14 Jun
2017
14 Jun
'17
1:21 p.m.
I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers, and they asked
for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that it's probably a square
called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much luck tracking down the actual
moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I can't watch a video or listen to a
recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks for any help.
Deborah Hyland St Louis
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14 Jun
14 Jun
1:54 p.m.
Perhaps this is the one you mean? “Go like thunder” is a phrase sometimes used for this
square.
Have fun!
Linda
Forward Six & Back
A1 -----------
1st old cpl lead out to the right
Circle up 4 with all your might.
Leave her there and on to the next
A2 -----------
Circle up three
Steal that girl and put her on the right
On to the next
B1 -----------
Circle four and leave her there
Go on home
B2 -----------
Six to the center and back you go
Two lone gents with a do si do.
Right hand high and left hand under, twirl those girls and go like thunder.
Repeat three times until all are home with Partner.
On Jun 14, 2017, at 9:21 AM, dje h via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
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I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance
to a group of campers, and they asked for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure
out that it's probably a square called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much
luck tracking down the actual moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I can't watch
a video or listen to a recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks
for any help.
Deborah Hyland
St Louis
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4:50 p.m.
Also known as "California Fruit Basket," or "Ladies Bow, Gents Bow
Under" The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first Couple 2, then
couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
On June 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM dje h via Callers
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I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers, and they
asked for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that it's probably a
square called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much luck tracking down the
actual moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I can't watch a video or listen to a
recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks for any help.
Deborah Hyland
St Louis
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5:23 p.m.
Is there an index of dances on the Lloyd Shaw Foundation web site?
I see to recall that there used to be one, but the link I had bookmarked
no longer works with the new web site.
I'm assuming that the Docey Doe in this dance isn't just a dos-a-do,
but is a more complex set of movements. I know I've done some similar
figures in the past, but is there an explanation for this somewhere on
the web site?
Here is a version of the Basket Quadrille. I think I got it from a
Ralph Page book and modified it a bit.
Basket Quadrille
square (HS Keeper)
Head couples forward and back
Forward again and circle left
Change that ring to a basket swing
Right hand star (break that swing and star by the right)
Left hand star
Gents turn and swing the one behind
Everyone home and swing their own
Everyone promenade around the square
Do for the heads, then the sides
Final Figure:
Head 2 couples to the center and back
Side 2 couples to the center and back
All 8 circle left
All 8 basket swing
Break that swing and circle left
Swing your corner
Circle left
Swing your next corner
Circle left
Swing your next corner
Circle left
Swing your partner
Promenade home
One bit of patter I have heard used for basket swings is something like.
Gents take hands,
Ladies duck under,
Ladies take hands,
Now swing like thunder.
Jonathan
On 6/14/2017 11:50 AM, DAVID HARDING via Callers wrote:
Also known as "California Fruit Basket," or
"Ladies Bow, Gents Bow
Under" The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first
Couple 2, then couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
> On June 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM dje h via Callers
> <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of
> campers, and they asked for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did
> figure out that it's probably a square called Swing Like Thunder, but
> I'm not having much luck tracking down the actual moves. WiFi is
> really spotty out here, so I can't watch a video or listen to a
> recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks for
> any help.
>
> Deborah Hyland
> St Louis
5:36 p.m.
This is Lloyd Shaw's index of dances.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/dance-figures.html
This is also a very good resource for many of these Western Squares dances:
Rocky Mountain Caller: Bill Litchman's Calling Book
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Caller-Litchmans-Calling/dp/1890034207
Erik
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Is there an index of dances on the Lloyd Shaw
Foundation web site? I
see to recall that there used to be one, but the link I had bookmarked no
longer works with the new web site.
I'm assuming that the Docey Doe in this dance isn't just a dos-a-do,
but is a more complex set of movements. I know I've done some similar
figures in the past, but is there an explanation for this somewhere on the
web site?
Here is a version of the Basket Quadrille. I think I got it from a
Ralph Page book and modified it a bit.
Basket Quadrille
square (HS Keeper)
Head couples forward and back
Forward again and circle left
Change that ring to a basket swing
Right hand star (break that swing and star by the right)
Left hand star
Gents turn and swing the one behind
Everyone home and swing their own
Everyone promenade around the square
Do for the heads, then the sides
Final Figure:
Head 2 couples to the center and back
Side 2 couples to the center and back
All 8 circle left
All 8 basket swing
Break that swing and circle left
Swing your corner
Circle left
Swing your next corner
Circle left
Swing your next corner
Circle left
Swing your partner
Promenade home
One bit of patter I have heard used for basket swings is something like.
Gents take hands,
Ladies duck under,
Ladies take hands,
Now swing like thunder.
