8 Jul
2022
8 Jul
'22
1:47 p.m.
On 8 Jul 2022, at 21:04, Michael Dyck via Contra
Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
The balance is with your original neighbour at the end of the A1 and the swing neighbour T
the beginning of A2.
On 2022-07-08 10:18 a.m., playford1651--- via
Contra Callers wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody recognise this dance:-
Duple minor, improper, double progression
Star right all the way, star left halfway, balance neighbour.
Swing neighbour, promenade across set, cross trail.
Square through 2 changes, swing next person.
I'm not sure there are enough figures there for a standard-length contra. What's
the timing? (E.g., how does it fit to the musical phrases?)
Is the "balance neighbour" with someone from the next minor set?
"Promenade across" followed by "cross trail" is unusual. Normally,
the promenade has you (and your neighbor, in this case) wheel around to face back in; so
then you do a cross trail from there? Or do you mean that after the promenade, you *pass
through* and then cross trail? (That would be less unusual.)
Sorry, assumed that a cross trail was preceded by a pass through.
And a cross trail would typically leave you moving up or down the set (toward a new
neighbor). So does the square-through start with a change on the side, and then across?
No it starts facing across.
I found one dance that starts the way you describe:
"Revisiting Reel" by Al Olson
https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=3978
Textually, the rest is fairly different, but I think it has a similar feel.
Similar but not a double progression.
Graham