John,
Thanks so much for your hard work and sharing a tremendous amount of information with us.
There’s one allemande I’d like to know more about. It’s the one used in the the dance, Away to the Camp which can be seen on the Lambertville ECD site.
Tom
Sent from my iPad
Hi all,
Following up on forum discussions over the years, some of
which floundered a little without photographs to aid the discussion, I have
now created this page on Allemandes:
http://contrafusion.co.uk/Allemande.html
I haven't linked to it yet. Please let me know of any
updates, errors, omissions, etc.
Once a few more people have checked it out I will add some
more links to it.
Thanks to all those of you who contributed words of wisdom.
I hope you find it useful.
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
940 574
http://contrafusion.co.uk/KentCeilidhs.html for Live Music Ceilidhs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive DVDs
Hello all,
Just letting the community know that Ralph Sweet passed away last week:
https://memorials.leetestevens.com/ralph-sweet/3877859/index.php
I hope to keep dancing and calling for as long as he did. An inspiration.
--
Luke Donforth
Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>
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I have found two identical dances. First I collected Coconut Cream Puff by
Nils Fredland, then I lost the card, and in the process of looking for it
online, discovered Coconut Cream Pie by Lynn Ackerson. It is the same dance:
4 Facing 4
A1 Lines of 4 go forward and back
middles star R once
A2 Partner allemande L 1 1/2
new middles star R once
B1 Partner balance & swing
B2 All 8 circle L 1/2 (4 places)
Balance ring, partner California twirl
So who really wrote it? Does anyone know why there are two names and two
choreographers attributed?
Hi, Liz,
I have that choreography as "Coconut Cream Pie" by Lynn Ackerson. I
collected it that way from Nils Fredland a few years ago.
Dugan Murphy
(he/him)
Portland, Maine
dugan at duganmurphy.comwww.DuganMurphy.comwww.PortlandIntownContraDance.comwww.NufSed.consulting
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 20:36:43 -0400
> > From: Liz Burkhart <burkhart.liz(a)gmail.com>
> > To: callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
> > Subject: [Callers] Coconut Cream Puff vs Pie + choreographer?
> >
> > I have found two identical dances. First I collected Coconut Cream Puff
> by
> > Nils Fredland, then I lost the card, and in the process of looking for it
> > online, discovered Coconut Cream Pie by Lynn Ackerson. It is the same
> > dance:
> >
> > 4 Facing 4
> > A1 Lines of 4 go forward and back
> > middles star R once
> > A2 Partner allemande L 1 1/2
> > new middles star R once
> > B1 Partner balance & swing
> > B2 All 8 circle L 1/2 (4 places)
> > Balance ring, partner California twirl
> >
> >
> > So who really wrote it? Does anyone know why there are two names and two
> > choreographers attributed?
>
Hi All,
In the first video link in Callers Box, one dancer is doing an interesting addition at A2b:
A2 Partner allemande L 1 1/2;
New middles star R once WHILE new ends Neighbor swing.
Cheers, Bill
Thank you! That sure does look like the same dance except B2 (or in the
original, C1!)
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> I have found two identical dances. First I collected Coconut Cream Puff by
> Nils Fredland, then I lost the card, and in the process of looking for it
> online, discovered Coconut Cream Pie by Lynn Ackerson. It is the same
> dance:
>
> 4 Facing 4
> A1 Lines of 4 go forward and back
> middles star R once
> A2 Partner allemande L 1 1/2
> new middles star R once
> B1 Partner balance & swing
> B2 All 8 circle L 1/2 (4 places)
> Balance ring, partner California twirl
>
>
> So who really wrote it? Does anyone know why there are two names and two
> choreographers attributed?
>
Michael Dyck and my contra dance database project, the Caller's Box,
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
now includes links for about 1,900 dances to about 8,000 youtube videos.
They're currently unsorted, but hopefully after a few random clicks on
the currently 115 identified videos of Gene Hubert's "Butter",
there'll be an interesting one.
-Chris Page
San Diego, CA
