Re: [Callers] Lost a posting, please help

Jean, The conversation you're looking for is archived at http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-April… and http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2015-May/d… The SharedWeight archives are still somewhat in disarray. I'm sure Seth is just as bothered as anyone by it and is working to find a solution. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, I can find the URLs above by going to http://www.sharedweight.net then clicking "Callers" in the left column, "LIst Archives" on resulting page, and then either of the links marked "Date". While the main page for the callers' list archive http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/ currently only displays links for April and May of this year, it's easy to guess how to modify the URLs listed at the beginning of this message to look for archives from other months. (Searching, alas, is still broken.) I believe the specific video you're looking for is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URKq4xSqDtc referenced by Colin Hume on April 30. The dance shown is Kim's Game, by Colin Hume. Colin wrote: The description in the video references Colin Hume's book Dances With a Difference, Vol. 4. The dance is also described in the 1999 and 2006 RPDLW syllabi (as I found thanks to Michael Dyck's Contradance Index). The 2006 syllabus has this note: The author writes: “Kim Pankhurst challenged me to write a longways dance where couples progressed across the set rather than up and down. So some couples progress the normal way; others just go across and back. I’ve had people complain that they didn’t progress, even though I had explained this— one man was so annoyed that he walked out of the dance! But men don’t complain that they don’t progress in a square. You’re dancing with the same partner and a different neighbor each time—does it really matter which piece of floor you’re on?” The dance description says that the dance is for "two side-by-side [contra] sets that interact in the B part". You might wonder what would happen if you tried to do it with three of more sets interacting. (It's easy enough to change the arch and dive figure in the B1 into an ordinary pass through, so that people in the middle sets don't have to identify "inside" and "outside" couples.) If I've analyzed the choreography correctly, as the number of sets increases, there will be more and more dancers who not only stay near the same part of the floor, but also nteract repeatedly with the same neighbors. Specifically, with three sets, there will be dancers who interact with familiar neighbors and new neighbors in alternate rounds. With four or more sets there start to be some dancers who interact with just two different neighbors over and over. --Jim On May 19, 2015, at 10:28 AM, jean francis via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: