On 2016-11-02 1027, Richard Hart via Callers wrote:
Any recommendations for a dance on Monday, Nov. 14, a
day when the moon
will be the closest it's been in 70 years? We'll want to celebrate then,
I'm sure, at the Nelson dance! For a syzygy, if for no other reason!!
A day we'll want to celebrate, I'm sure.
So, I put "moon" in the search box at Antony's site and received a load
of possibilities.
["Antony’s Country Dance Database contains 15299 entries"]
There are two for "celestial", quite a few for "orbit" and three with
"planet" as part of the name, including Planetary Convergences.
http://www.heywood.nl/antony/dances/
"Syzygy" and "perigee" had nil returns. "Eclipse", which
really isn't in
this instance, has two.
However,
syzygy contra dance
entered at
https://DuckDuckGo.com my go-to search engine (doesn't
bubble-up responses for one thing) gave me a fun entry in an edition of
the newsletter for The Folk Project (not a dance, sorry.)
(For a dance with Laura Winslow and the Big Chaos Band, Jan 2015)
"Consulting their notes and theory, Big Chaos Band contends that
fractals repeat their patterns on every scale. As Winslow calls a hey,
the protons and electrons of the helium molecules do a hey for four.
When Chorus Jig is danced, there are cosmic contra corners among the
celestial bodies. When the ladies allemande with the men orbiting, the
planets orbit around their binary stars and when we line up in threes
for triplets there is a syzygy in the heavens. Beware the black hole as
we collapse into the center along with the butterfly effect created by a
butterfly whirl."
Cheers, John
--
J.D. Erskine
Victoria, BC