[Callers] Re: 3-facing-3 dances / triplets w/o contra corners

Rereading your original post I can't see how I was confused about whether three-face-threes and triplets-without-contra-corners were two separate questions either and yet I wrote a response with three-face-threes without contra corners or swings.; (To be fair, I was really whacked after a three hours calling ECD, three hours dancing contra, four hours overall driving, the return trip entirely in the rain (yay! but wearing).). So no lack of clarity on your part - I p;robably just shouldn't have been sending email in that state. Here's an ancient 3-face-3 contra I wrote on the fly back with gendered roles on a night when we had many more men than women and the men weren't dancing together, so I asked each woman to find two partners and line up in the middle. It worked well in these conditions and I haven't called it since; I think it's kinda zesty . It's not ideal as you only swing people in your own threesome (middle with each end, plus basket swing). The swing is more like ceilidh protocol because you finish on the side you started - but it would be fab if everyone was prepared to swing in either role; then you would change places and have a new person in the middle each time.] https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=12198 (Later I wrote one where the center people swing all four non-center people in turn, but never had. a chance to try it out.) Also, I love love love Walpole Cottage with the super contra corners, but no swings. -- Alan ________________________________________ From: Louise Siddons <lesiddons(a)gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:18 AM To: Winston, Alan P. Cc: callers(a)sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] 3-facing-3 dances / triplets w/o contra corners 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. 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! 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.