2 Oct
2017
2 Oct
'17
10:48 p.m.
I'm pretty happy with the choreography, generally. I think adding a Gents'
chain would serve to make the dance less accessible, and that wasn't my
goal in writing it.
I recently picked up a dance by Don Veino that has an English figure in it,
too. I think the figure is called Hole in the Wall? That's another figure
I'd love to see plopped into more contra choreography for easy/intermediate
dances!
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby <adeislauby(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If you find experienced folks do those moves faster,
you could swap the
ladies chain/dosido for a gents chain and do si do and make the facing star
1 1/4. I think that would make it clockwise becket. Amble on west?
Thanks for working to fix that problem. I often wish my box had dances
with a pousette, or a ricochet, or a mad robin that had no other non-survey
figure and also had some built in recovery time.
Alex
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Angela DeCarlis via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Thanks all! I have a video uploading to YouTube now of the dance's debut
from last night, I'll post it here when it's done. You'll see that the
dancers are using up the music for both the poussette and the star, at
least in this crowd. Maybe it would be different for other (more advanced?)
crowds, but I encouraged everyone to take their time, and it seemed to work
out pretty well!
While I like the dance of Ryan's, Maia, a big part of why I wrote this
dance was because I was struggling to find a contra dance that included a
pousette and *didn't* included any challenging figures (mad robins,
ricochet hey, etc). I thought about including a walk-around before the
partner swing, but the connection is already there, so I decided to just go
old-school and let the dancers swing their partners for the full 16 beats.
Angela
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Maia McCormick via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Your dance doesn't look familiar to me (for
whatever that's
worth)--though I agree with Dugan's point that experienced dancers will
take fewer that 8 counts to do that pousette and fewer than 8 counts to
turn the star 3/4 (probably a lot fewer!), so it will potentially be a
very, very long swing. If you care, you could potentially get around that
by doing a walk-around and swing to eat up that extra time. Or just leave
it and let the dancers sort it out!
Agreeing with Dugan yet again, I've been calling that figure a "facing
star", which seems to work well and be descriptive.
And if you're itching for a dance with pousettes and facing stars, I
premiered this one of Ryan Carollo's at YDW this weekend and folks seemed
to dig it:
*Trip to Saratoga** by Ryan Carollo* || improper
*A1:* half pousette w/ P (gents pull)
facing star 1¼ (gents fwd)
*A2:* P walk-around & swing
*B1:* half hey (gents by L), ladies ricochet
N swing
*B2:* long lines & gents roll N
half pousette w/ P (ladies lead)
Ladies be proactive to catch P's hand in B2. B2 pousette should be
leisurely or ppl arrive at A1 early.
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bill Olson via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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Mac, Well "Gypsy Star" and "Gypsy
Waves" are two other Ravitz dances
that have the interwoven long wavy lines and the "Gypsy Star", not sure if
there are more. Probably.. But as long as you brought it up, the problem I
found that most dancers had with the figures was NOT the Gypsy Star but
rather the woven waves which, to many, were a little too "intimate" for
comfort.. Just my observation from admittedly a pretty small sample..
bill
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Cary's dance is Woven Waves. I really liked it and called it several
times - and I hav also danced it on several occasions
I stopped calling it because I was not getting good feedback on the star
figure from the dancers.
Mac McKeever
St Louis
On Monday, October 2, 2017, 3:30:07 PM CDT, Bill Olson via Callers <
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Dugan and all, I don't know if Cary Ravitz actually "invented" the Gypsy
Star but he wrote a dance entitled that and a lot of others that include
it. Dugan, you're sort of Cary's protégé, right?, so you must know the
dance. This is the same figure, correct??
bill
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Hi, Angela,
I've been calling the figure a "facing star," when I bother naming it at
all while teaching or prompting it.
Also, nice dance, though I suspect that since experienced dancers tend
to take fewer than eight beats to do half poussettes and 3/4 stars, I
suspect that dancers may end up swinging for as many as 20 beats.
Dugan Murphy
Portland, Maine
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Hey y'all!
After a lovely weekend of both Contra and English at Youth Dance
Weekend, I
had an itch for programming some English-inspired choreography at BIDA
last
night. Since I didn't have a dance with the figures I wanted, I whipped
one
together on the drive home, tested it in the driveway, and debuted it
last
night. Success!
Now the question, of course, is whether or not someone already wrote it!
-===-
Amble On East
Becket CCW
A1: Long Lines Forward & Back
Ladies Chain Across (to Neighbor)
A2: Ladies Dosido 1x
Neighbor Swing
B1: Give & Take, Gents draw Partner into 1/2 Poussette CCW
With NEXT, Gypsy Star* 3/4 (Ladies backing up)
B2: Partner (Long) Swing
-===-
*Do we have a new name for this figure yet? I called it Gypsy Star in the
walkthrough once or twice before realizing I should maybe figure
something
else out, and the phrase "Special Star" actually escaped my mouth, to the
absolute delight of some of the dancers. During the dance itself, I just
called "Star."
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