term
"balance" at a ceilidh in England usually means kick-jumps!
Americans used to do that balance sometimes as well. See "50 Variations
of the Balance":
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/dlp/northernjunket/pages/NJv05/NJv05-01/NJv.05.
01.p13.htm
- variation number 4!
"Balance" is not a well-defined term!
:-)
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
Hi, all--
I don't have the lore or the archives to answer Tom or Michael, but here's
another spur-of-the-moment composition that seems very likely to have been
created earlier and elsewhere. I had just run out of suitable triplets and
I wanted to teach country corners so in desperation I tried this:
Triplet, all proper
A1: #1 couple balance, cross over, go below #2, half-figure eight up
through #2 to end proper between #2 and #3.
A2: #1 turn country corners with the usual suspects.
B1: #1 gypsy and swing, end facing up.
B2: #1 cast around #2 to go down the outside to bottom while #2 and #3 move
up; lines of three go forward and back.
Seemed to work very well for a mixed-age group of beginners (maybe because
the #1s are so much busier than everyone else?)--if it's a known sequence
I'd like to give credit where credit is due. Also interested in any close
resemblances that people like.
Chip Hedler
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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:06:54 -0500
> From: Tom Hinds <twhinds(a)earthlink.net>
> To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
> Subject: [Callers] is this dance new?
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> I just wrote a dance and wanted to know if it's unique. I'm pretty
> sure the A1 is borrowed from another dance.
>
>
> D-imp
> A1 Circle left. Mad Robin (face partner and do-si-do neighbor).
>
> A2 Hey, women pass left shoulders
>
> B1 Women pass left shoulders and swing partner
>
> B2 Ladies chain, forward and back.
>
>
> Tom
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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:38:39 -0800 (PST)
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> How many dances do people know of that were independently written by
> persons?
> I know of two such pairs.
>
> (1) Jim Kitch and Al Olson independently wrote the following sequence:
> Improper
> A1 Alm left N 1 1/2 and swing a 2nd (new) neighbor
> A2 Alm left a 3rd N once, pass right shoulders with the one you swung, and
> swing your original N
>
> The two dances had the same B1 (I don't remember if it's W alm L 1 1/2 and
> partners swing or Circle Left 3/4 and partners swing).
But the two dances differ only in the B2.
> Al Olson's version is called "The Empty Crack." I do not recall the name
> of Jim's version
>
> (2) Mark Richardson from Bloomington IN and someone (in California I
> think) independently wrote the same dance. I do not recall the name or
> sequence of either.
>
> Michael Fuerst
>
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Urbana IL 61801
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>
>
Hi Kalia,
I do the hand turns and dosido still in the line of six, so the
dancers are in line for the hey at the end of the dosido. When I
looked for the dance on youtube, I found that the versions I found
all had the hey before the turns, but I call it the way I learned
it. That was in 1981, at a late night dance at the All Folk Around
The Wrekin festival, with music by the Oyster Ceilidh band, and
calling by someone who was wearing a pencil skirt and high spike
heels. (I think that's the only time I've danced to a caller who
couldn't have done the dances they were calling in the outfit they
were wearing.)
It was educational looking at the youtube versions. I found both
one done by a Cornish performing group (they moved out into two
facing lines for the hand turns, and left out the swing entirely),
and one recorded at a ceilidh dance, in which the balances had
morphed into "kick-jumps".
Jacob
At 12:00 PM 2/3/2013, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:52:04 -0800
>From: Kalia Kliban <kalia(a)sbcglobal.net>
>To: Caller's discussion list <callers(a)sharedweight.net>
>Subject: Re: [Callers] Dances for Smaller groups
>
>On 2/2/2013 2:25 PM, Jacob & Nancy Bloom wrote:
> > For 6: Cornish Six Hand Reel, or any triplet that's suitable for your group
> > (See Zesty Contras for the triplets Ted's Triplet #3 and
> > Housewarming.)
> >
> > Cornish Six Hand Reel - 64 bar dance - Starting formation:
> > three couples in a line of six facing down the hall
> > Line of six go down the hall, balance twice 8 bars
> > Turn alone, come up the hall, balance twice 8 bars
> > With partner RH turn, LH turn 8 bars
> > Two hand turn, Dosido 8 bars
> > Hey for six 16 bars
> > Take partner in promenade position, face RH wall,
> > couple at RH end of set leads promenade to LH end of set and
> > makes an arch,
> > other couples come under arch, all swing partner in new
> > position 16 bars
>
>I love this dance, but learned it (and teach it) with the hey
>immediately after the lines of 6 up the hall. At that point they're
>still conveniently in the line for the hey and simply have to face their
>partners. At the end of the hey, just turn your partner enough to end
>with the men facing down the hall and the ladies facing up.
>
>Actually it has just occurred to me to ask, do you do the hand turns and
>the dosido all still in the lines of 6?
