Hi Maia, 

Not sure if you've already run this one (I'm behind on e-mails). Personally, I would caution that getting dancers out of the habit of Rorying to the right first might be hard.

I have in my box a similar dance, called Wildabeasts (that I wrote in 2017), that replaces your A2 with a
(8) Raven's Chain across
(4) Circle RIGHT 1/2, pass through 
(4) Pass through to an Ocean Wave
That sets you up with your partner in your right hand, instead of your left hand.

I will say, that while I wrote it and it's in my box, I've never actually called it (along with about 150 other compositions). 

As for dances I have actually called.

There's a variation of Donna Hunt's "This Could be the Start of Something"
http://donnahuntcaller.com/dancesByDonna.html 
that starts with the Down the Hall, and has the ravens slide all the way to their partner for a balance and swing instead of ravens allemande->partner swing. 

Erik Hoffman's "Missing Duck" has an A2 Rory, and a B2 P B&S, as does Fidgety Feet/Fickle Finger of Fate by Mark Richardson/Don Lennartson.

None of those three have a neighbor swing though. For that, I'd turn to Bill Olson's "Dancing With Amy"
Becket-CW

A1 -----------
(8) Circle Left 3/4
(8) Neighbor swing
A2 -----------
(8) left diagonal Ladies’ chain across to your shadow
(8) left hand star (to a long wavy line with your partner)
B1 -----------
(8) Balance and slide to the right (as in Rory O’More)
(8) Balance and slide to the right (as in Rory O’More)
B2 -----------
(16) Partner balance and swing


 


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:14 PM Maia McCormick via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I wanted a closer with a Rory O'Moore and a partner balance and swing. This is what I came up with. Does this (or a variant thereof) already exist?

Wave Goodbye (becket L)
A1: (on the L diagonal) give and take N (to lark's side)
N swing
A2: ravens chain (to P)
ravens alle. R 1 1/2 to short waves (LH to N, ravens by R)
B1: bal. L and R, slide L (short waves, RH to N, larks by L)
bal. R and L, slide R, ravens sliding extra to pass each other
B2: P b&s
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