4 person do-si-do - Contra Callers

1 Dec 2015

In southern-style square dancing, there are several variations on a figure which is often
called “dosido” for two couples, and they are nothing like what Luke is imagining.  They
go by names like Georgia Rangtang, Georgy-Alabam, Do-si, Dosido and (I think) in MWSD a
version of it is called Do Paso.   That’s not to say that the figure you are describing
isn’t a good one for your dance; it’s just another reason to avoid calling it a dosido.  

Richard

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Richard Hopkins
Tallahassee FL
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hopkinsrs(a)comcast.net

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 Howdy,

 I've been asked to run a barn dance Saturday Jan 16, 9pm-11pm, but I'm
 busy.  The dance will be part of the Western Regional Outdoor Leadership
 Conference:

 http://outdoored.stanford.edu/center/wrolc-2016/

 If you don't know where Stanford is, you're probably coming from too far
 away to make sense.  ;-)

 There will be 100+ college students.  The theme for this year's
 conference is "diversity", and they would prefer a caller who can fit the
 theme in addition to having experience with one-night-stand environments.

 I've offered to be a filter so that they don't need to deal with the
 responses, so please respond privately to me if you're interested and
 available.  I've already explained that booking will be somewhat
 difficult both because of the relatively short notice and because it's
 Ralph Page weekend.

 I probably will also be sending out an e-mail blast to people I have
 addresses for, apologies if you get this twice.  They have already
 contacted other callers so you may actually get three copies...
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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

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 On Mon, Nov 30, 2015, Aahz via Callers wrote:

 I've been asked to run a barn dance Saturday Jan 16, 9pm-11pm, but I'm
 busy.  The dance will be part of the Western Regional Outdoor Leadership
 Conference:

 http://outdoored.stanford.edu/center/wrolc-2016/

 If you don't know where Stanford is, you're probably coming from too far
 away to make sense.  ;-)  
 Someone pointed out that I should at least have mentioned that this is
 California.

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 It's 5 am, and I find myself awake and writing dances; specifically 4x4s.
 Unfortunately, I don't have 8 dancers waiting on my insomnia to test
 things, so I figured I'd send them to shared weight...

 Possibly this is a choreographic question already answered in square
 dancing, but I'm not familiar with the outcome. How well does a four person
 do-si-do work? I'm thinking of something along the lines of:

 Doubled-si-do
 Four Facing Four

 A1 -----------
 (4) Give and Gents take (up and down)
 (12) Neighbor swing
 A2 -----------
 (8) Women's Chain back to partner (up and down), turn to face in
 (8) All four Women Do-si-do 1x
 B1 -----------
 (8) All four Men Do-si-do 1x
 (8) All eight Circle Left 1/2x
 B2 -----------
 (16) Partner balance and swing
 End facing line of direction

 In my head, the four person do-si-do is a right hand star sans hands; but
 not sure how well it'll fly; especially since the right diagonal women have
 less far to turn to face in than the left diagonal women coming out of the
 chain.

 Thoughts?

 Thank you

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 Luke Donforth
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