7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
4:06 a.m.
I was intrigued after all this discussion, and I called this dance tonight in
Berkeley, and it went beautifully. (It was a pretty decent night overall, but
this dance - with slinky tunes from Erin Shrader and Richard Mandel - was a
highlight.)
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Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
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The progression is standard; ones move down, twos move
up. The flirt/chase
could happen with either set of neighbors, but I prefer how it is written
-- up around the original neighbors rather than down around the next
neighbors. The interaction with the next neighbors in A2 is potentially
confusing, so a teaching point at the beginning might be to have dancers
locate their current neighbor and find their next neighbor, and say you will
briefly interact with the next neighbor at one point in the dance.
I didn't do that - you kind of have your neighbor in your hand from the circle
at the beginning, and the allemande brings you to next neighbor (and everybody
figured out that if you're at the ends, your next neighbor is your partner),
and by the time of the gypsy you've bonded with the current neighbors enough
that nobody tried to go round the wrong people.
The flow of this dance is really splendid. The gypsy winds up the actives and
propels them into the chase/lady-round-two figure.
One other note: a demonstration of the "lady
round two..." figure is worth
much more than any description. And the twos have lots of opportunities to
flirt throughout this figure as well.
I remembered this comment of Jerome's, and after my description of the figure
failed to work for most of the room, I got the one set that had gotten it right
to demonstrate. Life was much improved.
Thanks, caller list!
-- Alan
A1:
Circle left
Allemande right neighbor 1-1/2
A2:
Allemande left next neighbor once or 2x
Gypsy 1x
Ending gypsy below original neighbor, women facing out and men facing
in
B1:
Chase "lady round two and the gent cut through; gent around two and
the lady cut through"
Active woman walks in a clockwise direction around the inactive
couple above while the active man follows her until he can (and
does!) cut through the inactive couple.
The man now walks clockwise around the couple above, while the woman
follows until she can and does cut through the couple.
B2
Actives balance & swing, end facing down
I tried diagramming it and it seems like a backward progression? At
the end of A2 it has progressed, but during the chase it goes
backwards 2x so you end up with 1's/actives out at the top and
2's/inactives out at the bottom.
Has anyone danced and or called this dance- is it supposed to be a
backward progression?
If I change it minutely, having the #1/active man in the chase
sequence go around the same couple he just split- in other words
moving him around the couple below rather than the next couple above-
then it seems to work out as a single progression. If I called it
with this change, does etiquette demand that I announce the change?
So grateful to have found this list- I was looking at another dance
http://blake.prohosting.com/austinbd/dances/chocolate_swirls.shtml
wondering how to do a "come back cozy" into a cloverleaf and had
given up finding the info- until I found this list with the Squeaking
Wheel thread! Thanks!
Thanks in advance!
Alison Murphy
Memphis TN
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Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
660-528-0714
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
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