Hi, Bill,
I'm pretty sure Cary Ravitz first developed the figure we call "gypsy
star." I know three of his dances which use the figure. "Woven Waves"
and
"Gypsy Star" were both written in May 1999. "Gypsy Waves" was written
in
2013.
I haven't seen it in many other dances. Ryan Smith and I helped Stacey
Lang write a dance with the figure called "The Fault in Our Stars." See
http://www.twirlyshirts.com/dances/by-ryan/the-fault-in-our-stars/
Dugan Murphy
Portland, Maine
dugan at
duganmurphy.com
www.DuganMurphy.com
www.PortlandIntownContraDance.com
www.NufSed.consulting
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Bill Olson <callbill(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Dugan and all, I don't know if Cary Ravitz
actually "invented" the Gypsy
Star but he wrote a dance entitled that and a lot of others that include
it. Dugan, you're sort of Cary's protégé, right?, so you must know the
dance. This is the same figure, correct??
bill