27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
10:24 p.m.
(I was thinking about driving minor-key jigs in English dancing, where there
are only a few that really have a sense of headlong motion, and I ended up
drafting a contra dance to to show what I was talking about. Then I thought
about calling the dance and had to rejigger it a bunch to provide things like a
recovery point, etc. Now it has less obvious novelty than it did, is probably
danceable - but I don't know that it's unique. Anybody recognize the
sequence?)
Thanks!
SOLAR NOON
Becket contra
Alan recommends driving minor-key jigs
- "Sailor's Wife", "Jack's Health/Bolt the Door", "Female
Saylor", etc -
or slinky reels.
Form:BK Figs: YearnL,CL.75,NG,NS,WH4+,PG&S
A1:1-4: LL forward (and usually to the left to a new couple), and back
5-8: CL 3/4 to face neighbors up and down
A2: 1-4: Neighbors gypsy Rsh
5-8: Neighbors swing
B1: 1-8: Hey for four over and back (women pass rsh)
B2: 1-4: Women pass wide right into partner gypsy
4-8: Partner swing on the side, open facing in.
END EFFECTS: Inactive couple wait on the long 2nd diagonal (left side as
you face up or down the set).
-- Alan
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27 Jan
27 Jan
11:46 p.m.
Nice dance. One very minor point: my understanding is that a Yearn is past two couples.
Toward the first on the left then as you back away you are across from the second couple
along the line. At least the original dance with yearn did that reasoning that as you pass
that first couple you "yearn" to dance with them (but you don't).
I really do like your dance though.
Rich
On Jan 27, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
<winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
(I was thinking about driving minor-key jigs in
English dancing, where there
are only a few that really have a sense of headlong motion, and I ended up
drafting a contra dance to to show what I was talking about. Then I thought
about calling the dance and had to rejigger it a bunch to provide things like a
recovery point, etc. Now it has less obvious novelty than it did, is probably
danceable - but I don't know that it's unique. Anybody recognize the
sequence?)
Thanks!
SOLAR NOON
Becket contra
Alan recommends driving minor-key jigs
- "Sailor's Wife", "Jack's Health/Bolt the Door",
"Female Saylor", etc -
or slinky reels.
Form:BK Figs: YearnL,CL.75,NG,NS,WH4+,PG&S
A1:1-4: LL forward (and usually to the left to a new couple), and back
5-8: CL 3/4 to face neighbors up and down
A2: 1-4: Neighbors gypsy Rsh
5-8: Neighbors swing
B1: 1-8: Hey for four over and back (women pass rsh)
B2: 1-4: Women pass wide right into partner gypsy
4-8: Partner swing on the side, open facing in.
END EFFECTS: Inactive couple wait on the long 2nd diagonal (left side as
you face up or down the set).
-- Alan
--
===============================================================================
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025
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28 Jan
12:30 p.m.
New subject: Yearn?
Bob Isaacs and Chris Weiler collaborated on a dance that has the
movement you describe below. The call is "double slice left" or
"chevron". The dance is a single progression, however (see below).
I usually use "yearn" to mean going forward on the left diagonal with
your partner toward your next neighbors, and then backing up straight
across from these neighbors, so a single progression. It is a useful
alternate to "circle on the left diagonal with new neighbors" to
progress in Becket formation. But I like your explanation of why it
should be called "yearn" for double progression! It will be
interesting to hear what other callers use for these moves.
Linda
Another Slice of Pinewoods
Bob Isaacs & Chris Weiler
Formation: Duple-Improper
A1 Neighbor balance and swing
A2 Double slice left to end across from 2nd shadow
with Second shadow, Star right three-quarters
Walk past 1st shadow left along the set
B1 Partner gypsy and swing
B2 Women's Chain
Star Left
From Chris Weiiler: Written at Pinewoods American Dance and Music
week. Bob and I re-wrote Slice of Pinewoods at lunch that same day to
be a more neighbor centered dance, August 31st, 2006.
On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Rich Goss wrote:
Nice dance. One very minor point: my understanding is
that a Yearn
is past two couples. Toward the first on the left then as you back
away you are across from the second couple along the line. At least
the original dance with yearn did that reasoning that as you pass
that first couple you "yearn" to dance with them (but you don't).
I really do like your dance though.
Rich
3:08 p.m.
New subject: Yearn?
Here is the link to George Walker's dance, A Quarter More, that has the yearn figure,
collected in 1994 by Mary Devlin. I suppose that through the folk process a figure a bit
different could also be called a Yearn.
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_121.html
Would also be interested in what other callers are doing with this figure. My dance with
the yearn, Simplicity Becket, is not long lines but done as couples. Another deviation.
On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Linda Leslie <laleslierjg(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Bob Isaacs and Chris Weiler collaborated on a dance
that has the movement you describe below. The call is "double slice left" or
"chevron". The dance is a single progression, however (see below).
I usually use "yearn" to mean going forward on the left diagonal with your
partner toward your next neighbors, and then backing up straight across from these
neighbors, so a single progression. It is a useful alternate to "circle on the left
diagonal with new neighbors" to progress in Becket formation. But I like your
explanation of why it should be called "yearn" for double progression! It will
be interesting to hear what other callers use for these moves.
Linda
Another Slice of Pinewoods
Bob Isaacs & Chris Weiler
Formation: Duple-Improper
A1 Neighbor balance and swing
A2 Double slice left to end across from 2nd shadow
with Second shadow, Star right three-quarters
Walk past 1st shadow left along the set
B1 Partner gypsy and swing
B2 Women's Chain
Star Left
From Chris Weiiler: Written at Pinewoods American Dance and Music week. Bob and I
re-wrote Slice of Pinewoods at lunch that same day to be a more neighbor centered dance,
August 31st, 2006.
On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Rich Goss wrote:
Nice dance. One very minor point: my
understanding is that a Yearn is past two couples. Toward the first on the left then as
you back away you are across from the second couple along the line. At least the original
dance with yearn did that reasoning that as you pass that first couple you
"yearn" to dance with them (but you don't).
I really do like your dance though.
Rich
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