22 Apr
2018
22 Apr
'18
3:48 p.m.
You caught me with that question!
I have a Sicilian Circle from Margo Gunzenhauser called "5 O'Clock Circle".
You could, of
course do it in contra lines but the end effects would be disasterous, rather more than
the
dance you propose. Margo's dance (likely learned from Ted Sanella) is as follows;
A1 Right Star 1/2 / Next Neighbors Left Star 1/2
Next Neighbors Right Star 1/2 / Next Neighbors Left Star 1/2
A2 With the SAME Neighbors, Circle RIGHT once all around
This neighbor D.S.D.
B1 Same Neighbor(s) Star Thru (balance using inside hands and twirl to swap)
ending facing original line of direction.
Same Neighbors Circle Left once around
B2 Balance ring, Partner Swing
Next round starts with same Neighbors from A2 above.
Have fun and keep reinventing the wheel!
John McIntire
Unity ME
On Saturday, April 21, 2018 11:05:03 PM ADT Luke Donforth via Callers wrote:
I was recently thinking about star to star
transitions. There are lots of
great dances that go star 1x to opposite hand star 1x (such as Lisa
Greenleaf's "Poetry in Motion", Robert Cromartie's "Al's
Safeway Produce",
Linda Leslie's "Burlington Spirit"...); and then there are the star ->
same
hand star dances (Mike Richardson's "Star Trek", my "Voyager",
Dugan
Murphey's "The Next Generation"...)
Are there dances that use star just half way -> with next, opposite hand
star 1/2 way? I'm envisioning something with a bit of a zig-zag feel, but
that could be done in crowded dance halls where you don't want folks
swooping out laterally (like John Coffman's "Boys of Urbana"), but more
connected than a single file promenade snake like Cary Ravitz's "March of
the Coffee Zombies".
Are there already dances out there like this?
Switchback Stars
Improper, single progression
A1
With #1 Neighbors, Left Hand star 1/2x
With #2 Neighbors, Right Hand star 1/2
With #3 Neighbor, left shoulder gyre 1x
A2
With #2 Neighbor, right shoulder gyre and swing (now current neighbors)
B1
Circle Left 3/4
Partner Swing
B2
Ladies chain across to neighbor
Long Lines forward and back
If so, how do they handle the timing?
And for that dance (assuming it doesn't already exist), would you prefer it
as written above, or shifted to put the progression in B2?
Switchback Stars + 16B
Improper, single progression
A1
With Neighbor, right shoulder gyre and swing
A2
Circle Left 3/4
Partner Swing
B1
Ladies chain across to neighbor
Long Lines forward and back
B2
With #1 Neighbors, Left Hand star 1/2x
With #2 Neighbors, Right Hand star 1/2
With #3 Neighbor, left shoulder gyre 1x
come back to Neighbor #2, now current neighbor
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Luke Donforth
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