New subject: Triplet with contra corners

26 Jan 2013

Hi, all--

I don't have the lore or the archives to answer Tom or Michael, but here's
another spur-of-the-moment composition that seems very likely to have been
created earlier and elsewhere. I had just run out of suitable triplets and
I wanted to teach country corners so in desperation I tried this:

Triplet, all proper

A1: #1 couple balance, cross over, go below #2, half-figure eight up
through #2 to end proper between #2 and #3.

A2: #1 turn country corners with the usual suspects.

B1: #1 gypsy and swing, end facing up.

B2: #1 cast around #2 to go down the outside to bottom while #2 and #3 move
up; lines of three go forward and back.

Seemed to work very well for a mixed-age group of beginners (maybe because
the #1s are so much busier than everyone else?)--if it's a known sequence
I'd like to give credit where credit is due. Also interested in any close
resemblances that people like.

Chip Hedler
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 I just wrote a dance and wanted to know if it's unique.  I'm pretty
 sure the A1 is borrowed from another dance.

 D-imp
 A1      Circle left.  Mad Robin (face partner and do-si-do neighbor).

 A2      Hey, women pass left shoulders

 B1      Women pass left shoulders and swing partner

 B2      Ladies chain, forward and back.

 Tom
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 How many dances do people know of that were independently written by
 persons?
 I know of two such pairs.

 (1) Jim Kitch and Al Olson independently wrote the following sequence:
 Improper
 A1 Alm left N 1 1/2 and swing a 2nd (new) neighbor
 A2 Alm left a 3rd N once, pass right shoulders with the one you swung, and
 swing your original N

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  The two dances had the same B1 (I don't remember
if it's W alm L 1 1/2 and
 partners swing or Circle Left 3/4 and partners swing). 
But the two dances differ only in the B2.
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  Al Olson's version is called "The Empty
Crack." I do not recall the name
 of Jim's version

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  (2) Mark Richardson from Bloomington IN and someone
(in California I
 think) independently wrote the same dance.  I do not recall the name or
 sequence of either.

 Michael Fuerst
 802 N Broadway

   Urbana IL 61801
   217-239-5844

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