Jonathan
On 6/14/2017 11:50 AM, DAVID HARDING via Callers wrote:
Also known as "California Fruit
Basket," or "Ladies Bow, Gents Bow Under"
The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first Couple 2,
then couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
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I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers,
and they asked for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that
it's probably a square called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much
luck tracking down the actual moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I
can't watch a video or listen to a recording. Does anyone have this dance
in your collection? Thanks for any help.
Deborah Hyland
St Louis
5:42 p.m.
Thanks. It would be nice if there was a link to this on the home
page, or one of the other pages that are linked from the home page.
Jonathan
On 6/14/2017 12:36 PM, Erik Barry Erhardt wrote:
This is Lloyd Shaw's index of dances.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/dance-figures.html
This is also a very good resource for many of these Western Squares dances:
Rocky Mountain Caller: Bill Litchman's Calling Book
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Caller-Litchmans-Calling/dp/1890034207
Erik
5:58 p.m.
Jonathan,
It's two layers deep in the menu, among other resources.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/
Menu: Education > Dance figures
Erik
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Thanks. It would be nice if there was a link to
this on the home page,
or one of the other pages that are linked from the home page.
Jonathan
On 6/14/2017 12:36 PM, Erik Barry Erhardt wrote:
This is Lloyd Shaw's index of dances.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/dance-figures.html
This is also a very good resource for many of these Western Squares
dances:
Rocky Mountain Caller: Bill Litchman's Calling Book
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Caller-Litchmans-Calli
ng/dp/1890034207
Erik
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6:14 p.m.
David has the right one, thank you! The next question I had was whether the circles got
progressively bigger or whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
Deborah Hyland St Louis
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:50 AM, DAVID HARDING<dharding101(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Also known as "California Fruit Basket," or "Ladies Bow, Gents Bow
Under" The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first Couple 2, then
couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
On June 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM dje h via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
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I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers, and they asked
for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that it's probably a square
called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much luck tracking down the actual
moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I can't watch a video or listen to a
recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks for any help.
Deborah Hyland St Louis
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6:23 p.m.
I always call it with circles fo r4/6/8 - the dosido has a different feel but a lot of
fun
Mac
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David has the right one, thank you! The next question I had was whether the circles got
progressively bigger or whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
Deborah Hyland St Louis
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:50 AM, DAVID HARDING<dharding101(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Also known as "California Fruit Basket," or "Ladies Bow, Gents Bow
Under" The signature move is the basket swing. Couple 1 visits first Couple 2, then
couple 3, then couple 4. Et cetera.
http://www.lloydshaw.org/swing-like-thunder.html
On June 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM dje h via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
wrote:
I'm way out in the boonies teaching square dance to a group of campers, and they asked
for a dance called Roll Like Thunder. I did figure out that it's probably a square
called Swing Like Thunder, but I'm not having much luck tracking down the actual
moves. WiFi is really spotty out here, so I can't watch a video or listen to a
recording. Does anyone have this dance in your collection? Thanks for any help.
Deborah Hyland St Louis
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6:44 p.m.
Deborah Hyland wrote:
The next question I had was whether the circles got
progressively bigger or whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
I grew up dancing Swing Like Thunder at the Farm and Wilderness Camps in Vermont (back
when the program was all squares, mixers, and couple dances) and also danced it in NYC
with Dick Kraus. In both cases the figure was cumulative (circle 4, 6, 8) but there was no
docey-doe; we just went from the basket to a circle, which the active gent broke to pick
up the next couple.
One could conceivably use a Texas do-si-do (now called do-paso just about everywhere) with
circles of six or more. Red Warrick of Kilgore, TX was famous for a version of Grapevine
Twist, which he called “Figure Eight”: active couple lead right and circle four; those
four dance a figure eight around and through the next couple; add that couple and circle
six; “do-si and a little more do” (= Texas do-si-do); those six dance a figure eight
around and through the last couple; add that couple and circle eight; “on that corner with
your left paw, right to your honey, go gee and haw” (= AL, GR&L, of course). One could
do something similar with Swing Like Thunder.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com<http://www.hands4.com>
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(to be published Summer 2017)
11:40 p.m.
Deborah Hyland wrote:
> The next question I had was whether the circles
got progressively bigger or whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
And Tony Parkes replied, in part:
One could conceivably use a Texas do-si-do (now called
do-paso just about everywhere) with circles of six or more. ...
True. However, the Colorado docey-doe discussed earlier
in this thread, where women begin by switching places
with each other--either by a left shoulder pass [something
like a left half gypsy] or by rollaway type action with
the "opposite" gent--doesn't generalize naturally to a
circle of more than two couples.
In any case, regardless of whether you use the basket in
a cumulative (4,6,8) or single visiting form, you of course
get to match it with whatever chorus figure(s) you think
will be accessible and fun for the dancers at your event,
and that needn't necessarily include any variant of
docey-doe.
--Jim
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