Re: [Callers] Ricochet hey dances

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Re: Ricochet Hey (John Sweeney) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:43:13 -0000 From: "John Sweeney" &lt;info(a)contrafusion.co.uk&gt; To: &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: [Callers] Teaching a Ricochet Hey Message-ID: <CA0CE9090DD943DB981F833BFF1A9940@JohnT400> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The key thing for the caller to understand is that when the two dancers ricochet they take each other's place in the hey, and are now going backwards. This means that they must NOT just bounce back the way they came, or to a neutral position on their own side - they have to follow the looping flow of the hey. I never actually explain that though. I just tell them to bounce back at the opposite angle to the way they came in. Describing it as a triangle usually helps. And one quick demo usually solves 90% of the problems. The other 10% of the problems come from people who bounce back and then stop! They are still part of the hey and have to keep moving. So instructions like these sometimes work: "As you come to the middle you will meet someone on a diagonal; bounce off that person and head backwards on the other diagonal, then move left* and come in again; you are going around the same triangle over and over again." *or right, depends on the dance. Note: As you bounce you change direction by just under 90 degrees, it is very easy to let that rotation continue and throw a couple of spins in :-) Happy dancing, John John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events, Instructional DVDs and Interactive Maps http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Contra Dancing in Kent ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:57:38 +0000 From: Ron Nelson &lt;callerman(a)hotmail.com&gt; To: &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] Teaching a Ricochet Hey Message-ID: &lt;BAY158-W162F5D0B4F05A84D3CAA57B82C0(a)phx.gbl&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Very perceptive description John. It helped me considerably as I prepare to teach this movement. Thanks, Ron Nelson ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:58:42 -0500 From: Lisa Greenleaf &lt;laleaf(a)verizon.net&gt; To: Caller's discussion list &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] ricochet or push-back hey - Tapsalteerie Message-ID: &lt;9B6B880F-78F1-42C9-A29B-F4CBB2E9FC71(a)verizon.net&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii A little history here: Adam was the first to take this dance flourish and put it in a dance. He called it the figure a Queen Bee hey after a neighborhood in Seattle. I liked the move but wanted a name that reflected the action of the figure, so I called it a ricochet hey and wrote a dance with the same name; the dance is a riff on Tony Parkes' Flirtation Reel. My original dance had alternating 1s and 2s, but that worked only with experienced or up-for-anything crowds. I don't call this any more, as other folks have written much better dances! Ricochet Hey Duple Improper A1 (8) Down 4 in line , 1s in middle, turn alone (8) Up, face N (1s BTB in middle) A2 (16) Passing Neighbor R, 1s whole hey, 2s Ricochet B1 (16) B&S N B2 (8) For & Back (8) 1s Sw, face down Lisa Greenleaf ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:32:52 -0600 From: Martha Edwards &lt;meedwards(a)westendweb.com&gt; To: "Caller's discussion list" &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] Teaching a Ricochet Hey Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTikPqPe2xhMfu3fuLO2ckOyeERGBpnSi71ThgRpm(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I find that if it's a regular hey (ladies start by the right shoulder) a ricochet hey feels a bit like a reverse Mad Robin - walking a sort of dosido track while facing across - adding, of course, the push-off... M E On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM, John Sweeney &lt;info(a)contrafusion.co.uk&gt;wrote;wrote: -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:09:34 -0500 From: Andrea Nettleton &lt;twirly-girl(a)bellsouth.net&gt; To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] Teaching a Ricochet Hey Message-ID: &lt;4CFEBEAE.4050903(a)bellsouth.net&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I teach a ricochet hey like a slice of pizza. You go in up the side of the slice, angle back out down the other side of the slice, and curve back to place along the crust. The other dancers dance the crust first then either cross, or in a double ricochet hey, go into the center