[Callers] Re: 3-facing-3 dances / triplets w/o contra corners

Somewhat puzzled by parameters of the question. It's an arbitrary distinction but I've only encountered "Pleasure Vest" in ECD dances here so that's how I thought of it. Also are you asking for both unclear on whenther you're asking for both threesome Sicilians and three couple set dances. Anyway, here's an animation of Gary Roodman's threesome Sicilian or longways, "Emma Turns Three", which is beloved in Los Angeles and popular elsewhere. No contra corners, lots of action, potentially disorienting. No swing, though. https://youtu.be/Y4snWTAaCps For a three-couple set with some zip - but a ceilidh, not a contra, attitude to swinging - I like "Around One" AROUND ONE From Hugh Rippon's "The Willow Tree" Easy, ceilidh 3-couple longways, 32-bar New England single reels (Gives "reel de Ti-Jean" and "Green Mountain Petronella") A1: Lines go forward and back then cross to the other side THUS: middles turn right hand one and a half WHILE ends do a half right and left four around them (hence the title) A2: Repeat to place. B1: Right hand star for six; left hand star for six. B2: 1s down the middle to the bottom while the others move up and swing. My own "Palindrome Date Triplet" is useful for swing practice for beginners but there's very little more to it than that. http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=16632 Sorry if this is no help. -- Alan ________________________________________ From: Louise Siddons via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 2:31 PM To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] 3-facing-3 dances / triplets w/o contra corners Hi all, In a workshop yesterday, one of the participants asked about favorite 3-facing-3 dances. I have several (Walpole Condo, by Ric Goldman, and Rita Rescheduled, by Alan Davies, for example), but I said this is exactly the sort of question I find it productive to ask this list — so here I am, asking on the workshop’s behalf! And while we’re at it, a second question along these lines came up: great triplets that *don’t* have contra corners? That’s a long list, potentially, so I’ll nuance it by saying for myself I’m always particularly interested in accessible but unusual figures (The Pleasure-Vest, by Colin Wallace, has an utterly delightful figure that combines a chain, a star, and an orbit, for example). Please don’t only point us to lists of these formations; the workshop participants were specifically asking for individual recommendations of favorites. We can all Google, but there’s utility in knowing that real, living humans find a particular dance worth doing :) Louise Winchester, UK louisesiddons.com _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To unsubscribe send an email to contracallers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net