I have a couple of Tony's books, but I just checked, and not the one containing Ashoken Hello. I'd be curious the choreo for that.

I've heard a few callers call The Big Easy, and most recently it was Liz Nelson, locally, early in an evening with a gaggle of new dancers, and she prompted it with the allemande Right.

The one on The Caller's Box has it as a Left.

I guess the other issue, which, now that I'm thinking about L vs R in details, is that from Robins role, an alle R puts it at 38-40 beats of clockwise rotation, which 26-28 beats is consecutively. 

Hm.

Changing the alle to a DoSiDo solves that, keeps the timing and keeps it as glossary moves, and flows well from a promade.(alts: pass thru across + twirl, or R+L Thru)

A1: N B+S

A2: N Prom, Robins DSD 1.5x

B1: P B+S

B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal, Cali Twirl

This dance searched brings up Yoyo Zhou's "Larks in the Afternoon"

A1: same

A2: Larks Alle L 1.5x, Robins DSD 1x

B1: same

B2: same

And also is similar to Linda Leslie's Berlin Contra:

A1: same

A2: LLFB, Robins DSD 1.5

B1: same

B2: Bal Ring, 2s Arch, 1s Dive

(Essentially, the Big Easy but Robins DSD. Now I'm curious which dance came first?)

And of course, Diane Silver's Easy Peasy:

A1: same

A2: LLFB, Larks Alle L 1.5

B1: same

B2: Circle, bal, cali.

Adding in a chain and/or a star and dropping the promenade and I have at least a dozen other dances in my box. (Appetizer, Push the Button, Too Hot To Trot, Simplicity Swing, Spend Some Time Together, Harmony Supper Line, Dick & Mary's Departure, Baby Rose, et al)

... but this niche of "simple dance with a courtesy turn, one role doesn't stay mostly in one spot, no star, no chain" is something I know I've looked for programming gigs and left wanting.

I'll leave this thread going as more callers see it and have dances to think of. I may temprarily dub the DSD version "The Big Hello".

-Julian

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:16 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the left-hand turn was counterintuitive after a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because the next moves are a right-hand balance and box the gnat. I decided that the forward and back (between the swing and the turn) canceled the handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm these days), the turn can be with either hand.

 

Tony Parkes

Billerica, Mass.

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From: Bob via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:31 AM
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation

 

Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines and before the partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and can’t go back to the source. I bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection. 

Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan Hello” by Tony Parkes, for use as a first contra dance of the evening where newcomers are plentiful.‘

 

\Bob

On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:



I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?

 

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand after a swing.

Lisa

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> On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as:
> Big Easy Becky Hill
>
> A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
> A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
> B1: P B+S
> B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
>
> An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in the evening and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
> A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
> B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
>
> It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary dances - that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was looking for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The Caller's Box website.
>
> Thanks,
> Julian Blechner
> he/him
>
> p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name. Pronouns are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get a new website, etc.
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