Title: Major Hey
Author: Erik Hoffman
Formation: 4-face-4, becket
A1: Circle Left 3/4, pass through; New Neighbor Swing
A2: Long Lines; Men allemande Left 1 1/2 (to a line of people across
both, sets, partners facing, men back-to-back)
B1: Balance, slide right (a la Rory O'More); balance left, slide left (a
la Rory O'More)
B2: face partner, use right hand to start 1/2 hey for 8 (16)**
C1: partner balance and swing
David (G), you are correct. The only difference between what Tom and
Gaye called are the B1 - the Rory O'More.
In teaching this dance, people need to remember that when they start
they hey they are passing their partner by the right and going opposite
directions from their partner -- though the next-to-the-outside two
people will immediately 'bounce' off the ends and effectively follow
their partners.
If you end up having two major sets (lines) of four-face-four, you need
to keep them widely separately. People have a tendency to keep hey-ing
across 16 people. Fun, but not necessarily this dance.
Seth Tepfer
Director of Administrative Computing
Oxford College of Emory University
seth.tepfer(a)emory.edu
770-784-8487
-----Original Message-----
From: callers-bounces(a)sharedweight.net [mailto:callers-
bounces(a)sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of David Giusti
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:31 AM
To: Caller's discussion list
Subject: Re: [Callers] Major Hey
I have a 1/2-hey for 8 dance, but without a title, that I got from Tom
Hinds' calling.
Double Contra
Becket
A1. Circle Left 3/4, pass through
New Neighbor Swing
A2. Long Lines
Men allemande Left 1 1/2 (to a line of people across both sets,
partners facing, men back-to-back)
B1. Half hey for 8 (pass Partner by right)
B2. P B+S (The swing will always be on the same side of the set, but
in
the other line.)
Gaye Fifer called a similar dance at the Gypsy Meltdown last year --
it
was essentially the same, except that an extra
wavy-lines section
extended it to 40 bars. Perhaps that one was actually Major Hey; I
have
no idea how this one is related to it.
-David
----- Original Message -----
From: David.Millstone(a)valley.net (David Millstone)
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 8:54 am
Subject: Re: [Callers] Major Hey
To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
The dance was written by Erik Hoffman and
requires 40 bar tunes.
David
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