Jeffrey,
Here you go:
Through the Looking Glass Wendy Greenberg
REVERSED
PROPER [all cross over]
A1: Neighbor Same Sex Mirror Allemande 1 1/2 (ones split twos)
TWOS swing [end facing down - the current neighbors]
A2: In a Ring of Four, Balance, Circle Left 1/2
Partner Balance, Ones Cast Out & Down WHILE Twos Two-Hand Turn Left
1/2
B1: Ones Turn Contra Corners [Men with men corners, women with women
corners!]
B2: Ones Balance & Swing
I got the dance directly from Wendy in Texas, perhaps at the Ted Sannella
weekend where she called it in the "local callers" session. She since moved
with her husband Mark to Bemidji, Minnesota. Note that they are NOT the
parents of a baseball player who was hit on the head a year or so ago.
(That was the first hit when I just googled Wendy.)
Somehow I've never gotten around to calling the dance. Where di you happen
to hear of it?
William
On 4/12/07, Jeffrey Petrovitch <jeffrey.petrovitch(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Looking for some help... Looking for interesting contra dances with a
> star promenades.? Also wondering if anyone has the dance sequence
> "Through The Looking Glass" by Wendy Greenberg.
>
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William J. Watson
Hi Chris, Thanks for the session at DE! I really had a ball.
It was good to have that session early in the day, as it required
More brain power (esp. No use crying over...) an excellent
Dance that I aspire to call some day (thanks for the calls)
Caller needs to be on top of it all the way through.
You melded well with the band.(can't go wrong with
Calliope!)
It was good to hear you in the Medley as well.
Your calling style is evolving in a positive direction. Very enjoyable!
I'm calling my 1or 2 dances (literally) a month working on timing and
voicing. Refining my dance book, knocking the wheat form the chaff.
Waiting for that big gig (may have to go to Saskatoon to get it ;-))
Thanks keep the good works
Gale
Thanks to everyone who so generously sent me suggestions for easy dances to use in the fourth slot that I, as a new caller will call at our Toronto Country Dancer's dance that Bev Bernbaum will be calling next Saturday.
I have attached a Word document that has all the dances, some of which are annotated with teaching notes.
I have two requests: I need the details of two dances: First Hey by Paul Balliet, and "Kiss of a Lifetime" bu Peter Stix (I could not find either through an internet search. [A suggestion: Please post the info to the whole list, so once someone has sent the info, others need not bother. Thanks!]
The other request is for suggestions on how to teach a hey. (I am a little bit terrified.)
Please note, that I have not chosen a dance yet, but need to do so by tomorrow, so I cam open to suggestions from the list I sent (including the two above) and any other dances that you think are suitable. [Note: If I am too terrified to teach a Hey, then Bev has graciously offered that I can choose another easy dance, so I am open to suggestions on that front as well.]
Thanks for 'Sharing the Weight', and helping me out! I have learned a lot from you out there in List Serve Land so far, and I am looking forward to more!
Jillian Hovey
Facilitator of Sustainable Community Planning and Design
The Sustainable Living Network
& Sustainable Living Books
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
416-410-7581; fax 416-654-8917
Draft Web Sites:
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Here are the moves for Mood Swings:
Mood Swings - Sue Rosen Improper
A1: Long lines forward and back
on your way back roll away w/1/2 sashay
(ladies rolling to the right of their Ns along the set)
Gents allemande left 1 1/2
A2: Partner balance and swing
B1: Circle left 3/4 and flatten (see note) into a
1/2 hey (Start pass N by rt sh)
B2: Neighbor balance and swing
After the circle left 3/4 in B1, use two counts of good connection to bring the Gents to the outside of the set facing in and the ladies to the center facing out, ready for the half hey. This action makes Mood Swings a particularly satisfying dance.
Hey Everyone!
I remember "Mood Swings" by Sue Rosen, being a great contra dance, but
unfortunately, I can not remember it.
Can someone help?
Thanks,
j_petro
Hi Folks
Just had a great time at Downeast! the lineup was fantastic!
