11 Dec
2007
11 Dec
'07
9:43 p.m.
HI Seth
Sounds like fun but.... please refine notation
or possibly its just my browser???
If I have time tomorrow I'll send a dance that
I created.
Thanks
Gale Wood
Original Message:
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From: Tepfer, Seth LABST(a)emory.edu
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:35 -0500
To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] weird contra dances
A friend in Seattle (Alan Cheetham) has written a contra dance with
substantially weird end effects called broken corners. The dance is below,
but the gist of the hook is you start contra corners, but with your first
corner you allemande left 1.5 to have the TWOs complete the contra corners.
I'm gathering some people together tomorrow night to walk through that
dance. I've got a couple of other weird dances, but while I've got some
dancers gathered together for some experimental dancing, do YOU have any
weird contras you've had hanging around and you need an in-depth, fully
studied, deliberated upon walk thru?
If so, please send them on. Tomorrow is a great time for us to work on your
dance for you!
Also, if you happen to be in Atlanta Wed, stop on by Janet's house from
7:45 - 9 to help us parse this and other dances out!
Note: I have neither danced nor called this dance. I can make no
recommendations about it being callable, danceable, understandable. It
should be danceable. I just haven't proven it yet.
Broken Corners
Author: Alan Cheetham
Start: Beckett O=men, X=women
[After hands-four improper rotate right 1 / 4 so the "Ones" are on the
right (men's proper side)]
X
O
X
O
X
O
"Ones"
O
X
O
X
O
X
Circle Left 3/4 (8)
O
X
O
X
O
X
A1a
X
O
X
O
X
O
Swing Neighbor (8)
X
O
X
O
X
O
A1b
O
X
O
X
O
X
Long Lines F&B (8)
X
O
X
O
X
O
A2a
O
X
O
X
O
X
"Ones" half Figure 8 up around Twos (8)
X
X
X
X
X
X
A2b
O
O
O
O
O
O
First broken corner - part 1 (part of 8)
"Ones" start contra corners - Alamand partner by the right ½ to first
corner (standard contra corner first corner)
X
X
X
B1a-1
OX
OX
OX
O
O
O
First broken corner - part 2 (rest of 8)
Alamand corner by the left 1 ½ (which will end in a position to send the
corner "Twos" into the middle)
X
O X
O
X
B1a-2
O X
O X
O
X
Second broken corner - part 1 (part of 8)
Former corners alamand the one you meet in the middle ¾ (to go to what
would have been the standard second corner for the original people in the
middle)
O
O
B1b-1
OX
OX
OX
X
X
X
Second broken corner - part 2 (rest of 8)
Alamand second corner position person by the left once around (to head back
along the side)
O
X
O
X
O
X
B1b-2
X
O
X
O
X
Along the set gypsy the one you meet by the right ½ to ¾ changing places
(part of 8)
O
X
O
X
O
X
B2a-1
O
X
O
X
O
X
Men gypsy across the middle by the left ½ ending facing your partner (rest
of 8)
X
X
O
X
B2a-2
O
O
O
O
X
X
X
X
O
X
O
X
O
B2a-2
O
X
O
X
O
X
Swing partner (8) (may need to swing slightly to the right, or remember the
circle will be with the couple slightly to the right)
X
O
X
O
X
O
X
O
B2a-2
O
X
O
X
O
X
Seth Tepfer
Director of Administrative Computing
Oxford College of Emory University
seth.tepfer(a)emory.edu
770-784-8487
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