New subject: newbie caller with question about a dance

6 Dec 2006

Alison,

I would say the progression happens in A1, with the allemande 1 1/2 the ones
are now below the twos. You end A1 in the progressed position and, except
for a brief visit with the next neighbors, you continue to interact with the
original neighbors throughout the sequence. The chase ends in the same
place, ones below their original neighbors.

The progression is standard; ones move down, twos move up. The flirt/chase
could happen with either set of neighbors, but I prefer how it is written
-- up around the original neighbors rather than down around the next
neighbors. The interaction with the next neighbors in A2 is potentially
confusing, so a teaching point at the beginning might be to have dancers
locate their current neighbor and find their next neighbor, and say you will
briefly interact with the next neighbor at one point in the dance.

"Swing-obsessed" and "everybody-must-be-active" dancers may find the
"lady
round two and gent drop through" figure to be unsatisfying. If you as the
caller set the tone for this figure to be fun, this sentiment won't
predominate. If you as the caller equivocate or are unclear, you may hear
from those folks I mention. I like how Kathy Anderson teaches "hooks" and
unusual figures with the attitude "now here's the fun part!"

One other note: a demonstration of the "lady round two..." figure is worth
much more than any description. And the twos have lots of opportunities to
flirt throughout this figure as well.

Good luck!

Jerome

...
  A1:
 Circle left
 Allemande right neighbor 1-1/2

 A2:
 Allemande left next neighbor once or 2x
 Gypsy 1x
 Ending gypsy below original neighbor, women facing out and men facing
 in

 B1:
 Chase "lady round two and the gent cut through; gent around two and
 the lady cut through"

 Active woman walks in a clockwise direction around the inactive
 couple above while the active man follows her until he can (and
 does!) cut through the inactive couple.

 The man now walks clockwise around the couple above, while the woman
 follows until she can and does cut through the couple.

 B2
 Actives balance & swing, end facing down

 I tried diagramming it and it seems like a backward progression? At
 the end of A2 it has progressed, but during the chase it goes
 backwards 2x so you end up with 1's/actives out at the top and
 2's/inactives out at the bottom.

 Has anyone danced and or called this dance- is it supposed to be a
 backward progression?

 If I change it minutely, having the  #1/active man in the chase
 sequence go around the same couple he just split- in other words
 moving him around the couple below rather than the next couple above-
 then it seems to work out as a single progression. If I called it
 with this change, does etiquette demand that I announce the change?

 So grateful to have found this list- I was looking at another dance
 http://blake.prohosting.com/austinbd/dances/chocolate_swirls.shtml
 wondering how to do a "come back cozy" into a cloverleaf and had
 given up finding the info- until I found this list with the Squeaking
 Wheel thread! Thanks!

 Thanks in advance!

 Alison Murphy
 Memphis TN

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 Jerome Grisanti
 660-528-0858
 660-528-0714
 http://www.jeromegrisanti.com 

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