Thanks to everyone who has replied so far; I’m compiling a list to share with workshop participants (some of whom aren’t on here), and can share it Aug the list as well if it’s of interest.

Some quick replies to Alan’s points.

> On Nov 7, 2022, at 11:51 PM, Winston, Alan P. <winston@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

If the puzzlement is about genre then yes, you caught me. I’ve already completely absorbed the UK’s lack of hard distinctions between contra and ECD and this didn’t even occur to me. Having said that, there are “contra” triplets (and other dances) without swings because Americans also used to have more diversity in their contra dancing, as has been rehearsed on this list and elsewhere many times. And I have no idea how Colin would feel about it, but I have taught/called the Pleasure-Vest to tunes other than the one he suggests because it’s a square contra tune and plenty of other tunes work beautifully. Which is also a bit of a British attitude!

> Also are you asking for both unclear on whenther you're asking for both threesome Sicilians and three couple set dances.

I thought I was clear by saying “and another question that came up,” but yes, we are looking for both. Although 3-f-3 could be longways as well as Sicilian.

Louise.
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