Wow! I had assumed you really meant “long lines”, as in “Each couple face across the hall” as opposed to facing up and down toward the next line of four as is usual in 4x4s. If you mean the usual “Face another line of four,” then “Long lines” (with or without “forward and back”) is just plain inaccurate. Glad we clarified that.

 

 

Tony Parkes

Billerica, Mass.

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From: Tepfer, Seth <labst@emory.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [External] RE: New dance for your consideration

 

Tony

 

Thank you for your feedback. Instead of saying "long lines forward and back", I could have said "lines of four go forward and back", though technically they are going up and down. Perhaps "short lines, go forward and back"

 

I want the dance to be clearly understood by all.

Seth

 

Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP (he, him, his)

Senior IT Manager, Emory Primate Center

From: Tony Parkes <tony@hands4.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9:02 AM
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Subject: [External] RE: New dance for your consideration

 

Hi, Seth and all… Two points:

 

1. I’m aware that a lot of folks use “long lines” as shorthand for “long lines forward and back.” It bugs me, but that’s probably just my age and eccentricity. But I humbly submit that in a 4x4, where there are fewer conventions – things taken for granted – than in a longways, it’s helpful to spell out as much as possible.

 

2. Do you really mean “long lines forward and back,” not “forward and back up and down the hall”? The former call is so unusual in 4x4s (in fact, I don’t think I’ve encountered it before) that I think it merits a note below the description.

 

Cheers,

Tony

 

Tony Parkes

Billerica, Mass.

www.hands4.com

New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century

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From: Tepfer, Seth via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 10:09 PM
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Subject: [Callers] Re: New dance for your consideration

 

Hello Callers. 

 

Update on the dance previously presented. Thank you Bill Baritompa for the suggestion to switch to left hand waves. Much more satisfying! Thank you Tanya for the naming feedback.

 

Title: Two for Tea*

Author: Seth Tepfer

Formation: 4x4

A1: Long lines (8), in fours, Right hand chain to neighbor (8)

A2: Same person DSD (8), Neighbor swing (8)

B1: in fours, balance the ring (4), petronella spin to a wave of two - give neighbor LEFT hand to form short waves of two people; balance (4), "circulate 2" (walk forward two spaces) (4)

B2: balance (4), "circulate 2" (walk forward two spaces) (4); left hand dancer turn around and partner swing; end swing facing original direction and new couples progressed and on the other side of the 4-some

 

Note:

  • At the start of the dance, identify your traveling buddy of the opposite role. This is your shadow. When doing the circulate two think of the direction you are facing as a racetrack or a paperclip - if you get to the end you will loop to your left to continue. You will end up in the place of the 2 people in front of you. You will pass 3 people and take the hand of the 4th. If you loop, looping counts as passing one person. When you remake the wave of two, the person you take left hands with  is your shadow, 

*Please note new name and discard previous name of the dance.

 

  • We only had 8 people, so after partner swing, we faced back in to repeat the dance. Normally after partner swing you would face your original direction to have new couples to play with.
  • The musician was playing "Softly Good Tummas' on a lark and because it is such a fabulous tune. That tune is not requisite for the dance.

 

Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP (he, him, his)

Senior IT Manager, Emory Primate Center