10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
11:27 a.m.
I've been calling a couple of 4 face 4 dances to good reviews- Mark Widmer's
"This Dance Has No Title" - the variation by Bob Isaacs- and Seth Tepfer's
"Color Outside the Lines"
One of our regular dancers who is into the 4f4's suggested I look up Pat Shaw's
K&E. Some searching revealed the steps, but I have no idea what it means. Anyone with
experience calling this dance, or who could explain double becket formation, how the
splitting and casting off works, or the power turn on the ladies chain?
Also does anyone else have a favorite 4f4 formation dance to share?
TIA!
K&E by Pat Shaw- formation Double Becket
1's are in the middle and progress down, 2's are on the ends and progress up
A1: 1's split the 2's, cast back to place, end facing the other 1's(8)
1's only- Right hand star, back to your 2's (8)
A2: 2's split the ones and cast back to place (8)
Same four (1's w/ 2's): Left hand star (8)
B1: 1's only- Ladies chain with power turn - face out (8)
Ones with the twos: Ladies chain (8)
B2: Same four: Circle left ¾ (8)
1's Circle left ¾ and move down a little while 2's Swing
and move up (8)
-Alison Murphy
Memphis TN
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10 Oct
10 Oct
12:11 p.m.
I'll take a crack at it <G>. Think of a standard becket: Couple facing
couple in long lines. Put two of these lines next to each other. This is one
set. As in any 4 face 4 style dance, there are four couples in a sub-set.
Of these four couples, two couples are back to back in the middle. These are
the ones. The two couples facing into the center of the set are twos. The
ones will progress down, the twos will progress up.
The casts are solo walk arounds. Rather like a gypsy with the other person
not participating. So in A1, the ones will split the couple they are facing,
walk around the closest person and come back into the center to make a star
with the other number one couple.
Ladies chain with a power turn is a regular ladies chain, but the courtesy
turn is once and a half so you end up facing away from the couple you did
the chain with instead of toward them. If you are of a generation who has
never seen a courtesy turn, get a geezer to show you <G>.
HTH,
Beth
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I've been calling a couple of 4 face 4 dances to good reviews- Mark
Widmer's "This Dance Has No Title" - the variation by Bob Isaacs- and
Seth Tepfer's "Color Outside the Lines"
One of our regular dancers who is into the 4f4's suggested I look up
Pat Shaw's K&E. Some searching revealed the steps, but I have no idea
what it means. Anyone with experience calling this dance, or who could
explain double becket formation, how the splitting and casting off
works, or the power turn on the ladies chain?
Also does anyone else have a favorite 4f4 formation dance to share?
TIA!
K&E by Pat Shaw- formation Double Becket
1's are in the middle and progress down, 2's are on the ends and
progress up
A1: 1's split the 2's, cast back to place, end facing the other 1's(8)
1's only- Right hand star, back to your 2's (8)
A2: 2's split the ones and cast back to place (8)
Same four (1's w/ 2's): Left hand star (8)
B1: 1's only- Ladies chain with power turn - face out (8)
Ones with the twos: Ladies chain (8)
B2: Same four: Circle left ¾ (8)
1's Circle left ¾ and move down a little while 2's Swing
and move up (8)
-Alison Murphy
Memphis TN
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
~Samuel Adams
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4:43 p.m.
On 10/10/08, crunchymama(a)juno.com <crunchymama(a)juno.com> wrote:
Also does anyone else have a favorite 4f4 formation dance to share?
I really like the 4-face-4 genre, and have about eighteen of those
dances I really like on file. Favorites include "Coray's Silver Jubilee"
by Carol Ormand, and "Dance All Night" by Rick Mohr. (They're
both on the web.)
Interesting note on K&E -- it's technically an English Country Dance,
and has its own music should you wish to use it. But it's American
in style, written back in the 1970's, or before. In fact Pat Shaw wrote
so many ECD dances in the American contra style that I consider
him one of the great contra composers, even if he never actually
wrote contras.
-Chris Page
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