30 Mar
2015
30 Mar
'15
12:33 p.m.
There's a few weave-the-line to hey transitions.
Bob Isaacs (in "From Here to Infinity"?) has you follow the momentum
of the weave-the-line to interact with the person on the side, letting
go just a little early. If the weave the line was with your partner,
and it was a zig left, zag right progression, then the first hey pass
would be neighbor right.
I experimented last month with a Joyride-type hey entry (pousette,
weave the line, and couples do-si-do are very similiar), where the
center people curve around each other. In this case you'd step to a
left-handed wave, and the center people would curve around each other
by passing right shoulders. (The experiment didn't quite work because
a lot of dancers panicked by progressing indecently. But a similar
type-thing is on my site called "Slalom Slide".)
But you've got a slightly different entry, where you break a little
earlier, and centers pass each other face-to-face to start the hey.
Teaching this is ... tricky, but it reads like it flows well.
It's interesting how many different hey entries work. For me it's the
timing that's the most challenging with the weave the line/hey
transition.
-Chris Page
San Diego
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Don Veino via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Another recent composition (thanks to Luke for getting
me thinking about
Zig-Zags!), called this to good feedback earlier this month.
Only tricky part of the teaching was the A2 through B1 Hey entry... how
would you teach this? I generally hate breaking the flow of a dance in a
walk-through if possible to maintain it, but some folks got lost when I
first taught it as "...Hey - Gents pass left shoulders across, Pass Partner
Right..."
My current thinking is to form a teaching-only wave across with Gents by
left in center, have them note the side Gent is on (will Swing P back here
when meet second time), drop hands and start the Hey.
Thanks,
-Don
PS: At least one dancer needed re-assurance that passing through in reverse
of progression was correct the first time around. :)
Hey, Let's Zig-Zag!
[Type]: Contra [Formation]: Duple Improper [Author]: Don Veino
[Status]: DV::
[Comments]: Zig-Zag into Hey dance (first of it's kind?). Tricky two
forward, one back progression.
::
[A1]:
(4,12) NEIGHBOR BALANCE, SWING
::
[A2]:
(4,4) CIRCLE LEFT 1/2, Ladies lead P ZIG LEFT [past CURRENT Ns]
(4) ZAG RIGHT [passing NEXT Ns, to face 3rd Ns] and SEPARATE from P
#PROGRESSION 1&2
(4) HEY 1/8, GENTS START BY LEFT [across set, GL, PR, etc.]
::
[B1]:
(8) HALF HEY [so 5/8 total, until meet P 2nd time]
(8) PARTNER SWING [on Lady's home side]
::
[B2]:
(4,4) RING BALANCE, LADIES ROLL GENTS [DIAGONALLY back-to-back across set,
NO Half Sashay] *OR* Alternate: Gents Cross by Right
(4,4) RING BALANCE, PASS THROUGH [Up/Dn] in REVERSE of progression
#DE-PROGRESSION
::
[Notes]: TEACH - NEVER OUT - do what those in the dance want you to do at
ends! End effects TBC, but expect it is to wait out with Lady on Left ready
to Zag right towards the Hey.
Can have dancers swap places up/down with their N after hands-4 - this is
the direction they'll come into the A1 Balance. Linda Leslie suggested a B2
Gents cross in place of my original draft's Gents See-Saw 1+1/2, added a
Gents Roll Away option for more connection.::
[Tunes]: ::
[Provenance]: From author. Composed 2/23/2015. First called Scout House
3/9/15 with Gents Cross in B2::
[Tags]: DI, Intermediate-Advanced, DV::
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