9 Sep
2013
9 Sep
'13
9:11 p.m.
I wrote:
* What would you call that move (kind of a mix of
give-and-take
and shift right) that achieves the progression in the B2 of
Rick Mohr's "Sunset Limited"?
and Sam Whited responded:
I've always heard this called a `yearn' (on
the diagonal). No idea who
calls it that though.
It's definitely not a "yearn". You can see what I'm talking about
in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4KB-uSWkKc
Watch the action at 0:24, 0:57, or 1:30 where gents retrieve their
partners from the opposite side of the set before shifting right.
In this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzm-AvUm3Vw
Adina Gordon calls a variant that adds a roll-away so the women are
on the right of their partners during the progression.
--Jim