Kalia,
Since no one has mentioned it and to honor Larry Jennings, I will share this triplet I love with a zipper! That is, I am pretty sure it's written by Larry. Does anyone know the title?
Jill Allen
Triplet (by Larry Jennings?)
proper
A1 all pass ptr by RH
all who can, pass person on L diag by LH
all pass person straight across by RH
L diag by LH
A2 across by RH
L diag by LH
bal ptr, box the gnat
B1 B & S ptr ending proper
B2 bottom cpl lead up the middle, turn alone and lead back down the middle
cast with 2nd (now at bottom) cpl to end in 2nd place*
*end: 33
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On May 3, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote:
I just called a tiny dance last night, and went through several of my triplets along with a big pile of English 3-couple dances that we did to old-time tunes (that was a little weird for me but the dancers enjoyed them, so what the heck). I was grateful to have the few triplets I had, and I'd like to expand my collection. The ones I used were Microchasmic, David's Triplet #7 and Ted's Triplet #24, which all have distinctive bits in them (contra corners, round two/drop through, and a cast to invert then 1s lead up, respectively). I like triplets that have some choreographic substance to them, something for the dancers to chew on.
Do you have favorites you enjoy dancing as well as calling? I get the impression sometimes that triplets are "that thing you do to fill time until the real dancing starts," but 3-couple sets can be a whole lot of fun. And sometimes they can save your butt as a caller.
We had lots of odd numbers last night, so in addition to the triplets and 3-couple English dances I used dances like Domino 5 (5 dancers) and Pride of Dingle (for 9). For a short while we had 4 couples and did contras but most of the evening was "other." Got any good dances for odd numbers?
Kalia