and back out along the sides of the slice of pizza. Worked when I taught my dance, Mambo, to my skit cast for West Side Contra. I wrote a move which I believe is novel, which I called a Half Ricochet Allemande Hey. It actually returns all participants to their original places, which are already progressed, but gets them moving in the right direction. In it, the ladies travel the pizza slice as described above, but the gents, who are across the set from their partners, travel the crust first, and instead of passing by the right to cross over, continue the circle they began by allemande-ing back to place and on to meet their new neighbor. It has a beautiful flow, the circle folding in on itself like waves tumbling over one another in the ocean. Here is the dance, not as we danced it in the skit, which we had to do shifted forward a half phrase to accommodate the hits in the music, but as you would teach it to a hall of dancers, but probably not one full of newbies. :-) MAMBO! (Improper) A1 Partners face and Mad Robin Circle L 1x A2 Balance the ring, Spin R 1 place (Petronella) Partner Swing B1 R & L Through Ladies Chain B2 1/2 Ricochet Allemande Hey [OR California Roll] *See below New Nbr. Gypsy *In a 1/2 Ricochet Allemande Hey, the Ladies, who are coming out of the Courtesy Turn following the Ladies Chain, go into the center, ricochet (push one another back and to the left.) They arrive at their Nbr's place turn and curve out and towards their starting place, then beyond for the gypsy. The Gents curve back and to the right then into the center for an Allemande L (some would call it a 1/2, some 3/4, I say till they are back where they began the 'Hey'), and continue past the starting place to Gypsy a New Nbr. to Gypsy. It isn't exactly a Hey, though that's where I started with the move. It does have a nice folding quality to it and spits everyone out moving toward the New Nbr. I think of the Ladies as doing a slice of pizza, making the tasty point first, ending with the crust, while the Gents do a whole pie, starting with the same bit of crust the Ladies will later do. Tasty for all. To do the California Roll in this dance: when the Ladies come out of said Courtesy Turn, all free up their hands and face into their original hands four as they would if they circled, with Partners standing across the set. Partners take the handy hand, which is the Lady's R, the Gent's L, lift joined hands, the lady curls in toward her partner and walks under while he walks past, to swap, reverse direction, and face New Nbrs. Not yet proper, they immediately do a Roll Away with a Half Sashay to swap places but continue to face the New Neighbors, whom they might then Gypsy. I used the move to end the dance. It gives very elastic and satisfying connection with the partner for such a purpose, but could also function as a perfectly good progression. It is less good in that capacity for this dance because the first New Nbr. interaction is a forward moving one. It might be more properly termed a Nevada Roll due to the starting positions, but who can resist something as funny and catchy as a California Roll? On 12/7/2010 4:32 PM, Martha Edwards wrote: ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:49:23 -0000 From: "John Sweeney" &lt;info(a)contrafusion.co.uk&gt; To: &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] Ricochet Hey Message-ID: <58F0164537EA4103B3909D045E0477C1@JohnT400> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The ones I know are: Ricochet Hey #1 (no idea who wrote it, sorry) Contra; Improper Start in lines of four facing down, #1s in the middle A1: Down the Hall in Lines of Four; Turn Alone Up the Hall in Lines of Four; #1s face #2s A2: Full Hey: normal Hey for #1s; Ricochet Hey for #2s B1: Neighbour Balance & Swing B2: Long Lines Forward & Back #1s Swing - end facing down to pick up next #2s Rolling Hey (by Charley Harvey) Contra; Improper A1: Circle Left; Neighbor Swing A2: Circle Left 3/4; Partner Swing B1: Star Right; Ladies' Chain B2: Ricochet Hey for all - start with Ladies into the centre on a slight Right diagonal; push back on a slight Left diagonal, then step to the right; Men do the same, starting with the step to the right; REPEAT) - so no-one ever crosses the set during the Hey. Ladies keep moving to the right into a new circle. Men turn to their left out of the last push into a new circle. Happy dancing, John John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Contra Dancing in Kent ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers End of Callers Digest, Vol 76, Issue 13 ***************************************