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