Learned lots from Rick Mohr and his 'whining walk-throughs
If you've never been to a Rick dance, drop what your doing and go....
now to the task at hand. Does any body have the calls for Shades of Shadracks? I created a dance based on Shadracks
and I dont wish to step on any toes.
(+ its a dance I wish to collect!)
Thanks
Gale
I have B2 as
Ladies chain, star left.
Very different feel.
-ag
> Date: 26 Mar 2007 15:50:54 EDT
> From: David.Millstone(a)valley.net (David Millstone)
> Subject: Re: [Callers] Dead Cats and Mellow Dances
>
> Dead Cat Bounce
> by Nathaniel Jack
> Formation: duple improper contra
>
> A1 Balance and swing neighbor
>
> A2 Men allemande left halfway,
> Partner allemande right 1x
> Men start hey for 4
> (Men go halfway, but women ricochet back to the
> side where they start by
> meeting in the center and pushing back with both
> hands.)
>
> B1 Circle left
> Partner swing on the side
>
> B2 In long lines, forward and back
> Women gypsy once and a half
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Hi all,
This is actually two separate questions. First: Does anyone have the dance
called "Dead Cat Bounce" (or something like that)? Second: There is a
category of dances that is common at contra dances now that might be called
mellow dances. I mean the ones often done to smooth, slinky music. They
tend to be quiet and smooth. Mostly I am interested in when you schedule
these in an evening. Assume that dancers are mostly experienced. If you
have some dances like this to share I, of course would love to see them and
if you have good mellow tunes to suggest, that would be great, but mostly I
am curious how you approach scheduling them into the evening. Finally,
barring naming specific tunes, what do you say to the musicians, old or
young, so that they know what you want?
That's a lot of questions, so thanks in advance.
Rickey Holt.
Thank you all who gave me such good suggestions for a mother son dance
earlier, and thank you all who have given me smooth, bluesy, slinky ....
tunes and dances and thoughts on how to schedule them. The mothers at the
mother's sons dance all danced, without being under contract to do so (as
was suggested by some). We had the mothers dance with their sons, which
helped a lot. "Jump, Jim Joe", "White Mountain Reel", (see Dudley's book),
and "La Bastrange" were all big hits. The waltz was something to see.
Thanks again to you all,
Rickey Holt
Fremont, NH
Rickey asked when we schedule mellow dances in an evening. I'll put such a dance
immediately after (or before) a single dance or series of dances that are more
energetic. The more relaxed tempo acts as a breather, to give some dancers
(think of folks who are older, for example) an opportunity to continue dancing
and to catch their breath; such a dance/tune also makes an exciting dance that
follows all the more exciting by contrast. Thus, for example, toward the end of
a first set, I might program something at moderate tempo, then a dance with
higher energy, then something more mellow, and then finish up with another
high-energy (but not too complex) dance.
One such tune that I often request for a particularly elegant dance that I like
to call with experienced dancers is Coleman's March.
We were discussing Erik Weberg's dance Joyride on this list not long ago, and
that's another dance that, in my opinion, works nicely with a slightly slower
tempo. Depending on how quickly dancers move through the hey, it can have a full
16-count swing, and the more relaxed pace allows dancers to enjoy the whole
swing without racing.
Keep in mind that the actual speed of a particular tune, measured in beats per
minute, might be the same as another, but one might have lots of eighth notes or
sixteenth notes, whereas the other could have many whole or half notes. The
second one may strike dancers as more relaxed, in the same way that calls with
fewer words may seem more relaxed than the same dance called with lots of busy
patter.
David Millstone
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Dead Cat Bounce
by Nathaniel Jack
Formation: duple improper contra
A1 Balance and swing neighbor
A2 Men allemande left halfway,
Partner allemande right 1x
Men start hey for 4
(Men go halfway, but women ricochet back to the side where they start by
meeting in the center and pushing back with both hands.)
B1 Circle left
Partner swing on the side
B2 In long lines, forward and back
Women gypsy once and a half
