i call this fairly regularly and know a couple of others who also do occasionally. i haven't had much trouble teaching the celtic hey. i find that if i tell them it's easy and they can do it, they usually will. i have a different conceptual vision of it than described below. everybody needs to find their own vision so they can teach it well. and of course, if you have a chance to do it more often, it becomes easier for both caller and dancers.

Barb This dance sounds really cool but I need it written out for me step by step to visualize it better. Could you send me your version and how you teach the dance? Would love to learn it and use it down the road at one of my gigs. Thanks so much. Barbara Goldstein Springfield, NJ -----Original Message----- From: barb kirchner <barbkirchner(a)hotmail.com> To: callers <callers(a)sharedweight.net> Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 10:10 pm Subject: Re: [Callers] celtic hey call this fairly regularly and know a couple of others who also do ccasionally. i haven't had much trouble teaching the celtic hey. i find that f i tell them it's easy and they can do it, they usually will. have a different conceptual vision of it than described below. everybody eeds to find their own vision so they can teach it well. and of course, if ou have a chance to do it more often, it becomes easier for both caller and ancers. To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:21:37 -0600 Subject: Re: [Callers] celtic hey Tropical Gentleman is sooo cool - but hard to teach. -----Original Message----- From: callers-bounces(a)sharedweight.net [mailto:callers-bounces@sharedweight.net] n Behalf Of Chris Page Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:34 PM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] celtic hey On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Tom Hinds <twhinds(a)earthlink.net> wrote: There's maybe only two or three dances with this figure. Best known is one by Kathy Anderson -- I think it's "The Tropical Gentleman." Only one on the web I know of is the since-deprecated "Knit the Knot": http://web.archive.org/web/20080226231928/http://www.richgoss.com/rgdanceco… Conceptual version of it is a hey on two axes, or two spin the tops without hands. In detail, starting in a wave of four, gypsy right half way on the side. Then centers gypsy left 3/4 while others orbit clockwise 1/4. Then in the middle all gypsy right half original person. New centers gypsy left 3/4 while new ends orbit clockwise 1/4. And that's how the contra dancer gets to the other side, in about twelve+ beats. (Less or more.) Sometimes the first gypsy is replaced by a pull by. I presume there's also a mirror image version of it. It's not a move I care for, personally. (Complexity-wise and space-wise.) But there are others who do. -Chris Page San Diego _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers ______________________________________________ allers mailing list allers(a)sharedweight.net ttp://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers