Here's a crack at putting the star burst in a duple improper choreography. Stellar Star Burst Contra/Improper A1 ----------- (16) Neighbor gyre and swing A2 ----------- (8) Larks/Gents allemande Left 1-1/2 (8) Partner swing B1 ----------- (8) Long lines, forward and back (8) Left hand Star 3/4 B2 ----------- (8) Star Burst: ravens/ladies lead out, curve left; larks/gents lead back in (single progression) (8) with new neighbors Right hand Star 1x I'm not positive on the timing of B1 & B2. There are a couple of places to adjust it. This assumes giving folks a little extra time for the star burst, with a left hand star 3/4x that probably won't take the full 8 counts. If A2 were circle left 3/4 & partner swing. Then B1 becomes long lines forward and back with a left hand star 1 & 1/4; which would compress the starburst into ~6. You could also make it take more time with a double progression (a wider out, loop, and in; although it might be hard to keep track of). The gyre and swing at the A1 is pretty forgiving. I don't know how different the star burst would feel from a poussette; the two are very similar; and the above sequence could be rendered: A1 ----------- (16) Neighbor gyre and swing A2 ----------- (8) Larks allemande Left 1-1/2 (8) Partner swing B1 ----------- (8) Long lines, forward and back (8) Circle Right 3/4 B2 ----------- (8) Poussette (larks start push) to progress (8) With next neighbors Circle Left 1X I think I'd rather dance the first one than the second; but I'm not sure it's worth the teaching time. On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:52 PM Angela DeCarlis <aedecarlis(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Luke Donforth Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>

Just getting to my email now. I have an ECD with a similar move - star into couples chase out, swap leads, come back in; in my dance, they go around each other, so it's clearly a poussette variation. I tried calling it "dolphin poussette" but that really doesn't speak to people; another caller tried "couples chase out, turn right about and head back in" which got people to the right place but in a more angular way than I'd envisioned. Here's my dance (with terminology from 2010; substitute "shoulder round" and preferred role names where appropriate). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHWIND Longways duple minor IMPROPER Southwind (flowing waltz) 16-bar A, 16-bar B, no repeats. 7/1/2010 - Radically revised 6/14/2011, words revised 10/16/2011. A: 1-4: Neighbors right hand turn 1x, launching women into 5-6: half-gypsy R finishing inside set line, facing neighbor 7-8: All chassee up or down to change places with partner while looking at neighbor, finish facing partner. 9-12: Partners left hand turn 1x, launching women into 13-14: half-gypsy L, finishing inside set line facing partner 15-16: All chassee up or down to change places with neighbor (to home place), while looking at partner, finish facing in. B: 1-4:right hand star 1x which leaves men facing out, partners behind them 5-8: "Dolphin Poussette": Partners lead individually the way they're facing cast right to face the other way lead individually into progressed place and women (now in lead) loop right while men continue forward to face in into 9-12: Partners gypsy right shoulder once round into 13-16: Partners two-hand turn once round and open to face new neighbors. Notes: You could also describe the women's half-gypsy as a "hole in the wall" cross but they may want to back out to the set line if you do that. Recommend demo as early part of instruction. The "dolphin poussette" is fairly hard to get across in words, but it does have that "dolphin hey" sense of changing leads. The paths are roughly parallel. Breakdown is something like this: 5: each lead three steps out; at end women are on the men's set line while men are well out from the set line) 6: both start right shoulder cast; man's, on the wider track, gets halfway to neighbor's place while woman's gets all the way 7: man finishes cast still well out from set line while woman crosses set to progressed place facing out 8: man takes three steps forward to set line while woman loops right through her place to face in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, for your use case, maybe "turn the star once around, stay facing the way the star leaves you. Single-file in couples, go straight out, individually turn up and go up, individually turn in, and walk in until you're back in the set in a new spot." Star burst is a nice name! -- Alan On 3/8/2019 9:28 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers wrote: Thank you all, for your thoughts and discussion, and I do like the name star burst. As I'd envisioned it, the path on the floor is very much like a poussette, but the dancers wouldn't be holding hands. It's almost like the tandem turn in a dolphin hey; but with motion up and down the hall. I think of zig-zag when there's lateral movement relative to the direction the dancers are looking, which this doesn't have either. So yeah, it's a blender-mix of a bunch of different stuff. I'd be curious to hear more from the square dance callers on the list about the Tag the Line analogy; although I'm unlikely to call it a half-tag. The triplet that inspired it will unfortunately probably not see much use. I'll let folks know if I ever successfully (or unsuccessfully) run it. I'll see if I can work a star burst into another choreography. Star Burst Triplet by: Luke Donforth Proper triplet, 123->231 A1 ----------- (8) Lines of three, forward and back (8) Partner Do-si-do A2 ----------- 2s: (8) Lady round two and the gent cut through around 1s above (8) Gent round two and the lady cut through around 3s below B1 ----------- (8) 1s & 2s Left hand Star at the top (8) 2s & 3s Right hand Star at the bottom B2 ----------- (6) Star-burst: 1s walk to bottom while 2s and 3s make space and move up (12) partner swing, end facing up Notes: The B2 star-burst: 2s and 3s make room by continuing their direction out of the star. 2s curve up and left, slotting into the 1s position 3s curve up and right, slotting into the 2s position animation of it: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/292197780/ Thanks again all for kicking it around with me. On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:30 PM Luke Donforth <luke.donev@gmail.com<mailto:luke.donev@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi All, I'm playing around with choreographing triplets, and I've got a sequence that I think would flow well; but I'm not sure how to teach it short of a demo. The idea is that couples 2 & 3 do a star. Out of that star, they move out, up, and back in; leaving space in the middle for couple 1 to move to the bottom. I put together an animation of it: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/292197780/ Is that already a defined move? What would you call it? How would you teach it? Thanks for your thoughts! -- Luke Donforth Luke.Donforth@gmail.com<mailto:Luke.Donev@gmail.com> -- Luke Donforth Luke.Donforth@gmail.com<mailto:Luke.Donev@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ List Name: Callers mailing list List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net<mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net> Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/

The feel/facing may be different, but these usages appear to pretty much align with classic circle to zig/zag patterns as well? [snip] On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:58 AM Luke Donforth via Callers < callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: