of course the A2 sequence was borrowed from my own dance 20 Below (and undoubtedly many others)
bill
From: Bill Olson <callbill@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2022 11:40 PM
To: Julian Blechner <juliancallsdances@gmail.com>
Cc: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Subject: Re: [Callers] new dance?
 
Easy As Pie is pretty much the same dance. Still different enough to be unique I guess. let's see what others say.

thanks Julian!

bill
From: Julian Blechner <juliancallsdances@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2022 9:45 PM
To: Bill Olson <callbill@hotmail.com>
Cc: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Subject: Re: [Callers] new dance?
 
Here's a few similar ones I found:

Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better by Tavi Merrill
Different entrances to the swings, but Tavi opts for a Allemande 1x only, and staring 2 passes of a hey for the Women/Ladies/Robins to get to their partner.

Easy as Pie by Tom Lehmann
https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=935
Different entrances to the swings, and no balance before the pass-through

There's plenty more that vary a little more, but, that's the way it is with these glossary dances, yeah?

... I dig your version as a super forgiving way to teach the hey.
I'd love to know if someone else has this choreo down, because I'd like to add it to my box.

-Julian Blechner
he/him

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 4:37 PM Bill Olson via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
So I'm driving down the road, stick a CD by Kimberley Holmes in the radio thing. Kimberley is an amazing fiddler and pianist from Halifax.  I met her at Maine Fiddle Camp this year. This tune in the queue just HITS me and my brain immediately starts "writing" a dance to go with it. I haven't composed a contra dance since, probably, Ellie's Pumpkin Show and that's from the mid 2000's I think. So this "creative thing" that used to happen a lot hasn't happened for a while.. (understatement)......

I'm not calling a lot of contra dances these days. Mostly barn/community/family dances and when I do call a contra dance it's with ladies, gents, gypsies, etc. I have done Larks and Robins but the choreographer part of me only does ladies and gents etc. hah hah...

Anyway here's what popped out:

A1 DSD N Sw N
A2 M allem L x 1.5, hey (start Partner R Sh)
B1 Pt B&S (or Gyp & Sw)
B2 Cir L 3/4, bal ring, Pass thru

I have about 5 alternate B2 parts here's just one:
B2 Pass thru across (NO courtesy turn), face L, L/H star x 1.25

I prefer the easy original version. I figured I could check "callers' box" as Russell pretty much always does, to see if any of the sequences come up. I didn't find anything but not sure I am specifying the figures properly. 

OK so I have this dance in my brain and I go to the CD jacket to see what track #9 is. The title is "Kimberley's House Party". What a great title for a dance.. 

This is such an easy dance, simple sequence.. Does it already exist?

thanks.... bill



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