27 Mar
2010
27 Mar
'10
9:59 p.m.
I went to college with Martin Sirk. He's an astronomer. He discovered contra
dance much later in life.
Lisa
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Martha Edwards <meedwards(a)westendweb.com>wrote;wrote:
Leda -
It worked on me...
And it should be noted that the dance at which I was charmed by Venus and
Mars was the Fiddling Frog, lo these many years ago...
M
E
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Leda Shapiro <ledas(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
beats)
it
Bob is such a great flirt!
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Question about Venus & Mars timing...
Notice the gypsy in B2. I think that's your answer. I remember being very
charmed by this dance at a time when I really didn't like gypsies -
mostly,
I think, because the centrifugal force of walking
around someone had no
counterbalance (like holding on to your gypsy-mate, aka "allemande"...).
This dance, this Venus and Mars, however, where the ladies spiral in to
the
gypsy from the orbit, had a more
"natural" feel to it. The physics works.
Now that I've learned the trick of leaning in slightly on gypsies (and
gotten confident enough NOT to do what the callers told me to do, which
was
essentially to be as intimate as possible with
every gypsy-mate), I've
begun
to enjoy gypsies.
This dance, however, was the first one to show me I might really like
gypsies one day. Good thing, since my husband's idea of a perfect dance
is
"gypsy your neighbor, circle left 3/4, gypsy
your partner, circle left
3/4
and pass through."
M
E
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Liz and Bill
<staf186(a)ext.canterbury.ac.nz>wrote;wrote:
> Hi Bev,
>
> The version that I have has same A1 and B2, but
> A2 Circle Left 3/4 w/partner (on the side) rollaway with 1/2
sashay,
> Gents Allemand Left 1 1/2 while
Ladies orbit clockwise
halfway
around
B1 Partner Gypsy and Swing
I assume it is the men are rolling their partners from left to right.
I've
> never danced or called it, but
> it looks like A2a can be done in 8 beats as effectively the men will CL
> once in 8 beats then have 8 beats for
> AL 1 1/2, while the women's rolling (which might take more than 2 merges
into their orbiting.
Nice that you back into the swing of things. Dancing here is low key,
I've
> got one on Sat evening of
> Easter weekend. Lots of people will be busy, so we will probably have at
--
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
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our house. The llamas are keeping
me busy, and they can now come right up to the house and they like to
watch
us dancing!
Cheers, Bill
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