Hello all,
I was lying awake in bed last night, running through dances in my mind, and
put together the following. It's a fairly straightforward dance, so I'm
curious if it already exists in the collected oeuvre
Improper
A1
Neighbor Balance and Swing
A2
Gents Left allemande 1.5x
Pass partner by R for 1/2 hey
B1
Partner Balance and Swing
B2
Ladies Chain across the set
Left Hand Star 1x
Those balance and swings could easily be replaced with gypsy meltdowns, as
the right shoulder is available in both cases. That's not really enough to
make it a different dance in my opinion, so there are a couple of
permutations this may already exist in. Thoughts?
On a different note, I have vague memories of dancing a dance with a figure
similar to contra corners, but instead of coming back to partners by the
right in the middle, the active couple slide past each other and interact
with both lines of dancers. I'll try describing it as a sequence of
interactions below
In a triplet, with couples (A 1), (B 2), (C 3) where letters are gents and
numbers ladies
A 1
2 B
C 3
2 & B pull by R
2 & 1 allemande L while B & C allemande L
2 & A allemande R while B & 3 allemande R
2 & B slide past each other
2 & 3 allemande L while B & A allemande L
2 & C allemande R while B & 1 allemande R
It possibly ended with B & 2 doing a balance and swing in the middle, or
maybe everyone doing a balance and swing (although C and 1 will be facing
away from their partners).
I feel like it's a lot of motion, and might even require a non-square tune?
Something like Fleur de Mandragore that adds just a tiny bit extra to a
phrase (in Fleur's case, a measure of 3/2 in the A2)
Is that ringing any bells for folks? I may have to try to write this as a
dance to excise the sequence from my head. I put a lot more dance
choreography stuff up on facebook, so feel free to drop me a line off-list
if you'd like even more of these random thoughts.
Thanks all! You'll know if my account is ever hacked, my e-mails will become
a lot more concise :-)
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