5 Dec
2006
5 Dec
'06
10:50 p.m.
Hi!
I'm a fledgling caller in Memphis, Tennessee, and I'm looking for
dances to add to my repertoire. I found this one online- "Caught in
the Act" by Donna McAllister/Calhoun, but I'm not sure of the
progression.
http://www.io.com/contradance/sequences/caught-in-the-act.html
The webmaster's email and the link to the author's email are defunct,
I found a couple other sources for the dance, but no contact
information.
A1:
Circle left
Allemande right neighbor 1-1/2
A2:
Allemande left next neighbor once or 2x
Gypsy 1x
Ending gypsy below original neighbor, women facing out and men facing
in
B1:
Chase "lady round two and the gent cut through; gent around two and
the lady cut through"
Active woman walks in a clockwise direction around the inactive
couple above while the active man follows her until he can (and
does!) cut through the inactive couple.
The man now walks clockwise around the couple above, while the woman
follows until she can and does cut through the couple.
B2
Actives balance & swing, end facing down
I tried diagramming it and it seems like a backward progression? At
the end of A2 it has progressed, but during the chase it goes
backwards 2x so you end up with 1's/actives out at the top and
2's/inactives out at the bottom.
Has anyone danced and or called this dance- is it supposed to be a
backward progression?
If I change it minutely, having the #1/active man in the chase
sequence go around the same couple he just split- in other words
moving him around the couple below rather than the next couple above-
then it seems to work out as a single progression. If I called it
with this change, does etiquette demand that I announce the change?
So grateful to have found this list- I was looking at another dance
http://blake.prohosting.com/austinbd/dances/chocolate_swirls.shtml
wondering how to do a "come back cozy" into a cloverleaf and had
given up finding the info- until I found this list with the Squeaking
Wheel thread! Thanks!
Thanks in advance!
Alison Murphy
Memphis TN