Hi Joseph et al.

Saw this today, and here's what I came up with:

Mescolanza (4 face four), Couples swap sides each time, start facing up and down

A1: Opposite Larks Allemande Left 1.5 (8), Opposites swing (8) face across;

A2: Larks Allemande left (with line buddy lark) to short waves across (8), Balance (4), with the one in your right hand (original diagonal opposite) Allemande right about 7/8 (to place larks in the center);

B1: Larks hands across star left WHILE Robins orbit cw half way to meet partners (8) take partners by the right hand to form two waves that cross in the middle, Waves balance right and and left (4) and everyone slide right past their partner (a la Rory O' More (4);

B2: Partners Balance and Swing, and face original direction of dance (16).

Needs a field test, of course. But if you like it, you can name it. Critiques and requests for clarifications welcome.

Greg

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM Joseph Erhard-Hudson via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

This title and concept for a dance burst into my head during the recent auroras. 

It ought to have shifting wavy lines, of course, and is there a way to have an orbit around a star?  Ooh! A hands across star where a pair spits out and goes outward and into orbit…

Anyway, I don’t have the compositional chops to develop it in a timely way, but I would love to see it exist. If my notion inspires anyone to write it, hooray. 

-Joseph

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