I agree with Martha and Colin. There's no reason to think that any contra dance without two swings has a bug, necessarily, although Don may have been in the mindset of fulfilling the desires and catering to the tastes of his audiences when he said what he said. I can support that, too! Greg On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:01 PM, via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.netwrote:Send Callers mailing list submissions to callers@lists.sharedweight.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to callers-request@lists.sharedweight.net You can reach the person managing the list at callers-owner@lists.sharedweight.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Another Existential Inquiry (Don Veino via Callers) 2. Re: Another Existential Inquiry (Martha Wild via Callers) 3. Re: Another Existential Inquiry (colin@colinhume.com via Callers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:39:33 -0400 From: Don Veino via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers@sharedweight.net> Subject: [Callers] Another Existential Inquiry Message-ID: <CAAJTti+363WfJH7Xhv1nHGRVexEZrqE+RNgVNod= f5-3v4a4uA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Given the simplicity of the following, I expect to confirm they already exist... but thought I'd check in with the knowledgeable horde here on SW. This is something I apparently "wrote" over a year ago but found again during a files dive today. :) I expect I may have put it aside due to no Neighbor swing in the first pass. Spun off w/another A2 to address that just now, below. Revisiting them in light of the great heat we've had locally, they might be sweet lower exertion dances with the right tunes. And lack of a second swing can be a "feature" vs. "bug" in such conditions. Please let me know the real author(s), should it not be me. :) Thanks, Don Don Veino DRAFT 20150117 - Becket Left/CW A1 LT Diag R&L Thru Ladies Chain Straight Across A2 Star Left Star Right B1 Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P) B2 Gents Allemande Left 1/2x Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing Don Veino DRAFT 20160726 - Becket Left/CW A1 LT Diag R&L Thru Ladies Chain Straight Across A2 Ladies Glance Around* Right 1x Neighbor Swing B1 Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P) B2 Gents Allemande Left 1/2x Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing *Glance Around is just a placeholder for that other call, you know the one... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/attachments/20160726/55202df8/attachment.html------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:57:30 -0700 From: Martha Wild via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> To: Don Veino <sharedweight_net@veino.com> Cc: Caller's discussion list <callers@sharedweight.net> Subject: Re: [Callers] Another Existential Inquiry Message-ID: <A52CE449-B157-4AC3-893E-02504A5495CB@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" What is it with people and every dance having to have a neighbor swing? I personally dislike dance programs where every dance has a neighbor swing. Sometimes I?d like to pay attention to the partner I?m dancing with and not everyone else. Sometimes interesting choreography is available when you don?t have to squeeze two swings into everything. It adds variety to a program when there some dances without neighbor swings. When I first started dancing many years ago, lots of dances didn?t have a partner swing and only had a neighbor swing. Mother-in-law dances, we called them. And sometimes, when I had a partner who was really bad at swinging, I was happy to do them! So I don?t think your first dance is fatally flawed, or even should be considered as having a bug - it?s just what it is, a dance with a partner swing, and as you said, on a hot night in a crowded hall without air-conditioning, one swing, or even dances where only actives swing, can suddenly be desirable. MarthaOn Jul 26, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Don Veino via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:Given the simplicity of the following, I expect to confirm they alreadyexist... but thought I'd check in with the knowledgeable horde here on SW.This is something I apparently "wrote" over a year ago but found againduring a files dive today. :) I expect I may have put it aside due to no Neighbor swing in the first pass. Spun off w/another A2 to address that just now, below.Revisiting them in light of the great heat we've had locally, they mightbe sweet lower exertion dances with the right tunes. And lack of a second swing can be a "feature" vs. "bug" in such conditions.Please let me know the real author(s), should it not be me. :) Thanks, Don Don Veino DRAFT 20150117 - Becket Left/CW A1 LT Diag R&L Thru Ladies Chain Straight Across A2 Star Left Star Right B1 Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P) B2 Gents Allemande Left 1/2x Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing Don Veino DRAFT 20160726 - Becket Left/CW A1 LT Diag R&L Thru Ladies Chain Straight Across A2 Ladies Glance Around* Right 1x Neighbor Swing B1 Big Oval Left and Right (until opposite P) B2 Gents Allemande Left 1/2x Partner Glance Around* Right, Swing *Glance Around is just a placeholder for that other call, you know theone..._______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers@lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/attachments/20160726/da3e1d88/attachment-0001.htm------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:05:54 -0400 From: "colin@colinhume.com via Callers" <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> To: callers@sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] Another Existential Inquiry Message-ID: <380-22016732715554711@M2W159.mail2web.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:57:30 -0700, Martha Wild via Callers wrote:?What is it with people and every dance having to have a neighbor swing? Ipersonally dislike dance programs where?every dance has a neighbor swing. Sometimes I?d like to pay attention tothe partner I?m dancing with and not?everyone else. Sometimes interesting choreography is available when youdon?t have to squeeze two swings into?everything.That's exactly what I think, and I'm so pleased to hear an American say the same thing! Colin Hume (currently in Ann Arbor, MI where I'm calling a workshop of Advanced Contras & Squares on Saturday) -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft? Exchange - https://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers@lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net ------------------------------ End of Callers Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12 ***************************************
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